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Overview

PeopleGrove

4.7

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Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About PeopleGrove

PeopleGrove is on a mission to help every learner successfully navigate their next professional step in life. We connect every learner of your community. We give students and alumni a place to build confidence, knowledge, skills, and access to the people and networks needed to obtain that next step. This social capital delivers on the promise of higher education, ensuring students and alumni find lasting value in their degrees.

The platform gives administrators access to robust reporting. PeopleGrove allows students to favorite mentors, factoring into matching algorithms. As Learners use PeopleGrove, personalized recommendations for connections and career path exploration are surfaced through AI and Machine Learning. Additionally, managers can create documents to guide members, post articles, and facilitate communication via discussion boards.

PeopleGrove offers an application programming interface (API), which lets businesses integrate the system with several third-party applications including Google Maps, Zoom Video Webinars, Salesforce, Google Analytics, Microsoft Dynamics and more. Pricing is available on request and support is extended via knowledge base, forums, and emai...

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PeopleGrove Features

Popular features found in Alumni Management
Communication Management
Email Marketing
Event Calendar
Fundraising Management
Job Board
List Management
Member Accounts
Member Portal
Website Management
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Access Controls/Permissions
Action Item Tracking
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
Ad hoc Reporting
Admissions Management
Alerts/Notifications
Alumni Management
API
Application Management
Appointment Scheduling
Assessment Management
Calendar Sync
Candidate Management
Career Development
Contact Database
Content Library
Credit Card Processing
Curriculum Management
Customizable Branding
Customizable Fields
Customizable Forms
Customizable Reports
Data Import/Export
Discussions/Forums
Electronic Payments
Email Reminders
Email Templates
Engagement Tracking
Enrollments/Onboarding
Event Management
Event Scheduling
Event Ticketing
Fee Management
Financial Aid Management
For Alumni Associations
For Higher Education
Forms Management
Goal Management
K-12
Member Directory
Membership Management
Mentor/Coach Matching
Mentoring Program Management
Mobile Access
Monitoring
Newsletter Management
Participant Profiles
Program Evaluation
Progress Tracking
Prospecting Tools
Ratings/Reviews
Real-Time Notifications
Reminders
Reporting & Statistics
Role-Based Permissions
Scheduling
Scoring
Self Service Portal
Single Sign On
Student Information/Records
Student Portal
Surveys & Feedback
Third-Party Integrations

PeopleGrove Integrations

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Ellucian

Google Analytics 360

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PeopleGrove User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

69%

31%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.4

Value for money

4.4

Customer support

4.6

Functionality

4.4

Brian M.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2022

Excellent Vision with Features and Service, too!

Responsiveness! PeopleGrove may not give me the answers I want every single time, but the resources they provide and the personability of their team is top notch.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

PeopleGrove really helped me to add consistency to my formal mentorship program.

Cons:

PeopleGrove, or as we call it UofSC Mentorship Hub, has been responsible for so many meaningful connections, BUT it's just another website when it comes to student users. The barriers for students to register and complete their profiles have got to be lowered. Also, getting notifications and accessing the platform need to be more convenient and engaging. The word simplication comes to mind.

Reasons for choosing PeopleGrove

I was attracted to the collaborative nature of this initiative on-campus.

Vendor Response

Hi Brian! Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a review and sharing your experience with PeopleGrove. We're glad to hear it's helped to add consistency to your formal mentorship program. If you're up for it, our Product team would love to connect to better understand the usability challenges you've experienced and your ideas for simplification. We've got some projects underway to make accessing the platform even easier, so hopefully that will address your concerns around convenience and engagement. Thank you again for taking the time to leave a review. We value your feedback and grow from it!

Replied September 2022

Roshandra B.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2022

PeopleGrove Platform helps build students Social Capitol and Create and Ecosystem of Support

It has been a great experience overall, everyone is also very helpful and it is a great product with the potential to become great!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The ability to network and connect students with hundreds (potentially thousands) of professionals who can build their social capitol. The ability for students to connect and learn through the art of storytelling on how to be successful after college.

