The alumni engagement platform powered by your archive.
SocialArchive helps schools, colleges and universities preserve their heritage, reconnect their alumni and drive authentic engagement. Use your shared history to build relationships that last.
- Integrates with Raiser's Edge, Veracross & more
- Permission-based photo sharing
- UK GDPR compliant
Preserve and protect your history
Bring decades of photos, magazines, films and documents into one secure, searchable home. Your archive becomes the foundation for everything your alumni see.
Impact: Nothing lost. Everything findable.
Why it matters: Protecting your past builds pride, connection, and confidence in your future.
Drive alumni engagement
Every alumnus gets a personal gallery of the photos they appear in, updated automatically as your archive grows. They name old classmates, record memories with Spoken Stories and invite friends, reaching the people you've lost touch with.
Impact: at The Latymer Foundation, SocialArchive drew 100,000+ gallery views and helped reconnect 596 lost alumni.
Why it matters: Sustained connection builds belonging and lifelong advocacy.
Manage your community in one place
A built-in CRM with email, segmentation and events, so a small team can run everything from one platform.
Already using Raiser's Edge, Veracross or Potentiality? SocialArchive integrates, so data flows back into your main database.
Impact: One platform. One login. No more copying data between systems.
Why it matters: a small team can run a big community without losing the personal touch.
SocialArchive®
- Digital archive
- Database & CRM
- Email & newsletters
- Events & reunions
- Data & analytics
- Branded platform
- Integrations
Boost alumni giving
Lead reunions, appeals and anniversary campaigns with the photos and memories that feature the people you're asking. Nostalgia opens the door before you ever mention giving.
"One alumnus who found his school photos on SocialArchive has since pledged a legacy to the school."
Why it matters: when people see themselves in your story, they're inspired to give back.
What our schools say
SocialArchive has truly surpassed our expectations. The platform's automated facial recognition feature has been a hit, allowing our community to easily find and reconnect with pictures of themselves and their friends. True to its name, SocialArchive is transforming our archive into a vibrant, social experience!
We've been able to use the system to preserve the history of the different schools which make up today's BCS and are using that history to reconnect with more of our alumni than ever before!
SocialArchive® has not only allowed The Duke of York's Royal Military School to start storing our history for posterity, but is already proving to be a powerful tool to help us better engage with our alumni.
SocialArchive has given us that platform, to bring our archive to life, making it interactive, accessible, and scalable for the future. Seeing so many people sign up and explore in just a short time proves how powerful our history is when combined with the SocialArchive!
From key school events and everyday classroom creativity to historic snapshots and unforgettable milestones, our Rowan SocialArchive brings together our alumni in one nostalgic, ever-evolving space.
Who's in your archive?
See how SocialArchive could reconnect your alumni community in a short, no-obligation demo.
Book a demo here, or alternatively send us a message using the form and a member of our team will be in touch.
Frequently Asked Questions
Here are some of the most common things people ask us. For more tailored questions, please visit the FAQ section on each of our individual pages.
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SocialArchive is an alumni engagement platform built around your school's history. It brings your photos, documents and stories into one secure, searchable archive, then uses them to reconnect alumni through personal galleries, shared memories, events and communications, all in one place.
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No. Whether you have a fully catalogued digital archive or boxes of photos and memorabilia, SocialArchive meets you where you are. The team can scan your collection, migrate an existing digital archive and handle the full setup, so you can launch without a huge project on your side.
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Alumni join through an invitation or a sign-up link on your branded platform. Once they're in, the photos and content they appear in are gathered into a personal gallery automatically, and they're notified whenever new photos featuring them are added.
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Access is permission-based, so you control who can see each gallery or photo. Consent preferences and redaction tools let you respect opt-outs, and the platform is UK GDPR compliant.
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Yes, and it's one of the most popular ways to launch. Schools including The Latymer Foundation (400th anniversary), Rowan Preparatory School (90th anniversary) and Cornell University (40th reunion) launched SocialArchive as part of their celebrations.
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SocialArchive is priced as an annual licence, with storage charged based on the size of your archive. There's no charge per user, so your whole alumni community can join without your costs going up. Scanning, full-service setup and engagement plans are tailored to your school. Book a demo for a quote based on what you need.
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