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Blackbaud Award Management
Formerly AcademicWorks

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What is Blackbaud Award Management?

Blackbaud Award Management is a solution that aims to transform institutions' student awards programs and revolutionize donor stewardship practices. Built for higher education institutions of all types and sizes, this cloud-based solution is designed to serve as a catalyst to…

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Scholarship management made user-friendly

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 25, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 a...
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Administrative Assistant
Blackbaud Award Management3 years of experience

BlackBaud Award Mgmt Keep us Organized!

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 24, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 wou...
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Director
Blackbaud Award Management1 year of experience

In a large public state university, we use this system to award over $600,000 annually - and we're only 1 college on campus!

Rating: 7 out of 10
February 18, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 abo...
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Ashley Milton
Program Manager - Other
Alumni Development Manager, College of Education
Florida State University
Blackbaud Award Management1 year of experience

AcademicWorks software is great to effectively manage all aspects of the scholarship application, review and awarding process!

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 17, 2018
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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-...
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Rhonda Seyfried
Manager - Other
Scholarship Manager
Tarrant County College
Blackbaud Award Management5 years of experience

AcademicWorks has changed the game!

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 17, 2018
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use AcademicWorks to manage the applications, renewal applications and payments for over 250 scholarships. We handle the review process as well for our donors to evaluate a...
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Rosisella Blakney
Director - Finance and Accounting
Scholarship Coordinator
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
Blackbaud Award Management2 years of experience

AcademicWorks works for us!

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 11, 2018
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
UC Hastings currently uses AcademicWorks to house our continuing students scholarship application and use it for the reviewing process. The Financial Aid department is the pri...
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Yma-Richel Nabong, MBA
Administrator - Other
Assistant Director of Financial Aid
UC Hastings College of the Law
Blackbaud Award Management2 years of experience

AcademicWorks User Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 8, 2018
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
AcademicWorks (AW) is being used to manage our scholarship process. It is primarily used by me here at the foundation but other departments and scholarship committee members h...
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Shelley Cotten
Program Manager - Finance and Accounting
Coordinator, Operations & Scholarships
McLennan Community College
Blackbaud Award Management3 years of experience

AcademicWorks Review - Tamika Davis

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 8, 2018
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
When I worked for the Arizona Community Foundation, I used AW daily. It was incredibly user-friendly and streamlined the organization's application process for over 80 scholar...
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Tamika Davis
Manager - Other
Director Of Individual Giving
Vermont Public Radio
Blackbaud Award Management4 years of experience

AcademicWorks WORKS for ECU.

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 8, 2018
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Our university uses AcademicWorks as our central scholarship portal - from application to review to award to collection of post-acceptance items like thank you notes across ou...
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Melonie Tyson Bryan
Administrator - Other
Director of University Scholarships
East Carolina University
Blackbaud Award Management4 years of experience
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What is Blackbaud Award Management?

Blackbaud Award Management is a solution that aims to transform institutions' student awards programs and revolutionize donor stewardship practices. Built for higher education institutions of all types and sizes, this cloud-based solution is designed to serve as a catalyst to improve student access…

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What is Blackbaud Award Management?

Blackbaud Award Management is a solution that aims to transform institutions' student awards programs and revolutionize donor stewardship practices. Built for higher education institutions of all types and sizes, this cloud-based solution is designed to serve as a catalyst to improve student access to awards and scholarship funds, create impactful stewardship practices, and enhance cross-functional visibility throughout the scholarship process.

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Scholarship management made user-friendly

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
January 25, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Blackbaud Award Management
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Keeps awarding data in one central hub
  • Allows users to easily review awarding history and application history
  • Easily customizable for the average user
Likelihood to Recommend
Blackbaud Award Management provides us with a user-friendly platform for organizing and awarding the scholarships that we oversee as a College. We have 100+ different scholarships that we award each academic year, and this software allows us to track award amounts, recipients, and letters of thank you that we share each year with our community donors.

BlackBaud Award Mgmt Keep us Organized!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
July 24, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Blackbaud Award Management
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Scholarship award organization
  • Donor reports
  • Award tracking
Likelihood to Recommend
Blackbaud Award Management is best suited for institutions that have many awards to track. From awarding amounts, student recipients, stewardship, reporting, etc this software is really helpful. If you are an organization with only a few awards, this software may not make sense and you may have a better tracking mechanism but for those, such as Universities, this software is very helpful.

In a large public state university, we use this system to award over $600,000 annually - and we're only 1 college on campus!

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
February 18, 2020
AM
Ashley Milton
Alumni Development Manager, College of Education
Florida State University (Education Management, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Blackbaud Award Management
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
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.

AcademicWorks software is great to effectively manage all aspects of the scholarship application, review and awarding process!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
July 17, 2018
RS
Rhonda Seyfried
Scholarship Manager
Tarrant County College (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Blackbaud Award Management
5 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
This is an excellent system for any college/university or scholarship provider that offers a large volume of scholarships to a high number of applicants. The price point might be a little high for a smaller school/provider and may not be worthwhile if their numbers are lower.

