Streamline your program management with software for education foundations
Streamline operations, deepen stakeholder relationships, and maximize the impact of every dollar invested in student success and institutional advancement.
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A Guide to Evaluating Software Solutions for Education Foundations
Discover best practices and expert tips when evaluating foundation, grant, and scholarship management systems.
Build relationships with students, schools, and donors
Collaborate seamlessly with educators, schools, and nonprofits
Maintain open, real-time communication to support long-term educational outcomes.
Track correspondence and updates effortlessly
Log site visits, virtual meetings, and community engagement to build a complete picture of each partnership.
Enjoy a 360° view of a student’s or grantee’s history with your foundation
Access a full timeline of proposals, awards, reports, and student impact metrics.
Collaborate with peer foundations
Join a community of funders to co-create engagement strategies and share insights on what drives community engagement.
Simplify processes across your foundation
Use workflows to improve efficiency
Reduce administrative burden so you can focus more on your mission and the communities you serve.
Visualize data that matters to you
Visualize the data that matters most to your team, from student outcomes to donor engagement
Configurable workflows
Tailor workflows to match your organization’s unique processes, for seamless transition to the system.
Engage our subject matter experts
Our client support teams have years of experience in the philanthropic sector to help support best practices and streamline workflows for your unique foundation.
Streamline scholarship and grant applications and reviews
Build intuitive and easy-to-use grant applications
Allow applicants to leverage auto-save functionality, preview follow-up forms, and copy and paste responses with rich text formatting to save time.
Automatically import application and report data
Save time and reduce manual entry by seamlessly pulling in application and reporting details.
Engage external collaborators in the review process
Facilitate collaboration among review committees, allow for shared access to applications, notes, and evaluations.
Gain better financial oversight over educational programs
Examine relevant and real-time data analytics
Examine relevant and real-time data analytics to identify who is benefiting from your funding and measure the true impact of your grants.
Financial records accessible to all stakeholders
Produce regular financial reports that offer valuable insights into spending patterns and funding effectiveness
Track education budgets with precision
Monitor and manage your budgets and expenditures with 100% accuracy, making sure your funds are allocated appropriately.
Visualize financial and programmatic data together
Combine budget data with student achievement metrics to assess return on investment and inform future funding strategies.
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Here’s what people are saying
Our group is working on improving the clarity and transparency of our process after learning so much from our first grant cycle. We were able to distribute nearly $200,000 in our first year and are looking to increase our efforts moving forward. Thanks for helping us get started and make such a successful impact in the lives of children.”
Micheal Marz, GPD Group Employees Foundation
Choosing the right solution for your education foundation
Following our merger, we’ve combined the strengths of multiple platforms to offer a more robust and flexible suite of solutions, designed specifically for education foundations. Whether you’re focused on scholarships, grants, donor engagement, or strategic initiatives, we’re here to help you find the right fit.
Grants Management
Ensure your grantmaking process is efficient, transparent, and auditable from application to impact.
- Simplify applications & reviews
- Centralize grant data
Scholarship Lifecycle Manager
Ensure accuracy, compliance, and continuity across the student lifecycle
Create a unified ecosystem for managing your foundation’s impact.
- Add our fund accounting solution
- Add one of our grant management solutions
Fund Accounting
Designed to streamline operations across accounting, donor engagement, events, and more.
- Track grants and scholarships in CommunitySuite
- Track funding with centralized data. renewable scholarships
Let’s connect to find the solution that fits your organization best.
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Discover how our software solutions for education foundations can transform your program management and maximize your impact.
With powerful features customized to:
- Meet your team’s unique needs
- Save time
- Boost operational efficiency
- Improve your foundation’s decision-making.
FAQs
Why is scholarship management software important for education foundations?
Scholarship management software streamlines
How can foundations select the right scholarship management software?
Foundations should assess their specific needs, evaluate software features and scalability, check user reviews, and ensure compatibility with existing systems. Trial periods and demos can help them determine the best fit.
What should foundations look for in Schoalrship management software?
Foundations should seek out scholarship management software with user-friendly interfaces, robust reporting and analytics, scalability, customization options, and strong security features. They should also consider how well the software will integrate with their current systems and whether it offers reliable customer support.
How do foundations implement scholarship management software?
Foundations must first identify their individual requirements and select a suitable platform. Next, they should integrate it with their existing tech stack, train staff, and establish protocols for data migration and ongoing support.
What are best practices for foundations using scholarship management software?
Common scholarship management best practices include regularly backing up data, continually training staff, setting clear protocols, monitoring and evaluating software performance, and maintaining open communication with the software provider to receive support and stay abreast of updates.
What are common challenges foundations face with scholarship management software?
Foundations must often address several key challenges to achieve effective and efficient grant management, including data migration issues, integration difficulties, data security concerns, slow user adoption, training obstacles, and fragmented software update management.