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What is AwardSpring?

AwardSpring is a powerful, intuitive, and smart scholarship management platform that reduces work for admins and creates powerful connections between donors and applicants by getting more dollars to more students. Our easy-to-use software and outstanding customer support have empowered hundreds of institutions to award their scholarships in less time, and with less effort, than ever before. AwardSpring’s happy customers include: · 2-year community, junior & technical colleges. · 4-year colleges & universities. · Community, education & other non-profit foundations. · Corporations & professional associations.

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AwardSpring’s scholarship management platform is simple, powerful, and easy to use. Our thoughtful, intuitive design simplifies your application process and empowers you to focus on what really matters - less paperwork, more awarding.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

AwardSpring separates ourselves from our competitors by offering an outstanding combination of features with intuitive usability at an incredible value. On top of all this, we provide best-of-breed onboarding services and lifetime customer support and training.

Our platform is perfect for any 2-year or 4-year higher education institution's financial aid or advancement office, as well as non-profits operating independently from a college or university, that have anywhere from one to thousands of scholarships to offer to their constituents.


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Year Founded
2015
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Chicago, Illinois
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@AwardSpring
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Kurt R.
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Co-Founder and CEO of AwardSpring | Making scholarship administration simpler and more efficient

Recent AwardSpring Reviews

HC
Hugo C.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"✅ Simplify Your Scholarship Administration Process!"
✅ Simplify Your Scholarship Administration Process! ✅ Great onboarding, great training resources (pdf, images, videos), ability to create, filter,...
Samantha H.
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Samantha H.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Best Customer Service & Very Efficient!"
The customer service from AwardSpring to both staff, students, and scholarship administrators is truly special. Our scholarship applications incre...
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As an Administrator, I find AwardSpring to be exceptionally user-friendly, which simplifies my work. The students also find the application process...
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AwardSpring Demo - Administrator Dashboard
As a scholarship administrator, your initial view gives you quick and meaningful insights into your current scholarship / award cycle and gives you a great jumping off point to perform you tasks at hand.
AwardSpring Demo - Administrator Follow-up Queue
AwardSpring always has productivity and effective communication in mind - hence our "Follow-up Queue". This one-stop shop allows you to quickly and efficiently manage the open items between you and your applicants.
AwardSpring Demo - Scholarship Application
Your students (or other applicants) want the process to apply to be intuitive and efficient. Our highly customizable application allows you to create a simple, straight-forward process to create an outstanding application experience.
AwardSpring Demo - Reviewer View
Keeping with our theme of intuitive and efficient design, your reviewers will love the ease of which they'll go through their formerly complex and time-consuming job of scoring and providing feedback on your applicants. Now they can move quicker while making more effective decisions thanks to con...
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Karin Hammann D.
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What do you like best about AwardSpring?

I love that they are always available to answer our questions-especially during the crazy scholarship season! So many issues arise during the process, and you need answers on the fly. We are so happy with how they respond and are at the ready. I also love the way that they help to teach us how to fix and prevent issues in the future. They give you the tools you need to succeed and have your scholarship program grow and flourish. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AwardSpring?

Honestly, there is really nothing that we dislike as we have been able to adapt to any issues and incorporate them into our program. I think that we have also found that some of the new adaptations are actually more efficient! We have found that suggestions and questions that we have are heard and really looked at to see if it might be a better way. We never feel dismissed and we are heard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AwardSpring:

If anyone is questioning it, let me tell you to just do it! It has added so much to our program and we feel that we have made the right choice. With 44 funds and an additional 15 through our affiliate we found it to be easy, user friendly and gave us a real boost in our applicants and quality of the application. It is also a great way to highlight your donors who make your program successful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AwardSpring solving and how is that benefiting you?

