The database knows your alumni. Kannect gets them to show up.
Your institution's alumni system is a system of record. It holds names, class years, and giving history, and it is priced for the national office. It does not run your chapter's events or reach the people who moved. Kannect is community management software for the chapter doing the actual work, from $23/mo.
7-day free trial. A card is required, which keeps Kannect spam-free. Cancel anytime.
What Kannect commits to your alumni
100%
Reach. Every chapter announcement reaches every alum who opted in, not the ones a feed selects.
2%
On dues and events. Chapter dues and reunion tickets at 2%, not 10–14%.
$23
To start. Per month billed yearly, instead of an enterprise contract and a sales call.
5 min
To launch. Set up your chapter and invite your first alumni the same day.
One platform instead of four
Most chapters run on an enterprise platform they cannot afford or a Facebook group they cannot control, a ticketing site for the reunion, and a spreadsheet of email addresses from 2019. Kannect retires all of it.
Full community platform
Events, directory, dues, and messaging from $23/mo, with no sales call.
Chapter discussion
A space your chapter owns, where posts are not ranked or sold against.
Reunions & chapter events
Ticketed events at 2%, with reminders and check-in built in.
Member directory & dues
One connected member record across dues, events, and class year.
The chapter does the work and gets none of the tools
The national office buys a system of record and the chapter gets read access to it. Meanwhile the chapter runs the events, chases the dues, and keeps the community alive, usually from a personal inbox and a spreadsheet nobody else can open.
Priced for the institution
Enterprise alumni platforms start in the hundreds per month and require a demo and a contract. A volunteer-run chapter is never getting approval for that.
Contact lists that went stale
Alumni move, change jobs, and change emails. A list built once and never updated reaches fewer people every year.
Leadership turns over
Chapter officers rotate every year or two, and the member list, the login, and the history leave with them.
Everything an alumni chapter needs to stay active
One platform for events, dues, communication, and a directory that stays current between reunions.
Reunions and chapter events
Happy hours, game watches, and class reunions with RSVPs, ticketing, reminders, and check-in.
Messages that reach alumni
Push notification and email to the whole chapter or to one class year. Delivered, not ranked.
A living alumni directory
Class year, industry, city, and employer, with a directory alumni update themselves instead of you chasing it.
Chapter dues and giving
Dues billed on the schedule you set, with renewal reminders that go out without anyone remembering to send them.
Class years and interest groups
Organize alumni by class, region, industry, or affinity group, and message each one precisely.
Records the chapter owns
Members, dues history, and events held by the chapter, and handed to the next officers without losing anything.
Start with one chapter and grow into the whole network
A single chapter can start this week without national office approval. When more chapters join, run them under one parent association where each keeps its own members, events, and leaders, and leadership sees across all of them.
No approval needed to start
One chapter, one card, seven-day trial. Prove it works with real alumni before anyone has to make an institutional decision.
Roll up to the association
Add chapters under one parent organization as the network grows. See how sub-communities work for the full architecture.
Three steps to a chapter that stays active
Set up your chapter
Start a 7-day free trial and build your chapter's home in under five minutes.
Bring in your alumni
Import your list, organize by class year and region, and let alumni keep their own details current.
Keep them showing up
Run events, collect dues, and send updates. Alumni get every announcement in the Kannect Community Hub app.
Independent. Verified. Built for you.
Two things make Kannect different from the tools alumni chapters usually settle for.
Independent and founder-run
Bending Spoons, a holding company known for buying consumer apps, raising prices, and cutting support, now owns both Meetup and Eventbrite. Kannect is independent and answers to the communities it serves, not to an acquirer.
Verified and spam-free
Every organization joins through a credit-card-verified trial that stops bots and fake listings. Your alumni know the chapter contacting them is the real one.
A chapter that stays alive between reunions
Of alumni reached
Every announcement reaches every alum who opted in. No algorithm decides who hears about the reunion.
On dues and tickets
Chapter dues and event tickets at 2%, not the 10 to 14% a ticketing site takes.
Around your alumni
No advertising near your chapter. Your alumni network is never monetized.
Alumni chapter questions, answered
Can a single chapter use Kannect without the national organization?
Yes. A regional chapter or class group can set up on its own and start running events the same week, with no approval from the national office and no migration project.
Can we run several chapters under one association?
Yes. Run each chapter with its own members, events, and leaders while leadership keeps a view across all of them. See our sub-communities page for how the architecture works.
Can we collect chapter dues and event fees?
Yes. Collect dues, reunion tickets, and event fees through Kannect. Paid events, programs, and memberships carry a 2% platform fee, and nonprofit donations are processed at 0%, plus standard Stripe fees.
How much does Kannect cost?
Plans start at $23/mo billed yearly, or $29/mo month to month. Every plan includes a 7-day free trial, and a credit card is required to start it, which keeps Kannect verified and spam-free.
Give your chapter a home alumni come back to
Start your 7-day free trial. A card is required to keep Kannect spam-free, and you can cancel anytime.
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