Likelihood to Recommend This system has all the intentions of being fantastic. It is a great system if you have scholarships that are blindly rated or scored, or if you have multiple users with a few scholarships each. However, as a college with hundreds of scholarships that have 200-300 qualified students for each one, it is difficult to have a blind process. Plus, if the university gave our college the ability to edit some things, they would have to give those permissions to every person with a login. Needless to say, the system is not quite equipped for multiple users within one university who all have different editing privileges. However, as cumbersome as it has been to learn and manipulate for our purposes, it has allowed us to award more funds than any year prior due to the ease of having all of the student data in one place.
Read full review TeamRaiser is well suited for peer-to-peer fundraising activities, such as large pledge-based events like walks and runs or DIY fundraisers of many different types.
Read full review Pros Keeps awarding data in one central hub Allows users to easily review awarding history and application history Easily customizable for the average user Read full review Offers the ability to really customize a campaign on TeamRaiser. Provides milestones/badges that can be earned for participants. Provides custom pages that can be easily linked to a campaign. Gives the ability to send coaching emails to participants and for participants to send emails through the TeamRaiser system. Has a big support community. Read full review Cons Our school is unique in that we require a minimum of two references to be completed per applicant and they must be the right references. One must be a teacher/instructor if the applicant has been a student in the last 5 years and the others must be professional level references. To date there is no way for the system to identify and qualify students based on their references, so this process falls to us. Read full review Too many options so it can be hard to navigate. Requires a deeper HTML understanding to really get the most out of it. Would be better if the interface was similar to other original Blackbaud products. Read full review Likelihood to Renew While the price is a bit high, the software provides everything we need to effectively award and track scholarships and awards within our institution. The ease of use allows for everyday users and occasional users to both be able to access the information they need without wasting time or resources
Read full review Continued use will ensure an ongoing increase in this type of revenue and provides an alternative way of raising funds for our supporters.
Read full review Usability It can be overly complex and requires a deeper HTML understanding than most outside of IT have.
Read full review Support Rating I lean on our centralized Foundation for support related to Blackbaud Award Management. However, any time I've had a question they couldn't answer, they were able to get the support quickly and efficiently. I give an 8, versus a 9 or 10, because our centralized office has had some requests in for changes to the system that have not been made. Some parts of the system are not working for our purposes, and we've asked for some changes that should be doable. However, the time it takes to get universal changes made is quite long
Read full review Great and easy to access to get support to resolve issues immediately.
Read full review Implementation Rating Having a better understanding of product and objectives prior to implementation would lead to more success.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Blackbaud Award Management easily integrates with their other softwares but award management is more specific to scholarship and award needs and tracking. RE NXT is moreso for the fundraising and tracking side of things whereas Award Management is for the scholarship side of things. Making sure you're purchasing the right sofware for your needs is important.
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CrowdRise are easy to set up, already mobile friendly, have great interfaces, and are customizable, they lack some base capabilities that come with TeamRaiser, such as the ability to control the donation form, email capability, database syncing, badges/milestones, and custom pages. The
everydayheroPro system has great potential, and we use it for our smaller DIY campaigns, but its support knowledge bank and customization is still so limited and can be frustrating to use because of it.
Read full review Return on Investment We had a 24% increase in applications received after the first year We had a 10% increase in scholarship dollars awarded We had an increase in scholarship funds opened, including companies we weren't able to accommodate before. Read full review Introduced our constituents to DIY fundraising. Provided another revenue stream that provides nearly $100,000 extra a year. Gets our constituents involved in the cause in another way. We've found a niche by using TeamRaiser in companies. Has provided more donor interaction for lower-tier giving groups that might otherwise receive little communication and stewardship from us. Seen returning participants raise more money year-after-year. Read full review ScreenShots