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From Applications to Impact: Building a Better Credit Union Scholarship Program

This session breaks down how leading credit unions are running scholarship programs in 2026

event
May 26, 2026
schedule
2:00 pm

Your scholarship program runs every year. The applications come in, the committee reviews, the checks go out, the photos get posted.

But what happens between those moments — and what happens after — is where most credit unions are leaving real value on the table.

This session breaks down how leading credit unions are running scholarship programs in 2026:

- Smarter applications

- Faster reviews

- Stronger member activation

- Post-award workflows that turn recipients into lifetime relationships and applicants into community connections.

If you run a scholarship program — or you're tired of running yours the way you've always run it — this is for you.

What You'll Learn:

  • Why both member and non-member applicants are valuable — and how to convert non-winning applicants into a marketing pipeline
  • How to design your application around a scholar persona built on academics, community leadership, financial need, and personal narrative
  • The operational reality of running a scholarship program with limited bandwidth — and what high-performing CUs do differently
  • How leading programs structure review (randomized assignment, score normalization, AI-assisted scoring) to cut committee time in half without losing rigor
  • Turning post-award workflows into measurable community impact and long-term member engagement