STRUCTURED 1:1 PEER MATCHING FOR COMMUNITIES
Your community is stronger than you know.
We build the infrastructure to prove it.
Connect Networks weaves together the corners of networks that wouldn't normally interact — creating the conversations, relationships, engagement, and intelligence that make communities stronger.
THE PROBLEM
Every large network has a hidden flaw.
Alumni, employees, members, clients, volunteers — these groups are full of people with the knowledge, experience, and perspective to help each other. But left to their own devices, they cluster. The climate scientist never meets the policy lawyer. The new member never finds the veteran who's solved their exact problem. The corners of your network stay corners. And insight and opportunity don’t spread across the network. Connect Networks is the infrastructure that changes that.
Connections don't form on their own
People gravitate toward the familiar. The most valuable connections — cross-functional, cross-generational, cross-geography — require trust, concrete infrastructure, and cultural momentum to happen consistently.
Engagement has a ceiling
Events, content, and campaigns create moments. But between those touchpoints, connection fades — and every time it does, you're starting the re-engagement cycle from scratch.
Knowledge evaporates
The real-world intelligence of your network — deep experience, hard-won perspective, insight into what actually works — sits in the people themselves. It surfaces in hallway conversations, after events, in informal calls. And then it's gone.
The people who stay longest aren't your most committed.
They're your most connected.
The research is clear: Peer connection is the highest-leverage retention mechanism available — not because it feels good, but because of how it works neurologically and socially.
WHO WE SERVE
Your network. Our infrastructure.
Companies
Purpose-led businesses that want to deepen relationships across any group they care about — current and future employees, clients, thought leaders, partners, supply chains, or all of the above.
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Associations
Member organizations and trade groups where belonging goes deeper than a directory listing — built on real peer relationships that form year-round.
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Event Organizers
Summits, conferences, and gatherings where peer relationships start before the event, continue after it, and reach the people who couldn't be there.
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Non-Profits & Foundations
Volunteer-based and mission-driven organizations where connecting people to each other is how you deepen their connection to the cause.
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Alumni Networks
University and corporate alumni programs where members are among your most valuable relationships — as champions, donors, clients, and a talent pipeline.
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52%
increase in volunteer retention when paired with an experienced peer 1:1
Tipnis & Chen, INFORMS, 2025
2x
higher renewal rate in associations with highly engaged members
Community Brands, 2023
84%
of organizations report high "collaboration drag" working across functions — costing them revenue
Gartner, 2024
40%
of net new business at organizations with active alumni programs is touched by a former member
EnterpriseAlumni
All I have to do is say yes and show up. For someone at a fast-growth company, it's low investment and high return.
ELIZABETH LANDAU
COO, Green Portfolio
In this world of AI and tech, there's power in talking with someone who understands the things you're struggling with — someone who'll listen and push you with good questions.
SIAN CUFFY-YOUNG
Founder, Siel Environmental Services
Connect gives me direct access to the hidden experts — the doers — transforming global and local economies. I've found great people I wouldn't have ever come across, from Denmark to India to the U.S.
JEFF GITTERMAN
CEO, Gitterman Asset Management
EXPERT PERSPECTIVES
"Connect is networking that cares about the process as much as the outcome. Because of that, it gets to the outcomes we really care about."
ALEJANDRO CRAWFORD
Clinical Professor of Innovation, Bard College
"Sometimes all it takes is the right conversation — at the right moment — with someone who gets it. It's another way we're living our core value to grow stronger, together."
KATE WILLIAMS
CEO, 1% for the Planet
THE MECHANISM
One conversation.
Every two weeks.
Simple. Powerful.
Connect Networks matches your people 1:1 for structured peer conversations — not random networking, not mentorship. Personal, reciprocal exchanges between people navigating the same space from different angles. Fully automated. Zero staff burden.
TWO PEOPLE TALKING HAS ALWAYS BEEN WHERE CHANGE STARTS.
We just built a way to scale it.
Ready to unlock the world of impact and opportunity in your network?
Tell us about your community. We’ll build from there.