Cons:

There are a few functionality features that would be useful for me personally. For example: - Being able to toggle on and off admin approvals. - Shorter sign up options - More templates to help with upkeep of daily management of engagement on the platform - tailored job supports (e.g. only pulling state that I am in jobs) - integration with LinkedIn for job board - ability to easily share new job posts or events with the click of a share button that automatically makes platform users aware

Reasons for choosing PeopleGrove

Easiest implementation Good Price Point Best potential for growth and engagement

Reasons for switching to PeopleGrove

Wanted to have more functionality's and a more innovative updated platform

Vendor Response

Hi Roshandra, thanks so much for taking the time to leave such a thoughtful review. We love hearing how students are building social capital with PeopleGrove! Also appreciate you sharing your feature requests. We'll pass these along to the Product team for consideration, but please know you can share these with your Customer Success Manager at any time.

Replied September 2022

Victoria M.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

501-1000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2022

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Okay

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The support community for administrators has been helpful.

Cons:

Their reporting tools could be more relevant.

Vendor Response

Hi Victoria, thank you so much for taking the time leave a review. We appreciate your feedback and are glad to hear the support community has been helpful for you. Your feedback on reporting is timely, as we are currently working on updates to our reporting functionality. If you'd be open to meeting with our Product team, we would love to consider your insights as part of that development process. Thank you again for taking the time to share your experience and for being a PeopleGrove partner.

Replied September 2022

LeAnn M.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2022

PeopleGrove was our missing link!

PeopleGrove was the missing link on our campus for alumni career support AND the student career journey. While we've only had the software for a short period of time, campus partners have expressed excitement and great promise for what it will add to their career support programs. In addition to the alumni-to-student mentoring components, the software provides an excellent opportunity for us to better serve our alumni post-graduation. The customer support we received from the PeopleGrove team was top-notch.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The software is incredibly intuitive for both the user and admin. The user analytics provide critical data for our institution — informing our programming, funding priorities, and more.

Cons:

We are still in the process of integrating existing business processes. While there have been some challenges, customer support has been prompt and helpful.

Reasons for choosing PeopleGrove

The other companies had reached out to share more about their products during our exploratory phase with PeopleGrove, but their products offered too many functions with surface-level services. My previous institution was an early adopter of PeopleGrove, and several peer institutions had adopted it as well — these were key drivers as we sought the right software for our needs.

Vendor Response

Hi LeAnn. Thanks so much for leaving a review. We are humbled by your comments and thrilled to hear PeopleGrove is the missing link. We look forward to continuing to support you and your Learners.

Replied September 2022

Dori B.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed June 2020

5 Stars for PeopleGrove

Before PeopleGrove, we were not using a centralized mentorship platform for the whole university. Colleges and units were using their own devices (often Excel documents) to match and connect students with alumni. This platform allowed for a collaboration between the Career and Leadership Development Center and the Alumni Association to help streamline these programs and provide them with a tool to connect their alumni to alumni and alumni to students in a much easier and traceable way.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

PeopleGrove has an easy-to-use format on both the user and admin side. We have users of all ages so it was important that they could navigate the site as much on their own as possible. We also love the analytics functionalities which provide us with a very robust picture of all our users' experiences. We worked with both our Advancement Services team and our Registrar to help ease and quicken sign on for our alumni and student users respectively. Additionally, the PG team has been very responsive and resourceful by adding new features in response to changes in higher education and nationally. For example, their response to the COVID-19 pandemic was quick and well-executed. It prompted conversations on our end that we hadn't even thought about yet.

Cons:

None to note. Concerns or areas we wanted to grow or add to have always been heard and responded to by the development team.

Reasons for choosing PeopleGrove

We felt the price was reasonable, the site was easy to navigate for users of all ages, and the customer service was outstanding. It fit our immediate needs but also had some room for us to grow into other future goals we had.

Katie P.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed June 2020

Enhance your alumni offerings with PeopleGrove!

The customer service at PeopleGrove is top-notch, and inquiries and responded to within 24 hours. Answers to questions are specific, and examples are cited for additional context and understanding. PeopleGrove continues to develop innovative features to improve the platform, to include aesthetic updates and engineering improvements. Our choice to switch to PeopleGrove greatly advanced our department, providing better service to our growing alumni network.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The data and reporting functionality is robust, and it's user friendly! With ease, administrators can manage user accounts to include merging duplicate accounts, adding new information, and importing records.

Cons:

At times, the Bulk Email tool moves processes requests slowly when sending to 25,000+ users.

Reasons for choosing PeopleGrove

Our University selected PeopleGrove because the product offers the best experience for both administrator and user for a great price. The experience includes the software itself and the entire PeopleGrove team, to include its innovative leaders. We highly recommend PeopleGrove to universities and institutions looking to improve their offerings and provide a leading solution to students and alumni.

