We've made the
impossible > possible *
* That’s what Ceri Bibi-Jones at The London School of Economics said about Protopia.
We’ve made it simple for *all of your alumni* to volunteer and support future, current, and past students with advice and networking. This boosts engagement, strenghtens social capital, and fuels philanthropy.
All without another app to sign up for, learn, or to manage. Seriously.
Turning all of your alumni into volunteering mentors in 3 simple steps
Seriously, ALL constituents participate from Day 1. No new app. No recruiting!
Your community asks
Asking for help and connections can be hard and time-consuming. With Protopia, students, alumni, faculty, staff, parents, and other stakeholders simply submit a request for career advice, industry insights, or networking with certainty that their request will be answered by their community.
Our AI recruits
Nearly every alum has the capacity and desire to help someone walking in their footsteps. Protopia’s advanced algorithm searches (and improves) your data to find the best alumni and donors to engage — based on relevance, engagement goals, philanthropic priorities, and other factors.
Alumni engage
A small group of alumni receive a personalized email from your office and respond to the asker without signing up for or learning another app. If they decline, we will recruit the next best alum until we have one or more answers. Alumni volunteerism, simplified.
“I’ve been in alumni relations for a decade, and I’ve tried many different programs to meaningfully connect students and alumni. No other program or technology has delivered results like Protopia. Not only does it work, but it works on day one. It’s simple to launch and manage with a small team, and scales easily to affect a large student and alumni base. Our students and alumni love it.”
Robert Sullivan
Sr. Director, Alumni Engagement
Western Governors University
You've got questions
You’re probably thinking right now “It can’t be that simple.” So we’ve shared below some of the most common questions we receive from institutions ready to challenge the “engagement status quo.” Not seeing your question? Reach out to us and we’d be happy to find a time to answer yours.
Protopia is intentionally inclusive to let anyone in your community participate. Alumni, students, staff, faculty, donors, parents, and supporters can ask for help and get connected to your best experts.
Protopia actively monitors participation to block bad actors or inappropriate conversations.
Protopia’s technology actively monitors all engagement 24/7 not just for bad language but also bad actors and inappropriate topics.
Our moderation logic allows customers to approve, coach, or deny questions and responses.
There is no perfect data, keeping up with the on-going career and life changes of alumni is nearly impossible.
While our data requirements are small, our research also suggests that alumni are so starved to help someone walking in their footsteps, that they will respond even to questions based on outdated information.
In fact, over 45% of alumni that engage with Protopia update their employment, address, LinkedIn, or contact information via Protopia because they are proud of their accomplishments. And Protopia will share this updated data with you.
No. In fact, many of our customers use Protopia to complement and “boost” their mentoring efforts.
Protopia’s mission is to get alumni and donors to raise their hand, to re-engage with your institution. By making volunteering easier than ever before, we get them to help so that you can present the next volunteering opportunity to them.
Protopia can be launched in 4-8 weeks with a focus on two key activities: (a) branding and marketing and (b) data integration.
We will push you to get Protopia into the hands of students and alumni as quickly as possible while working with you to optimize and grow the program so that everyone on and off-campus can network with your amazing community.
Protopia is the “connection broker” by introducing the Asker to the best alum for their question.
Think of the “best alum” as a three-legged stool:
- Who’s the most-relevant alum for this question?
- Who has not recently (or never) engaged that we want to activate?
- Which alum (prospective donor) would fundraisers like to speak with?
Protopia identifies an “engagement team” of about 25-30 alumni that then receive the inquiry.
What our customers are saying
Curious to hear from institutional leaders that are using Protopia to scale alumni and donor engagement?
Are you ready for the future of Alumni Engagement?
Let’s find a time for Max & team to show you just how smart, simple, and scalable it can truly be for alumni and students to connect to one another for advice and support. We promise you’ll be inspired that artificial intelligence can be a force for good.
Protopia’s artificial intelligence technology makes it truly simple for everyone in your community to connect for advice and support. Without another app to sign up for or learn.
Delivering Alumni As A Service across the entire learner’s journey.
Welcome to the Future.
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