Name: Blackbaud Award Management
Rating: 7 (18 reviews)
Author: Blackbaud

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Blackbaud is a leading cloud software company powering social good. The vendor says they believe the world will be a better place when good takes over. Additionally, the vendor says they work every day to power an ecosystem of good, providing innovative software, services, expertise and data intelligence to more than 35,000 nonprofits, foundations, corporations, education institutions, and the individual change agents who support them. The Blackbaud portfolio is tailored to the unique needs of vertical markets, with solutions for fundraising and relationship management, digital marketing, advocacy, accounting, payments, analytics, school management, grant management, corporate social responsibility, and volunteerism. Serving the industry for more than three decades, Blackbaud is headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina and has operations in the United States, Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.

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I heavily use it to manage our scholarship. However, our financial team will not link it with RE or FE to truly make it a better integration. I have yet to understand and truly figure out a 4 year renewal scholarship effectively despite numerous attempts

renewals are impossible to understand
bulk communication updates for the offer emails

keeping all the info centralizes is great
lack of training has hurt continutity

At my institution, we are using Blackbaud Award Management across all 16 colleges and independent departments to manage our scholarship awards process. After being audited about 2 years ago, we were informed that we were not doing a good job allocating the scholarships we had at the university. The Foundation set out to find a product that would allow us the ability to award every scholarship in our portfolio with ease. My college awards the highest dollar amount out of this system and the largest number of awards, so we were particularly interested in how it worked and made our lives easier when awarding nearly $600,000 to 220+ students.

This platform integrates our current university image, so students are not confused when they open the page. It was completely customizable so it had the same look and feel as our own university websites, which helps when switching to a new platform.
This system automatically matches students to scholarship opportunities based on their existing data in the university system! This saved us a TON of time from having to individually look at student records and manually match them to scholarships across our colleges and units.

We have had a few cases where we awarded a student a scholarship out of a single fund, and then later decided to increase that scholarship. Unfortunately, once a student has been assigned to a fund, we can't re-assign them or increase their amount - so we've had to clone opportunities in order to increase funds. This has been a headache when it comes to post-acceptance, because it prompts the student to complete the post-acceptance again as if it were a new award.
With cloning opportunities, we are unable to rename the opportunity so it stands out. For instance, if I want to clone an opportunity so I can award the same student an additional amount, I have to "guess" on the drop down menu because the name of the opportunity is exactly the same as the original. It would be great if the dropdown menu gave some additional context into whether it was a cloned opportunity, which aid year it correlates to, etc.

At the College level, it has helped us ensure that we award every dollar we have available for scholarships. In the past, we had a hard time finding qualified students for some of our difficult scholarships - but this system allowed us the ability to identify those students easily.
I was not part of the team who purchased this software, so I can't say what the direct return on investment is, however, I know that the university needed a centralized system such as this because some colleges were not awarding their funds at all. For that reason, I can imagine that the return on investment has to be high!

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We currently Blackbaud Award Management as the management portal for scholarship applications and funds. It allows us to have one central hub that store student applications and data, as well as award amounts and awarding history for scholarships. It's very easy to look up all the past recipients of a particular scholarship, or to view a specific student and see all their past applications and scholarships within the portal.

Keeps awarding data in one central hub
Allows users to easily review awarding history and application history
Easily customizable for the average user

The interface that students see is not the most user-friendly
Exporting data sometimes results in weird symbols showing up throughout text in place of quotation marks or commas
Support can be hit or miss

Auto-match feature for scholarship matching
Ability to run reports
Ease of organization structure

Donor Stewardship - Ability to store and pull thank you letters to share with donors
Easy access to historical record of past awards allows us to determine when we may need to "ask" for more funding to increase impact
Allows for quick answering of questions from donors regarding history or recipients

Scholarship Management
Award Management
Historical tracking of awards
Record keeping of thank you letters for donors

Blackbaud Award Management has been a huge asset in helping us keep track of scholarships and awards. Without it, and having numerous scholarships in multiple colleges, it would be a challenge in keeping track of things ranging from award amounts, students, distributions, amounts available to award, etc. This software helps us keep everything organized in one place.

Scholarship award organization
Donor reports
Award tracking

Increased emphasis on donor stewardship through the software
Connecting reports in RE NXT
More filters on forms

Award Tracking
Organization of Awards
Donor Reports

Allows us to see where we can increase scholarship awards.
Allows us to see what has gone un-awarded which can trigger a needed conversation.
Allows us to provide easy reports to donors and development members.

We use AcademicWorks to award all scholarships offered to students by the Tarrant County College Foundation. With an enrollment of 52,956, Tarrant County College is the sixth-largest college or university in Texas in 2017. AcademicWorks provides the software to effectively manage the process of applying, reviewing and offering a large number of scholarships for students in an ever-growing number of programs, to our student body.

All colleges and universities have differences in the way scholarships are awarded at their schools. AcademicWorks listens to the individual needs of each college/university/scholarship provider and will either add system enhancements or help users to find ways to best utilize the system to meet their needs/requirements.
The AcademicWorks help desk is very good about support. They are timely in contact and work to resolve issues quickly and effectively.
AcademicWorks has worked closely with our IT Department to ensure that the imports and the system will work efficiently despite changes and updates.
Students need to only complete one application to be automatically matched to hundreds of scholarship opportunities. This is a very efficient use of the applicant's time and efforts to apply for scholarships.

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.

There are many factors that go into an ROI and it is hard to determine the impact that the AcademicWorks System alone has had. However, I can say that the scholarship committee reviewers that used to help evaluate students using our previous system much prefer the ease of doing the reviews in the AcademicWorks System. This is good because at times some of the committee reviewers have transitioned to become scholarship donors.

Blackbaud Award Management
Formerly AcademicWorks

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What is Blackbaud Award Management?