Reasons for switching to PeopleGrove

Our team was dissatisfied with both the service and product provided through our previous vendor. When switching to PeopleGrove, our department sought unmatched customer service and a more robust technology to offer alumni.

Carol B.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed June 2020

Peoplegrove is innovative and responsive

We were trying to solve a need to offer more easily accessible alumni-alumni networking and student-alumni networking -- on our constituents' terms and time. This provided that option and has been very well-received and resulted in numerous student success stories from connecting with alumni through our PG platform.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The Peoplgrove platform is easy to use, intuitive and customizable. But one of the things that I love the most about the product is that the company is constantly working on improvements, new features, new ways to analyze data, and innovative ways to use the product. The support team is quickly responsive when we have questions or specific needs to accommodate integration with other platforms.

Cons:

In my mind there are no cons. I think the one thing I didn't love from the start was the back-end administrator screen, but Peoplegrove has even restructured that in a way that it now offers easy viewing of pending approval items, meeting and connection requests, community balance and other important insights to help us identify areas on which we should focus efforts.

Reasons for choosing PeopleGrove

For several reasons: (1) the product was more customizable and open to continuing innovation based on user feedback; (2) the design is clean and easy to look at; (3) user-friendliness appeared greater: (4) the sales team did not use high pressure sales tactics -- they wanted it to be the right product for us on our timeline.

Michael M.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed August 2020

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We really didn't have a good method to easily connect alumni and students. PeopleGrove has help career and alumni move from "gatekeepers" of alumni contact to facilitators of alumni engagement. They have build a tool that helps us drive engagement and then provide the data so we can can use to better coach students and see how alumni engagement impacts outcomes.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

PeopleGrove helped our school design a flash mentoring system that worked well for our industry-based model for alumni engagement and student coaching. It is a full-featured product that, if set up properly, can reduce the time need to encourage engagement. I think their team really understands the different ways students and alumni want to use a platform to connect and designed the product to helps career and alumni teams alike facilitate and monitor that engagement.

Cons:

Since we have been using the product for several years, I have seem them build many new features that we cannot not always fully utilized. They now have many different features that can used to facilitate and monitor engagement and tracking; however, it is sometime hard to understand what may have been phased out or new features that are replacing others.

Reasons for choosing PeopleGrove

The pricing and focus on flash mentoring over structured mentoring programs.

Reasons for switching to PeopleGrove

The other products were too expensive and were focused more on formal mentoring rather than "flash" mentoring.

DeMario B.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

10000+ employees

Used other for less than 2 years

Reviewed June 2020

Highly recommend

Overall, I've had a good experience with PeopleGrove. They've been great partners to my institution.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

PeopleGrove's software is a leader in the mentorship software field. I am deeply impressed the company is committed to optimizing its product for its customers and users. Specifically, I like the new student homepage. It makes it easier for students to make a connection with a potential mentor by providing templated messages, real-time coaching, and a quick snapshot of mentor's profiles. It's both visually-pleasing and functional. I can't wait for the same update for other user types. Another key feature I like is the Messaging tool. I've seen this feature upgraded incredibly since I've been using the product. I also love as an admin, I can all interactions between the users which is helpful for analytics, offering support throughout, or having to intervene if things are not going as they should. I also want to give a quick shoutout to the implementation and customer support teams! They are prompt, efficient, and always delivers a high level of customer service!

Cons:

The only pain point that I have about the software is the notifications feature. I wish there was a better way to notify users they had unread messages and etc. I almost which everyone got a text message to notify them -- and also when they sign in the platform, there's like a popup message (banner) that notifies them again. Other than that, PeopleGrove has been very receptive to any other feedback I've given regarding product optimization ideas.

Kevin T.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed June 2020

PeopleGrove is revolutionizing mentorship

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

PeopleGrove provides excellent customer service that helps customers customize, learn, and better implement their programs. Their products team is also constantly researching, learning, and implementing ideas and suggestions that customers provide to enhance the product for free or at a reduced rate. There are constant updates to not only the look and feel but as well as the functionality and smoothness of the program. [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] has created a culture revolving around passionate and hard-working employees who care about their customers and their products.

Cons:

The only con that I have is that there were not straight forward onboarding lessons that teach you how to use every tool.

Reasons for choosing PeopleGrove

customer service and product quality

Reasons for switching to PeopleGrove

Their customer service was horrible and all they cared about was sales and given more permission and access to the university

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