Partnering for Success

By developing deep partnerships with institutions and encouraging collaboration on shared services, we create a network effect where a single institution's success yields collective benefits for many.

Partnering for Success

Ed Advancement identifies opportunities for and supports significant investments in the operational and technical framework of our partner institutions by funding infrastructure improvements that are often cost prohibitive due to historic and systemic underfunding. We focus our efforts on helping to enhance processes in enrollment, student success, fundraising, and general operations.

We provide strategic, operational solutions that are both immediately employable, and financially and logistically sustainable for our partners. Our intention is for implemented solutions to drive growth (and/or reduce costs) ensuring institutions can maintain solutions within their operating budget over the long term. Whenever possible, we facilitate collaboration on shared services to minimize ongoing costs and leverage economies of scale.

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Bringing big ideas and solutions together for student success

Ed Advancement provides operations and technology driven solutions to HBCUs to help them better serve their students. These solutions increase enrollment, retention rates, and lead to higher graduation rates.

Our three-tiered approach includes:

Partnering with individual HBCUs on a multi-year basis to transform and strengthen their operational infrastructure.
Providing shared services across schools to minimize ongoing costs and leverage economies of scale to improve student and institutional outcomes.
Building an HBCU community of practice with resources, such as playbooks and toolkits, that extends to all HBCUs and the students that they serve.

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Our Solutions Provide Proven Results

The following initiatives offer examples of the kind of solutions we provide.

Tailored Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Solutions

Following a thorough discovery process and series of conversations with HBCU leaders, Ed Advancement developed a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) specifically tailored to address gaps in operations, technology and processes—from recruitment through alumni giving—that our partner HBCUs identified as priorities.

Increase Community Awareness with Raftr

Ed Advancement offered our partner institutions the opportunity to pilot a digital engagement platform designed to increase awareness of campus resources and foster a sense of belonging provided by Raftr. The campus-branded mobile platform simplifies message delivery to students and families in a way that is meaningful, collaborative, and social. Since launching the admitted student and parent/family solutions among seven pilot schools, over 1,000 student users have adopted the tool (more than two times higher adoption rates than Raftr university partners typically experience) and over 3,000 chat messages have been exchanged (more than ten times the chat messages that Raftr school partners typically experience).

24/7 Student Support Chatbot / SMS messaging

With three partner HBCUs, Ed Advancement piloted a managed service AI chatbot and SMS messaging service, provided by Mainstay, which provides students 24/7 support, saving hundreds of staff hours and getting critical information to students faster, improving the enrollment process — and the overall student experience. In the first quarter of using Mainstay’s tool, our three pilot institutions saved over 300 hours on average and their bots handled over 50,000 messages. We will extend the solution to ten additional institutions in the network in the coming year.