The people behind the programs, in their own words.

Community & Technical College · South Carolina

Aiken Technical College

How a one-person scholarship office traded paper for high school outreach and grew from 100 applications per cycle to 500.

75 scholarships · 700 applicants · Customer since 2015

Community & Technical College · Washington

Big Bend Community College

How going paperless freed a foundation team to visit area high schools and lift its application rate by 94.3 percent.

95 scholarships · 900 applicants · Customer since 2015

Community & Technical College · Alberta

Bow Valley College

Three award competitions a year, run by two people

A Calgary college puts a panel of three on every application and gets funds out by month end, with 40 to 60 volunteer reviewers behind a two-person awards team.

Community & Technical College · North Carolina

Brunswick Community College

On responsive support, one-click reports, and deadline reminders that brought in more applicants after a rocky first cycle.

96 scholarships · 350 applicants · Customer since 2015

Community & Technical College · South Carolina

Central Carolina Technical College

How replacing spreadsheets and paper reviews won back reviewers who had stopped volunteering and made board reporting routine.

75 scholarships · 600 applicants · Customer since 2018

Community & Technical College · Ohio

Central Ohio Technical College

Three pools of money, two people, one link

A two-year technical college in Ohio awards about $1.2 million a year with no paper applications and no spreadsheets, and sees every award a student holds before adding another.

Community & Technical College · Georgia

Chattahoochee Technical College

How moving off fillable PDFs took the college from 82 applications a year to 900 and made the program a selling point for donors.

50 scholarships · 400 applicants · Customer since 2015

Community & Technical College · Washington

Clover Park Technical College

How a new administrator kept her first award cycle on track with fast training and now sets up a new cycle in a single day.

68 scholarships · 245 applicants · Customer since 2015

University · South Carolina

Coastal Carolina University

How Coastal Carolina replaced a manual scholarship process, more than tripled applications, and recovered two weeks of staff time every cycle.

130 scholarships · 2,693 applicants · Customer since 2022

Professional Association · Connecticut

Connecticut Association of Realtors

How a self-described non-tech person runs a growing association scholarship program with same-day support and a single online link.

2 scholarships · 250 applicants · Customer since 2016

Foundation · West Virginia

Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation

How a 25-year-old community foundation moved a fully manual process online mid-pandemic without losing its personal touch.

56 scholarships · 268 applicants · Customer since 2020

Community & Technical College · Virginia

Germanna Community College

On switching from an expensive, less friendly platform and watching applications climb on a system staff and students find intuitive.

87 scholarships · 1,000 applicants · Customer since 2021

Community & Technical College · Texas

Grayson College

How automating matching and review cut a coordinator's scholarship-season overtime from about 100 hours to 20.

325 scholarships · 1,200 applicants · Customer since 2019

Community & Technical College · Washington

Highline College

On leaving paper behind, finally understanding program data, and awarding applicants so quickly it hardly seems possible.

31 scholarships · 353 applicants · Customer since 2015

Foundation · Iowa

Iowa 4-H Foundation

How guided onboarding moved a statewide 4-H scholarship program online, raising applications while cutting copy costs and admin hours.

57 scholarships · 1,000 applicants · Customer since 2015

Community & Technical College · Washington

Lake Washington Institute of Technology

How a foundation team reclaimed at least 60 hours of administrative time per award cycle, half of it on building and auditing scholarships alone.

95 scholarships · 400 applicants · Customer since 2015

Foundation · Michigan

Lenawee County Education Foundation

How a county education foundation handling over 5,000 applications a year brought paper-shy reviewers along to a far simpler process.

160 scholarships · 5,000 applicants · Customer since 2015

University · Georgia

Life University

Why a financial aid director who left a homegrown system behind recommends the switch to any university still running its own.

32 scholarships · 552 applicants · Customer since 2015

Foundation · California

Long Beach Rotary Scholarship Foundation

Letty Totah has run the foundation's scholarship program for 13 years, most of them as its only staff member. Every year, roughly $500,000 in renewable scholarships reaches more than 200 students. Here is how one desk carries all of it.

