The platform that turns your history into alumni engagement.
When content feels generic and communications feel transactional, alumni disengage quietly.
By bringing alumni management tools and your institutional archive together in one platform, SocialArchive gives every alumnus something personal and something worth coming back for. Built on real stories, real memories and the history you already have, SocialArchive helps every alumnus feel genuinely connected to the institution that shaped them.
ENGAGE
When content is about them, everything changes.
Generic emails get ignored. A photograph from someone's year group, a film from their sports tour, a story from someone they sat next to in class…that gets opened, shared and remembered.
SocialArchive uses facial recognition, smart segmentation and your archive to deliver content that feels individual to every alumnus. Not a broadcast. A conversation. You decide what each person sees, based on their year group, their activities, their history with your institution. Every communication feels relevant because it is.
The result is an alumni community that actually engages, not because you asked them to, but because you gave them something worth engaging with.
A SINGLE THREAD THROUGH A LIFETIME
From their first school photograph to the story they share decades later
SocialArchive keeps every alumnus connected to the institution that shaped them, across every chapter of their life.
The strongest donor relationships are not built in a campaign. They are built across a lifetime of moments like these. Alumni who feel genuinely connected do not just give once. They become loyal supporters, passionate advocates and, in time, your most meaningful legacy givers.
CONNECT
Engagement comes before generosity. Always.
The institutions that see the strongest alumni support are rarely the ones with the most sophisticated fundraising operations. They are the ones whose alumni feel genuinely connected. That connection starts with giving alumni something of real value, long before any ask is made.
- ✦ Share archive content that reconnects alumni with the moments that shaped them
- ✦ Invite them to add their own memories, record their story in their own words, or identify faces in historical photographs
- ✦ Let them explore virtual tours of spaces they remember
When alumni see themselves in your archive, something shifts. They are no longer recipients of your communications. They are part of your story. And alumni who feel part of something are far more likely to support it.
Community contributions
"That's Dr Whitmore in the back row. He retired in 1979. Wonderful teacher."
Campaign · Rugby Tour Appeal
Sent to: Rugby players · Classes 1978–1983
South Africa Rugby Tour, 1978
We have been going through our archive and found some incredible photographs from the tour you went on back in 1978. Take a look, share your memories and help us identify some of the faces we do not yet know.
This year's 1st XV are heading on the same tour. If you have a message for them, or would like to help make it possible for more students to go, we would love to hear from you.
The most effective fundraising campaigns start with a memory.
INSPIRE
When an alumnus has spent time reconnecting with their history, exploring photographs from their era and reading stories from people they knew, a fundraising appeal does not feel like a cold call. It feels like an invitation to be part of something they already care about.
SocialArchive makes it possible to build campaigns around the moments that matter.
Here is what that looks like in practice:
Send a former rugby player photographs from a tour they went on, then invite them to support the current squad doing the same.
Your archive is the most powerful fundraising tool your institution already has. Connect every ask to a memory, a person or a moment.
MANAGE
The alumni management platform built around your community.
SocialArchive gives your alumni community somewhere to belong and your team the tools to manage it. Full control over who sees what, seamless integrations with the systems you already use, and everything in one place.
For your alumni
A branded, always-on space where your community lives.
Every alumnus gets a personalised experience built around their history with your institution. Your archive, their story.
What your alumni can do
- ✦Access personalised archive content and their own That's me gallery
- ✦Comment on photos and content
- ✦Identify people in photographs
- ✦Share their own memories of people, places and moments
- ✦Explore virtual tours of spaces they remember
- ✦Build and update their own biography
- ✦Receive notifications for new content, comments and replies
- ✦Search the entire archive for content featuring them, people they knew and the moments that mattered
- ✦Message other community members (easily switched on or off)
For your team
Everything you need to run and grow your alumni community.
Whether you are a school, college or university managing 500 alumni or 50,000, SocialArchive gives you the tools to work efficiently without needing a large team behind you. Less time on the time-consuming work, more time on the relationships that matter.
What your team can do
- ✦Integrates with the systems you already use, including Raiser's Edge and Veracross
- ✦Segment your database and target communications by cohort, year group or donor status
- ✦Publish and schedule content to the portal, social media and beyond
- ✦Create user groups and control exactly who sees what
- ✦Moderate submissions, comments and identifications before they go live
- ✦Accept donations and event payments through Stripe and PayPal
- ✦Dedicated onboarding support and a team that knows your sector
- ✦And more
Works with
Using a system that is not listed? Talk to our team and we will see what we can do.
PUBLISH
Beyond the portal. Tools to engage your community everywhere.
Most development and advancement teams are stretched. Finding the right photograph for a social post, pulling together a slideshow for an event, creating a video for a campaign… each one takes time that most teams simply do not have. With SocialArchive, every item in your collection is ready to be used, shared and published.
Reunions & Anniversaries
Planning a reunion or milestone anniversary?
Whether it is a 50th, 100th or 150th anniversary, a school reunion or a major institutional celebration, SocialArchive turns your history into an unforgettable community moment and a lasting digital legacy.
- → Turn a one-night event into a year-round engagement opportunity
- → Create a time capsule where content can be saved and retrieved at a later date
- → Leave a lasting legacy asset your community can return to forever
"SocialArchive has truly surpassed our expectations. As we celebrated our 400th Anniversary, we aimed to establish a lasting legacy that both our current alumni community and future generations could cherish.
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!"
Latymer Foundation, Hammersmith
Social Media
Publish & ScheduleDirect publish to Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn. Schedule in advance, edit the copy before it goes live, or export to post yourself. Your archive keeps your channels full. Throwback Thursday sorted for the rest of the year.
Video Creation
Built in minutesEnter your criteria and SocialArchive builds a video from your collection. Download, share or embed on your website. Canva integration available for fully branded output.
Event Experience
Bring the archive into the roomTurn any gallery into a slideshow for the room. Place a QR code at your next reunion and alumni can browse a curated gallery from their era, or upload their own photographs directly into the archive there and then. The event that builds your collection while it is happening.
FEATURE SPOTLIGHT
Spoken Stories. Capture every voice in your community.
Spoken Stories is SocialArchive's built-in video and audio capture tool. Invite anyone in your community to record in their own time, from anywhere, using guided prompts or open-ended questions. Every submission is automatically transcribed, catalogued and searchable in your archive, ready to share, repurpose and deploy whenever you need it.
Alumni Stories
Capture from anywhereRecord alumni stories and memories without the pressure of scheduling or geography. Whether they live abroad or simply have a busy diary, alumni can record remotely and in their own words. Set up a device at your next reunion and capture memories there and then. The event becomes part of the archive before the evening is over.
Careers Library
Build your libraryBuild an on-demand careers library that grows with your community. Alumni share their journey in their own words, searchable, transcribed and available to students and fellow alumni whenever they need it. A permanent, useful resource rather than relying on one-off careers events.
Fundraising & Impact
Inspire generosityShare bursary recipient stories directly with donors. Record testimonials that demonstrate impact and bring campaigns to life. Use it for major donor stewardship, legacy giving appeals, annual fund campaigns or reunion fundraising. One simple tool that gives every campaign a human voice.
GET IN TOUCH
Strengthen connection. Inspire support.
Whether you lead a development office looking to re-engage a dormant alumni community, planning a major campaign or simply looking for a better way to manage your relationships, we would love to show you what SocialArchive can do. Built on shared memories and your institutional history, it drives genuine engagement and long-term support.
- No obligation demo, tailored to your institution
- Speak to a team member who understands your sector
COMMON QUESTIONS
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know about SocialArchive's alumni engagement and community management capabilities.
