Customer Stories
The people behind the programs, in their own words.
Showing all 32 stories
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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University · South Carolina
Coastal Carolina University
How a university replaced its homegrown application, doubled its pool of qualified applicants, and raised fund utilization.
130 scholarships · 2,100 applicants · Customer since 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Community & Technical College · Nebraska
Metropolitan Community College
How a quarterly awarding college nearly doubled completed applications and picked up 60 scholarship acceptances within an hour of one text campaign.
160 scholarships · 10,000 applicants · Customer since 2015
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Community & Technical College · Washington
Shoreline & Edmonds Community Colleges
Why a foundation manager who led a platform switch at one college was glad to find AwardSpring already running at her next.
64 scholarships · 1,075 applicants · Customer since 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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