Foundation · Texas

Mensa Foundation

"During judging season this used to be my whole week. Now it's about a day."

Jill Beckham, Director, Mensa Foundation

Community & Technical College · Nebraska

Metropolitan Community College

$3.7M in 2.5 weeks on the quarter system

Metropolitan Community College nearly doubled applicants and grew dollars transmitted from $4.4M to $7.3M with a five-person team.

Community & Technical College · Michigan

Mid Michigan College

On trading mounds of paper and monstrous spreadsheets for a process so smooth that student and reviewer complaints simply stopped.

30 scholarships · 400 applicants · Customer since 2015

Community & Technical College · Minnesota

Minnesota North College

How a small foundation managing 150 scholarships on paper reached its first international applicants and made reviewers ask for more work.

150 scholarships · 200 applicants · Customer since 2017

Foundation · California

New Haven Schools Foundation

How automating a 30-year-old scholarship program let a foundation redirect its energy toward donors and growing student funding.

73 scholarships · 450 applicants · Customer since 2015

Foundation · Missouri

North Kansas City Schools Education Foundation

How a universal, blind application took a district foundation from 189 applicants to 575 in a single year.

55 scholarships · 520 applicants · Customer since 2022

Community & Technical College · Washington

Pierce College

How a manager building a scholarship program from the ground up used platform data to win over donors, board members, and researchers.

27 scholarships · 159 applicants · Customer since 2017

University · Rhode Island

Rhode Island College

$1M+ to 400+ students in year one

Every foundation scholarship on one application, every review behind blind IDs.

Community & Technical College · North Carolina

Richmond Community College

"It's just made us more efficient."

Dr. Wendy Kelly Jordan, Associate Vice President for Development

Foundation · Washington

Scholarship Foundation of Northshore

How an all-volunteer foundation went paperless and set its sights on growing from 40 scholarships to roughly 300.

50 scholarships · 425 applicants · Customer since 2017

Foundation · Illinois

Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society

How an international honor society with volunteer judges spread across the globe consolidated scholarships, grants, and stipends in one system.

20 scholarships · 942 applicants · Customer since 2015

Foundation · Michigan

South Haven Area Community Foundation

How a small-town community foundation went from single-digit applications for its largest endowments to 52 and climbing.

25 scholarships · 100 applicants · Customer since 2022

Community & Technical College · Louisiana

South Louisiana Community College

How an online process helped one community college quintuple its scholarships and bring in ten times as many completed applications.

100 scholarships · 1,000 applicants · Customer since 2015

Community & Technical College · Georgia

Southern Regional Technical College Foundation

How a technical college heading into a merger doubled its application rate in the first cycle and cut awarding to mere minutes.

75 scholarships · 700 applicants · Customer since 2015

Community & Technical College · Oregon

Southwestern Oregon Community College

How a foundation that once pulled applications off a fax machine cut awarding time from two full days to a half-day.

62 scholarships · 359 applicants · Customer since 2015

Foundation · Colorado

St. Vrain Education Foundation

$418,000 across 233 awards, run by one person

A K-12 district foundation moved application, review and awarding onto one platform after the year the scanner broke.

Foundation · Texas

The Marti Foundation

$930K to students since January, from one desk

A private foundation retired a twelve-page paper application and runs on one person and one platform.

University · New Jersey

Thomas Edison State University

How a university built for working adults replaced spreadsheets and paper meetings with data it can put in front of donors.

30 scholarships · 1,000 applicants · Customer since 2015

University · Florida

University of South Florida Foundation

How a foundation awarding around $8 million a year keeps every department working from one centralized, Banner-integrated source.

500 scholarships · 16,000 applicants · Customer since 2015

Foundation · Ohio

Wapakoneta Area Community Foundation

A new customer's early read: quick answers, hands-on training, and one problem solved within the hour.

76 scholarships · 150 applicants · Customer since 2017

Foundation · Kansas

WSU Tech Foundation

134 to 650 applications, from a three-person foundation

A technical-college foundation with about $450,000 available to award and awards that post overnight.