Modernizing Scholarship Programs
Streamline operations for staff while providing the engaging experience desired by students and volunteers
This webinar will provide insights and best practices into how technology can modernize their scholarship programs, streamline workflows, enhance the member and volunteer experience, and ensure fairness and compliance.
PS: You’ll also get a cup of coffee on us 🙂
Webinar: 10/03/2024 at 11am CT
Webinar Highlights:
We’ve seen thousands of scholarships over the years at Reviewr and there is one program that stands out as an innovator in the space and dare we say it, offers what could be considered the “perfect” scholarship workflow. We’ll keep who they are a secret until the webinar 🙂
Scholarships can be complex. You potentially offer multiple scholarship opportunities and/or have specific requirements and eligibility.
In this section we explore ways to help bring awareness to opportunities as well as manage eligibility checks to make sure we do not waste applicants time applying for opportunities they are ineligible for, or spending valuable staff time vetting unqualified candidates.
Bonus: We will also introduce a scholarship nomination process as a way to boost marketing efforts and program awareness.
What if we told you that roughly 30% of applicants start and never finish a scholarship application?
Now what if I told you that with a properly structured submission workflow and conversion tracking we can not only increase volume, but also increase the quality of entries.
In this section we will explore the “ideal” scholarship application that focuses on academic achievements, community impact, personal storytelling, financial needs, and reference requests. We will also explore long term data collection from scholars such as fund disbursements, media releases, and more.
Ditch reference letters in favor for reference templates. Bring your scholarship to modern times by lowering the barrier for references while also ensuring consistent data collection that ensures a fair, non-bias, selection process.
Who doesn’t love spending their days in spreadsheets, downloading documents, compiling folders, sifting through emails, etc?
Even if you’re a pro in excel – your time is better spent elsewhere. In this portion of the webinar we will discuss areas of opportunity to streamline operations so you can focus less on managing, and more time making an impact and engaging with the community.
What if we told you that the energy levels and workload capacity for volunteers and “scholarship judges” dramatically drops after reviewing roughly 15 submissions?
Raise of hands, how many people have their committees reviewing more than 15, or better yet, ALL submissions?
We will explore proven mechanisms and workflows that allow organizations to distribute scholar applications to their team for review that ensures review teams are not overwhelmed while also making sure each scholar is given the opportunity they deserve.
Arguably one of the hottest topics – how do we create a review process that ensures the best candidates are selected through a fair, impartial, un-bias, and compliant process?
Easier said than done? No – not really. Learn more about how to redact PII, leverage scoresheets, encourage deliberation, and identify individual “judge tendencies”.
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The experience your deserve
The Scholarship Applicant Experience
Empower scholarship applicants with the modern and user friendly experience they desire – promoting more engaged participants, increased participation rates, better quality applications, and reduced support.
The Scholarship Management Experience
Increase scholarship management efficiency by an average of 84%, saving time and money that can be better allocated to other high-impact activities. Manage the entire scholarship lifecycle in one place with a dedicated scholarship management system – eliminating the back and fourth between paper, email, web forms, spreadsheets, exporting, databases, file sharing, and more.
Streamline your review process with Reviewr’s dynamic feature for assigning scholarship applicants to review committees, a vital tool within our comprehensive scholarship management software. This feature offers versatile assignment options to accommodate your program’s unique needs, ensuring a fair and unbiased evaluation process. Manually assign individual scholarship applications to specific committee members for a tailored review approach, or utilize groupings to distribute batches of applications efficiently among different reviewers. For a more impartial distribution, leverage the automated assignment system, which randomly allocates a set number of submissions to judges, mitigating potential biases and promoting a fair assessment environment. This assignment flexibility ensures that each application is reviewed thoroughly and fairly, enhancing the integrity and credibility of your scholarship program.
The Scholarship Review Experience
Reduce scholarship evaluation workloads by 79% and promote a professional and time-conscious online review and selection experience resulting in higher quality reviews, feedback, and increased year over volunteer retention. Ensure program integrity and confidence through non-bias, accurate, transparent, consistent, and data-driven decision-making.
