SmartSimple for Scholarship Management

Across all markets, our clients know that their SmartSimple system can be configured to manage a diverse array of business processes. Take grants management, for instance. Great organizations and people alike use the SmartSimple platform to allocate resources to all sorts of causes and initiatives, from social to environmental.

Scholarship management has long been a crucial organizational pillar for many of our clients in grant giving space. We have learned several valuable lessons in creating the SmartSimple Scholarship Management System in order to address the unique and specific needs of our clients.

Here’s how the Scholarship Management System works:

Online Registration
  • Students register and maintain their own profile.
  • Confirm eligibility via high school lookup (or enter a new high school profile).
  • Applicant and relevant high school staff enjoy online access from any browser. 
Online Application
  • Students upload and input information and submit their application.
  • Teachers and other high school staff can then add recommendations and supplementary information to a student’s application (e.g. Class rank, SAT scores).
Review Process
  • High school nomination committee nominates applications from their high school to the foundation for consideration. (A per high school per year application quota decided by the foundation can be enforced to limit the number of applications from each high school.)
  • External reviewers can be assigned to applications and an additional Lead Reviewer can be assigned who would have the ability to nominate an application to the foundation.
Post-Award
  • Once approved, an applicant logs in, selects the university they would be attending, and electronically signs the scholarship agreement.
  • After the agreement is submitted, the applicant becomes a scholar. Annual support worksheets are created with deadlines and reminder emails (as per the business requirements) which the scholar needs to submit for each university year.
Want to learn more about our new Scholarship Management System? View our demo video below, email us at sales@smartsimple.com or visit our main website for more information.


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