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Hey Alumni & Advancement group members! You might have seen our email about our new Community experience. We’d love for you to join us there if you haven't already! It’s a more modern and easy-to-navigate space, and the central hub for ...
Tammy Bartolet
Hi, Wondering if anyone has found a good way to add captions to an image on the website. We've typed them on the images, used tables (unsuccessfully), etc. This would really elevate our site and we don't know how others are handling this. ...
Sharmistha Mohapatra
Our Alumni Engagement and Communications Team has encountered an issue with the registration form for Reunion & Homecoming 2025. Although a support ticket was submitted, the team was advised to log this as an enhancement request in ...
You could create your own, role-based, review step for those who have selected items that do not require commerce. ...
Juan Lopez
Our latest Anthology Advancement Roadmap Webinar is now available on-demand! Catch up on the exciting innovations, upcoming releases, and how our solutions are helping higher ed advancement teams strengthen alumni engagement, ...
Juan Lopez Category Alumni & Advancement Aug '25
Sarah Lewis
When a new record is added to our database (we use Banner), we have a system set up to push that new record into Encompass. We are a small school and even so when the senior class was rolled this summer from student to alum, new records should ...
Juan Lopez
Anthology Advance roadmap update promo tile. White text, including the link to register, QR code, and stock photo of people having a conversation Whether you joined us at AT25 or couldn’t make it, our upcoming Anthology Advance: ...
Juan Lopez Category Alumni & Advancement Jul '25
Juan Lopez Juan Lopez Aug '25

[Reminder] Advancement Solutions Roadmap Update – Aug 12 at 2PM ET

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Tammy Bartolet
Hi, We recently closed our campaign and our CEO wanted to share the news article to his LinkedIn profile to spread the word. The URL does not populate in LinkedIn as it does for Facebook. Is there a workaround for this? We don't want to have ...
Sharmistha Mohapatra
We are currently investigating the issue with non-member records and exploring the best approach for updating Alumni records, as well as addressing the client login challenges. A big issue for us during major events is when alumni ...
This is a huge problem for us at Missouri State University Foundation, as well. We have identity checkpoint turned ...

@Sharmistha Mohapatra @Natalie Seever

Thank you for sharing your experiences here. I really appreciate the ...

Stephanie Folds
Hello! I am with SUNY Oswego's University Advancement operation, and we are working on a mailing campaign to collect updated email addresses and other information from our alumni. The three subsets we plan to target are those alumni ...
Juan Lopez
Thank you to everyone who joined our latest Office Hours session, Unlock More from Encompass: Tips & Tricks . We hope you came away with helpful ideas to make your day-to-day work in Encompass more effective. ️ Catch the recording here: ...
Juan Lopez Category Alumni & Advancement Jun '25

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