AcademicWorks has changed the game!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
July 17, 2018
RB
Rosisella Blakney
Scholarship Coordinator
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation (Philanthropy, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Blackbaud Award Management
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use AcademicWorks to manage the applications, renewal applications and payments for over 250 scholarships. We handle the review process as well for our donors to evaluate applications that are submitted. As a community foundation, we have several different departments but scholarships is the only department using AcademicWorks. This has streamlined our application process as well as it keeps track of all transcripts and payments.
Pros and Cons
  • Reporting - pulling reports in AcademicWorks is so simple and quick. Whether I am putting together a report of applicants for a donor, or the pulling the applicants from a specific school or major, I can do it by the click of a button.
  • Support - if I ever have questions or need help problem solving, the support desk is readily available.
  • Flexibility - we can customize pretty much every aspect of how the user experiences AcademicWorks
Likelihood to Recommend
We manage over 200 applications online, and could definitely take on more. If you only manage a low number - this would still be great software, but you may not need this. Also, if you have very specific applications, this might not be the best fit. However, if most of your applications are the same and just vary with some specific questions - this is perfect!

AcademicWorks works for us!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
January 11, 2018
YN
Yma-Richel Nabong, MBA
Assistant Director of Financial Aid
UC Hastings College of the Law (Higher Education, 201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Blackbaud Award Management
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
UC Hastings currently uses AcademicWorks to house our continuing students scholarship application and use it for the reviewing process. The Financial Aid department is the primary department that uses AcademicWorks. However, in the last year, Career Services has used it for the Public Interest Career Assistance Program grants they award by utilizing the application and review features.
Pros and Cons
  • Ease of set-up of the scholarship applications every year.
  • The report functionality allows us to be able to sort through the applicants easily.
  • The review functionality is user-friendly that anyone new to the system can easily learn it.
Likelihood to Recommend
AcademicWorks is well suited for large university campuses that have various scholarships across different departments. AcademicWorks can streamline the application, reviewing and awarding processes for these large universities. It is less appropriate for smaller colleges that have fewer scholarships and who choose award recipients manually.

AcademicWorks User Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
January 08, 2018
SC
Shelley Cotten
Coordinator, Operations & Scholarships
McLennan Community College (Education Management, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Blackbaud Award Management
3 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
AcademicWorks (AW) is being used to manage our scholarship process. It is primarily used by me here at the foundation but other departments and scholarship committee members have limited access. It has helped tremendously in streamlining our scholarship program and saves time and effort.
Pros and Cons
  • Customer Service - Although sometimes frustrating that reps are not immediately available by chat or phone, they usually do respond and resolve within two business days.
  • Implementation - Training and working with IT and primary users to get the most out of the system.
  • Listening - When users have suggestions to improve the program, AW actually listens and has an enhancement request list. If several users ask for the same thing, we are likely to see that addressed in an upcoming enhancement.
Likelihood to Recommend
[It's] Well suited for scholarship programs of any size. AW works one-on-one with the customer and helps address needs and workarounds to get the information needed.

AcademicWorks Review - Tamika Davis

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
January 08, 2018
TD
Tamika Davis
Director Of Individual Giving
Vermont Public Radio (Non-Profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Blackbaud Award Management
4 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
When I worked for the Arizona Community Foundation, I used AW daily. It was incredibly user-friendly and streamlined the organization's application process for over 80 scholarship opportunities. As a team, we were able to communicate through the software by using the notes features, efficiently qualify student submissions, and award scholarships to deserving applicants easily. Client service reps were responsive and knowledgeable, and the annual Client Conference was always a place to grow our proficiency with the product. I'd strongly recommend AcademicWorks to those interested in making scholarship administration a bit easier.
Pros and Cons
  • Customer service
  • Sorting of student applications per scholarship opportunity
  • The cycle review in order to set up the next application cycle was always great!
Likelihood to Recommend
Colleges and community foundations are particularly appropriate users of the product. I'd say small family foundations with scholarship offerings would be least appropriate for its use.

AcademicWorks WORKS for ECU.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
January 08, 2018
MT
Melonie Tyson Bryan
Director of University Scholarships
East Carolina University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Blackbaud Award Management
4 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Our university uses AcademicWorks as our central scholarship portal - from application to review to award to collection of post-acceptance items like thank you notes across our undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools/departments. We have over 900 individual scholarship opportunities on the portal and make close to 2000 awards annually. We have been on the product since 2014.
Pros and Cons
  • Easy to use reviewer portal for decentralized application review.
  • Easy to design general scholarship application.
  • Easy to use for data analysis/report generation.
  • EXCELLENT customer service from the vendor when questions arise.
Likelihood to Recommend
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