We began to realize that the paper application is not ideal, especially because it isn't relevant to our intended audience. We needed to make an impact on high school or college students and that meant evolving and realizing that our intended audience lives online. You apply for jobs online, apply for colleges online and most students and young adults begin and end their search on a computer. In order to keep up with the times, we had to move to the online platform. We have found that we have been able to remove some of the responsiblilty of the school system with sending transcripts and have been able to really count on the letters of recommendations to be authentic. Every year, there was a question to the LOR's and if they were real. We had no way to follow up to question that authenticity but with the link being sent to the person writing the letter, it was impossible for the student to manipulate the letter. The benefits that we have realized is that it has really allowed more students to apply and has really cut down on the process of printing and we are so pleased to be able to login in at any time and check something with ease. It has also been great as we are all working remotely and meetings were so easy as we could all be viewing the same application at the same time without having to print a lot of copies and snail mail them.In the past, the deadline, while true, seemed to drag on due to the mail and delivery of applications. With this system, we are able to "turn the application off" at 5 pm and that is that! It was refreshing to not be worried what was coming in the mail three days after the deadline. We were also challenged with students not submitting complete applications and the question as to whether we as an organization was fair in the decision-making process. The ability to demonstrate fairness was easy with our customized scorecards, and really made the whole process fair and equitable. Numbers don't lie and it was apparent that the students that were at the top of the pack were there because of their accomplishments, not because of being a favorite of a staff member or reviewer. We are also very excited about the donor features. While a lot of our donors are no longer with us, their family members are. This is helping us to bridge the gap. We love that they are able to login and help us to introduce the donors to the students and their families. We feel that it is important that the students know about the donors and why they created funds. We have students that have received multi year scholarships and have really wonderful relationships with our donors who contributed to their college success. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Kurt Reilly of AwardSpring

Wow Karin! Thanks so much for all these kind words. We thrilled to hear that you're finding both the platform's ease of use and our team's responsiveness to be huge wins for your organization. If there's anything we can do to help you or your team out - you know where to find us :-)

HC
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What do you like best about AwardSpring?

✅ Simplify Your Scholarship Administration Process!

✅ Great onboarding, great training resources (pdf, images, videos), ability to create, filter, and export multiple reports, a great way to match multiple scholarship programs with various criteria by one application account, reviewing process makes it easier for the reviewer, and ultimately notifying recipients & tracking their communications is a plus!

✅ AwardSpring is constantly working on updates, they have a community forum for support and quick ticket response with questions!

✅ Our applicants, administrators, and reviewers have expressed a user-friendly experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AwardSpring?

It might be nice to have an API that would keep our recipient and email communication student data in sync with our current CRM - Hubspot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AwardSpring solving and how is that benefiting you?

Efficient administration process and student communication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AwardSpring?

I really like how quick and friendly your customer service is. Award Spring is also very easy to use and intuitive. It has simplified our rigorous, manual scholarship process and I could not be any happier. Award Spring makes updates and the website gets better without many unresolved bugs. I also like that management follows up with you and tries to address any concerns you may have. The reports have also been very helpful for data management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AwardSpring?

Sometimes the timing of the updates is bad for us because it's around the beginning of a scholarship cycle but if we have any issues, Award Spring usually helps us work them out. I also wish it was easier to provide applicant scholarship feedback. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AwardSpring solving and how is that benefiting you?

Award Spring is helping us solve not having to keep paper documentation and to keep things more condensed and private for our students. It is also easier to run reports and easily sent data to other departments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Kurt Reilly of AwardSpring

So glad to hear you're finding our software to be simple and intuitive. And we love to hear that you're pleased with our service team - we think they're the best :-)

We completely understand that by updating the software every 6-8 weeks or so we sometimes run into bad timing with application cycles opening and/or closing. We've made changes in the last few weeks that allow us to roll out software changes with no downtime, and we're always running webinars on how our platform changes from release to release, so let us know if there's anything we can do to further minimize impact.

AG
President
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What do you like best about AwardSpring?

Onboarding with Sam was spectacular. She was thorough and ensured that we were all on the same page, yet kept the pace clipping along. The software is user friendly and robust enough to meet our needs. We stayed on target and met our launch date well in advance! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AwardSpring?

No downside other than the challenge of learning a new software but we feel that we were properly trained and have more than sufficient support, if we arrive at any challenges! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AwardSpring solving and how is that benefiting you?

