--- title: "Customer Stories | AwardSpring" description: "Scholarship administrators from colleges, universities, foundations, and associations on what changed when they brought their programs to AwardSpring." canonical_url: "https://awardspring.com/testimonials" markdown_url: "https://awardspring.com/testimonials.md" --- Customer Stories # The people behind the programs, in their own words. All (32) Community & Technical Colleges (18) Universities (4) Foundations (9) Professional Associations (1) Showing all 32 stories - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/aiken-technical-college) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/big-bend-community-college) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/brunswick-community-college) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/central-carolina-technical-college) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/chattahoochee-technical-college) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/clover-park-technical-college) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/coastal-carolina-university) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/connecticut-association-of-realtors) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/eastern-west-virginia-community-foundation) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/germanna-community-college) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/grayson-college) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/highline-college) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/iowa-4-h-foundation) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/lake-washington-institute-of-technology) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/lenawee-county-education-foundation) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/life-university) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/metropolitan-community-college) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/mid-michigan-college) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/minnesota-north-college) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/new-haven-schools-foundation) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/north-kansas-city-schools-education-foundation) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/pierce-college) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/scholarship-foundation-of-northshore) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/shoreline-edmonds) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/sigma-tau-delta) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/south-haven-area-community-foundation) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/south-louisiana-community-college) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/southern-regional-technical-college) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/southwestern-oregon-community-college) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/thomas-edison-state-university) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/university-of-south-florida-foundation) - [ 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 ](https://awardspring.com/testimonial/wapakoneta-area-community-foundation) ## Start writing your own customer story. 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