Scholarship management made user-friendly
We currently Blackbaud Award Management as the management portal for scholarship applications and funds. It allows us to have one central …
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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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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.
Blackbaud Award Management Competitors
- AwardSpring
- Reviewr
- eForm Scholarship
Blackbaud Award Management Technical Details
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January 11, 2018
AcademicWorks works for us!
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.
- 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.
- There could be improvement when attaching documents. Students sometimes get errors on uploading documents due to file names with certain characters.
- Room for improvement could be mobile functionality.
- It has provided a positive ROI in our scholarship management, without having to outsource this function in our department.
- The help we get from the support team is phenomenal that yearly set up can be done with a few days.
- For what we get done with it, it is a good investment.
AcademicWorks is the first product I have used for scholarship management. I have heard of other services but have not have had personal experience with them.
January 08, 2018
AcademicWorks User Review
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.
- 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.
- Customer Service - Has slipped in the last year, since merging with Blackbaud. Not as responsive or knowledgeable overall.
- Time saving.
- Easier for reviewers to score applications.
- Easier for references to submit their recommendations.
January 08, 2018
AcademicWorks Review - Tamika Davis
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.
- Customer service
- Sorting of student applications per scholarship opportunity
- The cycle review in order to set up the next application cycle was always great!
- Some users may like a bit more customization
- If it's not currently a thing, an "if, then" algorithm for the general application would be helpful
- Easier searching in their client resource portal
- Increase in new scholarship fund holders
- Streamlined qualification of applications
- Faster processing of awards
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January 08, 2018
AcademicWorks WORKS for ECU.
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.
- 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.
- At this time, there is little we have encountered that we would change.
- We have seen improved consistency in review and award of scholarships.
- We have seen a great increase in the number of annual applicants.
- One stop shop for students so we feel it is very customer friendly as our students and their families are our customers.