AwardSpring is allowing us to move away from our paper version of scholarship applications and into a web based system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Emily L.
EL
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What do you like best about AwardSpring?

The system is fairly intuitive. I am just delving into the reporting features but those allow for some filters and drill down of information. I am excited to create a custom report. The application process is pretty easy for students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AwardSpring?

There are occasional glitches in the system which are problematic during an application cycle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AwardSpring solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have a single application for all process and Awardspring makes that easy and convenient for students. On the administrative side, the manipulation of criteria and creation of questions that align with scholarships is simple. Also, creating a pool of candidates and assigning them to reviewers is quick and easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AwardSpring?

As an Administrator, I find AwardSpring to be exceptionally user-friendly, which simplifies my work. The students also find the application process to be much more straightforward compared to the previous system. Working with this company is a delight. The customer support team is remarkable—highly knowledgeable, amiable, and patient, always available to help with any issues that arise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AwardSpring?

Currently, I have no complaints regarding this company or their program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AwardSpring solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our office receives a weekly exception report informing us of missing information or duplicate records needing to be merged into one. This is extremely helpful to clean up duplicate scholarship applications. The report also details missing majors not added to the AwardSpring database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Michael P.
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Senior Manager, Grants &amp; Scholarships Administration
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What do you like best about AwardSpring?

Responsive and superior customer service. Incredible at implementing feedback from user community. Very robust product with many features. Excellent support/webinars. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AwardSpring?

The only thing I don't like is that some features are more unintuitive, like how blinding works. It's functional, but could be improved. Luckily, the AwardSpring team is always striving to improve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AwardSpring solving and how is that benefiting you?

AwardSpring allows us to easily accept applications, assign reviewers, and award students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JY
Assistant Director Institutional Advancement/Scholarship Coordinator
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What do you like best about AwardSpring?

Transferring records from our college host database. Setting up scponsorships one time and carrying over each year. Tracking awards in real time and showing available balances. Not being able to over award. Tracking email with students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AwardSpring?

My deadline and award time were off with the registration. THis has ato be done after registrations begins or batch registration is done for the Fall semester, otherwise current students and graduates show eligibilty. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AwardSpring solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easily match students to pre set criteria. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Kurt Reilly of AwardSpring

JoAnne, thanks so much for taking time to review our platform. Glad to hear you're seeing benefits across the board.

We'd love to hear more about the issues you've had with with deadlines. If you're interested in sharing more, please reach out to product@awardspring.com and we'll see if we can come up with ideas to help with this deadline/timing issue.

Samantha H.
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Assistant Vice President of Financial Aid and Scholarships
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What do you like best about AwardSpring?

The customer service from AwardSpring to both staff, students, and scholarship administrators is truly special. Our scholarship applications increased 80% from implementing this software. I estimated that this saved us almost 160 hours of work by implementing the software. Great product! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AwardSpring?

There is nothing I dislike about AwardSpring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AwardSpring solving and how is that benefiting you?

Prior to implementing AwardSpring, we spent countless hours on paper applications, Excel documents, manual processes. We struggled with getting good scholarship application numbers. As I mentioned, we have seen an 80% increase in QUALIFIED Scholarship applicants & no longer have to match students manually to scholarships. This saved us almost 160 hours of work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Kurt Reilly of AwardSpring

Thanks so much for the positive review, Samantha! We appreciate your feedback and your partnership! (we really love to hear that we saved you over 160 hours of work - that's a full month!!!)

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What do you like best about AwardSpring?

I really like how easy it is to navigate the platform. The UI is very intuitive. Customer Support has been great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AwardSpring?

I think that the Help Center could be improved dramatically (maybe more something like what Handshake has done) and that editing the application could be made easier. I also wish you could have a new, separate application for each cycle, so that editing the application for a new cycle doesn't break data points from previous cycles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AwardSpring solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am a solo administrator for scholarships at my institution and AwardSpring makes it possible to administer over a million dollars in scholarship funds by myself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.