Scholarship management made user-friendly
January 25, 2023

Scholarship management made user-friendly

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Blackbaud Award Management

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

Do you think Blackbaud Award Management delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Blackbaud Award Management's feature set?

Yes

Did Blackbaud Award Management live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Blackbaud Award Management go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Blackbaud Award Management again?

Yes

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.

Using Blackbaud Award Management

  • Scholarship Management
  • Award Management
  • Historical tracking of awards
  • Record keeping of thank you letters for donors
  • Emergency Assistance Application
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.