St. Edward High School

About

Founded in 1949, St. Edward High School is an all boys 9-12 school in Lakewood, Ohio, United States.The school has an endowment of 14 million USD, annual fund goal of 1 million USD and a current capital campaign of 22 million USD, with an annual enrollment of 950 students 13% of the school’s 17,000 alumni donate to the annual fund.

Founded in November 1552 by Royal Charter, with 380 pupils.

Today, Christ’s Hospital is an independent co-educational boarding and day school of around 900 pupils annually, aged 11-18.

Christ’s Hospital is unique for a UK independent boarding school in that it is a charity boarding school and offers more bursary places than other schools.

73% of pupils receive bursary support

11% pay nothing at all for their education

32% receive 90% or more support towards fees

The school boasts many famous alumni (known as Old Blues), such as Barnes Wallis, Roger Allam, Jason Flemyng and Holly Walsh, and general alumni involvement is essential as fundraising is a major part of keeping the school going.

Small Team, Big Impact

ABOUT

CHALLENGES

Reaching and better communicating with its alumni (Old Blues) with updated and relevant contact information.

Helping to manage and scale its career-related activities. Career guidance has become a big focus for the school and its alumni, with a relatively new careers department and they were searching for a way to leverage the experience and networks of Old Blues to help current students.

Managing their volunteers with an old spreadsheet system which was very time consuming and ineffective.

Enabling alumni to contact each other directly and cut out the school as the middle person (time consuming) while still complying with data protection guidelines.

Losing alumni contact information and ability to contact them owing to GDPR.

Case Study

St. Edward High School

About

Founded in 1949, St. Edward High School is an all boys 9-12 school in Lakewood, Ohio, United States.The school has an endowment of 14 million USD, annual fund goal of 1 million USD and a current capital campaign of 22 million USD, with an annual enrollment of 950 students 13% of the school’s 17,000 alumni donate to the annual fund.

Gina Skillings is the CHOBA Manager at Christ’s Hospital. Her predecessor had seen Graduway and been impressed but hadn’t taken it further. When Gina started her position, it was clear that they needed some kind of sign-in platform to enable people to contact each other for careers advice and in a social networking capacity, to share events, to offer mentoring and more. Using the research that her predecessor had already done, she had a good starting point to move the conversation.

After some pitches by various companies, they felt that Graduway covered all bases - directory, careers, photos, events, mentoring. “Other companies we looked at mainly pitched the career element, but we wanted something a lot more inclusive for all elements of our activities.” And choba.org was born.

JOURNEY TO GRADUWAY

Case Study Christ’s Hospital

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St. Edward High School

About

Founded in 1949, St. Edward High School is an all boys 9-12 school in Lakewood, Ohio, United States.The school has an endowment of 14 million USD, annual fund goal of 1 million USD and a current capital campaign of 22 million USD, with an annual enrollment of 950 students 13% of the school’s 17,000 alumni donate to the annual fund.

Created a symbiotic relationship between the careers and alumni departments who are using the platform to easily find alumni who may be able to help with career-related questions, advice, or activities.

Provided a secure environment to post events and photos of events as they are only accessible by signing up to the platform.

Simplified communication through the use of the automated digest and platform messaging.

Eliminated the need for long, drawn out procedures to connect people with the challenge of the privacy laws. The directory is an open resource through which to connect those who have registered and are willing to help.

Overall, helped the alumni and career teams of 1 to better scale their efforts by leveraging limited resources through automated tools and a product that encourages platform users to network with one another.

Gained back over 1,000 people over the past year that had been lost through GDPR as they signed on with updated information, approval to receive emails, and their individual agreements for how they are willing to help.

RESULTS

2364 USERS

1855 MESSAGES

1488 MENTORS

152 EVENTS CREATED

Case Study Christ’s Hospital

St. Edward High School

About

Founded in 1949, St. Edward High School is an all boys 9-12 school in Lakewood, Ohio, United States.The school has an endowment of 14 million USD, annual fund goal of 1 million USD and a current capital campaign of 22 million USD, with an annual enrollment of 950 students 13% of the school’s 17,000 alumni donate to the annual fund.

Gina Skillings,CHOBA (Christs’s Hospital Old Blues Association) Manager,Christ’s Hospital

Graduway has been a full campus

solution for us covering both

our alumni and career efforts.

It removes us as the middleman

and allows our platform users to

contact one another directly - all

within data protection guidelines!

Case Study Christ’s Hospital