Modernizing Grant Management
Streamline operations for staff while providing the engaging experience desired by grantees, volunteers, and stakeholders
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: 10/02/2024 at 11am CT
Webinar Highlights:
We’ve seen thousands of grants over the years at Reviewr and there is one particular program that stands out as an innovator in the space and dare we say it, offers what could be considered the “perfect” grant workflow. We’ll keep who they are a secret until the webinar 🙂
Grants can be complex. You potentially offer multiple grant 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 grant 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 grant 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” grant application that focuses on personal information, project details, budgets, sustainability, and how success will be measured. We will also explore long term data collection from grantees for grant reporting purposes.
Ditch reference letters in favor for reference templates. Bring your grant 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 award 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 “award 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 nominations?
We will explore proven mechanisms and workflows that allow submissions to be distributed to their team for review that ensures review teams are not overwhelmed while also making sure each applicant 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”.
At the end of the day we need to be able to report back to our communities and stakeholders and report on positive impact. Reporting impact isn’t challenging but we first must create an ecosystem for ongoing data collection from grantees to ensure we have the data to report on.
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The experience your deserve
The Grant Applicant Experience
Empower grant applicants with the modern and user friendly experience they desire – promoting more engaged participants, increased participation rates, better quality submissions, and reduced support.
The Grant Management Experience
Increase grant management efficiency by an average of 84%, saving time and money that can be better allocated to other high-impact activities. Manage the entire program lifecycle in one place – 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 grant applicants to review committees, a vital tool within our comprehensive grant 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 grant 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 grant program.
The Review Experience
Reduce volunteer 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.
