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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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In a large public state university, we use this system to award over $600,000 annually - and we're only 1 college on campus!
AcademicWorks software is great to effectively manage all aspects of the scholarship application, review and awarding process!
AcademicWorks has changed the game!
AcademicWorks works for us!
AcademicWorks User Review
AcademicWorks Review - Tamika Davis
AcademicWorks WORKS for ECU.
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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 Competitors
- AwardSpring
- Reviewr
- eForm Scholarship
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(1-5 of 5)Scholarship management made user-friendly
- 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
- Emergency Assistance Application
In a large public state university, we use this system to award over $600,000 annually - and we're only 1 college on campus!
- 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!
- 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.
AcademicWorks works for us!
- 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 Review - Tamika Davis
- 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
- none