Core features
Online Community Software that Connects Alumni, Students, and Your School
Accelerate the growth of your online community to reach more people.
Focus on expanding your community instead of technology headaches.
Leverage our online community software that's easy to use and seamlessly woven together.
Connect all of your audiences with ease and leverage connections to benefit individuals and your school.
Alumni Connecting with Anyone
Facilitate natural connections based on common experiences, background, hobbies, interests, passions and even geography.
Other Alumni
Connect alumni with other alumni based on past shared experiences and current interests and passions, creating good will and promotion of your school.
Students
Connect alumni with students, creating opportunities for career advice, mentorships, internships and job opportunities.
Professors
Connect alumni with professors and programs directly or in private, secure groups.
Coaches
Connect alumni with coaches, teams and anyone who impacted them while students.
From Admissions through Advancement
Admissions can tell the stories of connection between students and alumni, giving another great reason for prospective students to choose your school.
Advancement can build upon the good will that is created with alumni connecting to one another and the school in powerful ways.
The Connection Tool In Action
Find connections based on criteria you select. This example comes from a medical missions organization.
Assemble Groups
As people find others with common interests they can form private and secure groups, either virtual or in-person. Groups can easily be formed—and more importantly—managed, by individuals in your community with little effort needed by your school. Maintain any level of control and oversight you desire.
Connect People
Connect members of your community to each other.
User Created Groups
Allow community members to launch their own groups inside your community site.
Groups Map
Display groups by map (or list) to help people find groups that best match their interest or location.
Control Privacy
Allow groups to control privacy settings for more controlled environments.
Get started managing your community with ease.
Memberships
Creating membership offerings that are easy to manage is a real challenge, not to mention connecting someone's personal membership with others like them. Cause Machine matches members together with others based on common backgrounds, interests, passions and even geography.
Fully Integrated
Memberships are fully integrated into the Cause Machine platform.
Managed by Members
Members are able to create and manage their own profiles, updating them as their lives and interests change.
New Member Experience
Create a customized new member experience for each of your membership tiers to offer an excellent experience.
Individuals + Organizations
Create memberships and directories for individuals and organizations who are part of your community.
Send Emails
Email sending tools have become extremely powerful and complex. Sometimes you just want to quickly send an email to your audience and need to segment that email based on how you define your community. Cause Machine's native email sender makes it easy for you to send and schedule emails with just a few quick clicks.
Compose Emails
Draft emails for your audience and send on your schedule.
Target Audiences
Narrow the audience for each of your emails based on their community interests and membership level.
Weekly Digests
Automate weekly digests to your community members to let them know what's new and relevant to them.
Email From Anywhere
Leverage the email sender throughout modules like events, courses, and more.
Customize the experience based on their unique preferences.
Engage Users
Technology has brought us great automation, though we are all still human and desire connection with each other. Cause Machine gives you the tools to take a large community and make it small by creating extremely intentional connections guided by you and the technology. You'll be amazed just how a little thought goes a long way to better engage your community.
Noise Reduction
Take out all the noise in your community to focus connections and content specific to each member.
Intelligent Guidance
Be the guide to your community to help guide them to a next step and some great connections.
Personalized Dashboard
Keep tabs on your personal resources while seeing new recommendations.
Engagement Insights
Drill down into each members engagement to learn how to better serve them.
Start building your online community
We'll help you set your platform up for success.
Leverage Integrations
Cause Machine helps you greatly reduce the systems that you need to engage your audience creating a full suite of member engagement tools. Many businesses find themselves also running backend business processes through tools like Salesforce, ActiveCampaign, MailChimp, and many others. Cause Machine works seamlessly with over 1,000 world-class platforms to help you better manage your community and run your business systems.
1,000s of Integrations
Cause Machine integrates with thousands of other systems to streamline your processes.
Contextual Insights
Leverage the Google Analytics integration to view reports directly in Cause Machine.
Expand Impact
Expand your impact by creating business systems that join seamlessly with Cause Machine.
Automate Marketing
Add additional marketing process that work automatically.
Monitor Analytics
Analytics and data are everywhere, but do they help you know your audience better, and do they help you make better business decisions for the future? At Cause Machine, we work to present you with reporting and analytics tools that help you become a greater expert at knowing your audience and giving you core insights to help you make future decisions to help you grow.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics are integrated directly into your site with contextualized views.
Dashboard Insights
Study community, membership, events, revenue and other site dashboards.
Trend Reports
Receive weekly trend reports giving you core insights into popularity, activity, and other trends.
Member Engagement
Dive into specific members to learn about their community involvement.
Job Board
Many communities feature a job board to help their members find that next great career step. The Cause Machine job board features tools to post jobs but also allowing member organizations to post their jobs to a shared job board. This creates a powerful tool for an aggregated job board that's managed by a team of people.
Community
Submitted
Allow other member organizations to submit and post jobs to your community job board.
Member Job Matching
Cause Machine helps match individuals to jobs of interest.
Jobs + Internships
Post full-time and part-time jobs along with internships.
Custom Applications
Build custom applications for jobs.
