The Alumni Professionals Community
A private network of alumni-relations professionals from 1,100+ institutions — sharing the playbooks, templates and conversations you can't get anywhere else.
4,200+
alumni-relations professionals
1,100+
institutions represented
12
active Slack channels
Free
to join, forever
What's inside
Real conversations, ready-to-use playbooks
The community is built around the questions alumni-relations teams actually ask each other — and the templates they wish they had.
Private Slack
Daily discussion across 12 channels — strategy, tooling, events, fundraising.
Monthly meetups
Live virtual meetups featuring leading alumni offices, on the record and off.
Workshops
Hands-on sessions: campaign teardowns, segmentation strategies, donor cultivation.
Resource library
Templates, RFP examples, board update decks and event playbooks.
Speaker series
Quarterly conversations with veteran directors of alumni relations.
Annual benchmark
Aggregate benchmarks on giving, engagement and tooling across 2,000+ institutions.
Inside the Slack
Twelve channels, zero spam
We moderate hard. Every channel is moderated by a working alumni-relations professional, and every member is verified before they get in.
Learn about the verification processAnnual plans, board updates, roadmaps.
Campaign tactics, donor cultivation playbooks.
Reunions, virtual meetups, run-of-show templates.
Stack discussions, integrations, automation recipes.
Mentorship programs and student-alumni matching.
Regional chapter governance and leadership.
Newsletters, email design, segmentation.
Cross-border tax, currency and visa questions.
Upcoming meetups
Roundtables that don't feel like webinars
Live, off-the-record conversations between practitioners. Bring a question, leave with three answers.
Thu, 12 Jun
Capital campaign teardowns: what worked, what didn't
with Dr. Tan Mei Ling, Universiti Malaya
Tue, 1 Jul
Building a chapter network across 12 cities
with Priya S., Taylor’s College Alumni
Wed, 16 Jul
Modernising a boarding-school alumni directory
with Mohd Faizal, Garden International School
Tue, 5 Aug
Workflow automation for two-person alumni teams
with the Alumni Connect product team
“It's the one Slack I actually check. The campaign teardowns alone have paid for our subscription a dozen times over.”
Priya Subramaniam
Alumni Relations Officer · Taylor’s College Alumni
How to join
Members-only, but the gate is fair
We verify every member to keep the conversation high-signal. Membership is free, forever — both for Alumni Connect customers and the broader profession.
- 1Apply with your institution email and role.
- 2We verify against the institution's public directory.
- 3You receive a Slack invite within 48 hours.
- 4Optionally introduce yourself in #welcome.
4,200+ practitioners already inside
Join the conversation that's shaping our profession
No vendor pitches. No recruiter spam. Just alumni-relations professionals helping each other do better work.
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