As the PeopleGrove team looks forward to 2018, we wanted to take a look back at both the highs and lows of 2017. Growth Our collective desire to give back and guide the leaders of tomorrow has been truly inspiring. Each and every day, we saw (busy) professionals all over the…

Education Technology company PeopleGrove to aggressively accelerate sales, marketing and execution of product roadmap SAN FRANCISCO — July 14, 2017 — PeopleGrove, an edtech startup which has built a software platform to connect students and professionals with advisers, coaches and mentors, has raised $1.8 million in seed funding. The funding…

Do your alumni only check in when they need a job? Check out how James Chang keeps alumni engaged all the time. I’ve summarized Chang’s presentation from CASE VIII on how he revamped the University of Oregon Alumni Association’s Duck Career Network over the last three years.

Stanford’s Annie Vleck recounted her experience upgrading Stanford’s alumni mentoring program. It’s full of helpful tips for running a successful mentoring program. “I wanted to reimagine a formal mentoring program that would do more for today’s students and alumni. I’ll share what I learned in the hope that it can help you at your own institution, regardless of the tools you use or the size of your program.”

Only 17% of grads who visited their schools career center report that it helped them. A recent Gallup report explains this low number by examining four factors that significantly influence how helpful students find career services. The bottom line? Simply visiting career services may help students, but having a positive, high quality experience there does much more for students’ success in later life and makes them more likely to give back to their school as alumni.

By Adam Saven, CEO, PeopleGrove My co-founder Reilly and I are fortunate. We have our problems, but they are Silicon Valley problems at best — South Bay traffic, long lines at Philz, etc. We grew up in upper-middle class families. We graduated from top universities without the cruel and unusual…