Better Together: How Illinois Tech Unified Engagement and Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® to Scale Alumni Impact

Illinois Tech had the ambition: build meaningful, self-serve alumni engagement at scale. But disconnected systems and limited visibility made it difficult to translate engagement into measurable advancement outcomes.

In this joint session, hear how Illinois Institute of Technology re-imagined its digital engagement strategy with Almabase and connected it seamlessly with Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® to create a powerful engagement engine.

We’ll cover:

• The challenges that limited alumni networking and self-serve discovery
• How digital spaces and directories transformed peer-to-peer engagement
• How integration with Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT created clean data flows and eliminated manual work
• How the team measures engagement activity and turns insights into smarter outreach

If you’re looking to align engagement with advancement operations, this session offers a real-world blueprint.