SOMERDALE, N.J. – Alumni Channel, a web provider of online alumni communities for schools and other non-profit organizations, announced today that Ka Ipu Kukui Fellows of Kahului, HI, is relying on the company’s online community solution to develop closer relationships with its alumni.
Charen Kepler, Executive Director, made a commitment to begin implementation of the Alumni Channel for their online alumni community. Ka Ipu Kukui Fellows alumni represent an alliance of thousands of KIK graduates across the United States and around the world. With a growing base of graduates, the high school wanted to cultivate stronger bonds with and among alumni that would lay the foundation for fundraising in support of critical programs such as scholarships and the endowment. KIK needed a technology solution that would enrich its existing website while reducing costs associated with direct mailings. This would enable the school to provide an interactive, customized experience for each visitor, including opportunities to connect, view school and class events, and eventually make online donations.
To this end, KIK deployed the services of Alumni Channel for online community building. The school now has a single point of entry that allows alumni to self-maintain their profile information, which can then be used to update the master donor database.
“Organizations face a real challenge in keeping connected with alumni who, after graduation, scatter throughout the world,” said Chris Gehringer, president of Alumni Channel. “KIK is taking a leadership position in how it uses technology to give its alumni – regardless of whether they live in the area or the Far East – an easy way to stay involved. Having a professional appearance to your alumni organization is just one more step in building lasting relationships with alumni/donors.”
Empowering Fellows through Alumni Channel
With Alumni Channel, KIK will be able to replace a static website with an interactive online community and enhanced electronic communications. Like most other organizations launching a new website, you need to get people to visit the site. With only a few email addresses on file for its alumni, the school will embark on an integrated marketing campaign to increase awareness and introduce the benefits of registering on the new site. Included in KIK’s service is a new website address that can be used on all marketing to promote use of the site. Through this effort, the number of contacts will increase over time.
To visit the Ka Ipu Kukui Fellows’s Alumni Channel, go to alumni.kaipukukuifellows.org.
About Ka Ipu Kukui Fellows
Ka Ipu Kukui Fellows, is a nonprofit, community-based program created to identify and develop young leaders in Maui County.
About Alumni Channel
The Alumni Channel online alumni system is designed to increase alumni connections through a secure directory that helps connect an organization’s entire membership. Alumni Channel offers alumni a community of their own to contact each other, plan reunions, share stories and photos, and enables the parent organization/school to maintain and build an alumni database providing valuable alumni contact information. Schools have the ability to not only announce upcoming events and campaigns on the site itself, but also customize and send mass e-mails, run reports, export data, and distribute surveys. Founded in 1998, Alumni Channel is headquartered in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. For more information, visit www.alumnichannel.com.