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description: Education Cloud helps your institution and its alumni stay connected, while giving advancement teams a centralized location to manage relationships, drive engagement, and grow fundraising.
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# Alumni and Advancement

Education Cloud helps your institution and its alumni stay connected, while giving advancement teams a centralized location to manage relationships, drive engagement, and grow fundraising.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions with Education Cloud</td></tr></tbody></table>

- **[Set Up Alumni Relations](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_set_up_alumni_relations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Use Alumni Relations in Education Cloud to manage and engage with alumni from your educational institution in a centralized location.
- **[Set Up the Alumni Relations Console](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_set_up_the_alumni_relations_console.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Create an Alumni Relations app home page where a coordinator or manager can review alumni information and identify opportunities for engagement.
- **[Manage Alumni Users](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_manage_alumni_users.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Manage everything about your alumni users in Education Cloud, from their access to your Experience Cloud site to the account, profile, and engagement details on their records.
- **[Create an Alumni Community](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_create_an_alumni_community.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Education Cloud provides Lightning components that you can use in your Experience Cloud site to help create a community where alumni can connect with each other. Create a profile page for alumni to share information about their education and professional experience, and a directory where users can search for and connect with one another.
- **[Support Advancement in Education Cloud](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_support_advancement_in_education_cloud.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Use Education Cloud, Alumni Relations, Fundraising, and Data 360 to support the advancement, development, and fundraising operations in your institution.
- **[Fundraising in Education](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_fundraising_in_education.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Use Agentforce Education and Fundraising to support the development and fundraising operations in your educational institution.
- **[Corporate Relations](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_corporate_relations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Corporate Relations connects academic programs, employer relationships, and Outcome Management analytics to show how institutional partnerships translate into internships, employment, and student outcomes. Automated workflows indicate which partnerships drive workforce outcomes most effectively.