The problem
The Alumni Association and the Foundation (the university's Institutional Advancement / giving side) were running on Blackbaud NetCommunity — a platform that had reached end of life, was no longer supported, and was extremely difficult to work with. Staff couldn't easily update content, and two distinct organizations were locked into one rigid, dated system.
What we built
One modern WordPress + Elementor Pro build that is technically two websites in one: a single install serves the Alumni Association (javelinaalumni.org) and the Foundation (javelinagiving.org) as separate, fully branded sites on their own domains, with automatic zone detection, per-domain headers and footers, and seamless single sign-on across the two domains. Easy for staff to edit, on 25+ custom Elementor modules built for this project. A drag-and-drop "Belltower" newsletter builder that lets staff design and publish the alumni e-newsletter in the same editor they use for pages. An events calendar that syncs itself from the university's official Localist calendar and Facebook. A clean, editorial stories/blog system. Deep Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT integration over the SKY API — alumni update their own records, RSVP to events, and give memorial and tribute gifts, all flowing straight into the donor CRM. A Distinguished Alumni program with an oral-history recording tool that captures honorees' spoken stories as audio. And a landing page that follows the sun: we shot original day and night drone footage of the Kingsville campus, and the hero video swaps from the daytime flyover to the nighttime one using real sunrise and sunset times calculated for the campus.
What changed
Two organizations stuck on a dead platform now run on one fast, accessible (WCAG 2.1 AA) site their own staff can edit. Alumni self-serve — updating info, RSVPing, giving — and it all lands in Blackbaud automatically. Events populate themselves. The newsletter ships from the same tool they build pages in. And it's unmistakably TAMUK.
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Questions we get asked
04Can one website serve two separate organizations on different domains?
Yes. HRMG built a single WordPress install that serves the Alumni Association and the Foundation as separate, fully branded sites on their own domains, with automatic zone detection, per-domain headers and footers, and single sign-on across both.
We're on end-of-life Blackbaud NetCommunity. Can we keep Raiser's Edge NXT?
Yes. We migrated the front end off NetCommunity to WordPress while integrating directly with Raiser's Edge NXT through the SKY API, so record updates, event RSVPs, and memorial and tribute gifts still flow into your donor CRM automatically.
Will staff be able to update content themselves after moving off Blackbaud?
Yes. The site is built on WordPress and Elementor Pro with 25+ custom modules and a drag-and-drop newsletter builder, so staff design pages, publish stories, and ship the e-newsletter without a developer.
Can our events calendar sync from the university calendar automatically?
Yes. The events calendar syncs itself from the university's official Localist calendar and Facebook, so events populate without manual re-entry.
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