Scholarship Lifecycle Manager

Online Applications

Accepting online applications saves your applicants and staff time and resources. And, with Scholarship Lifecycle Manager (SLM), you can quickly and easily make changes or create new applications yourself without calling us for a cost or time estimate. Your application management process is in your hands. 

• Simplify the application with question branching so applicants only need to answer relevant questions. 
• Further customize forms using tabled questions with pre-qualified information to minimize data entry.
• Enable students to apply for multiple scholarships with Foundant’s single Universal Application.
• Provide applicants peace of mind with auto-save and the ability to copy and paste when applying for multiple scholarships.
• Streamline the administration process, receive all information in a consistent format, and easily find everything associated with a scholarship application in one management system.  

Matching Criteria

Get qualified students into applications and ensure no scholarship goes unfilled. Foundant’s matching criteria features save valuable time and improve the experience for both applicants and administrators. 

• Eligibility Quiz: Help applicants by condensing a double (and sometimes triple) digit list of scholarships into a list of only those that are a match. Staff will know applicants are pre-qualified for the scholarships they are applying for based on the eligibility rules set by your team in our easy-to-use rule builder. Rules can be set in an AND or OR function to be as specific or broad as your donor’s requirements.
• Access Codes: Direct students to the most applicable awards program.
• Universal Application: Matching criteria makes it possible for students to be evaluated for all your scholarships and donors’ specific requirements with just one application. Even if a donor has additional questions or essays, the Universal Application streamlines the submission process and saves time for both applicants and administrators.

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Third-Party Recommendations

SLM makes collecting documentation easy for applicants, administrators, and third parties.

• Allow applicants to request third-party information including Letters of Recommendation and transcripts from higher education institutions in any required format.
• Keep everyone on track with automated email reminders to third parties and applicants. 
• Streamline your workflow—third-party information is automatically attached to the correct application for administrative and committee review.
• Provide dashboard visibility for applicants, administrators, and third parties. Busy counselors managing multiple applications to multiple scholarships will appreciate being able to keep track of submitted and in-draft recommendations with a single dashboard.

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Online Scholarship Reviews

Provide reviewers with a convenient and easy-to-use application review process. With SLM’s online reviews, you can easily:

• Enable reviewers to sort, score, and review applicants in an organized and efficient manner from any device that connects to the internet. 
• Create efficiencies across your team with side-by-side evaluations, downloadable PDFs, and shared documents. 
• Gather everything needed while collecting reviews, including scoring questions, comments, and conflict of interest statements.
• Choose which applicant information to make anonymous to reviewers (i.e., demographics) to eliminate any risk of bias.
• Communicate with reviewers within the application via a comment area that only administrators and reviewers can see. 
• Check the status of reviewers and send automated reminders to ensure timely completion.

Online Scholarship Acceptance and Renewal

Save time, create transparency, and eliminate confusion for both applicants and administrators. 

• Take advantage of unlimited follow up forms to require everything you need a recipient to do after acceptance, from thank you letters to verification of enrollment. 
• Send automated reminders and post-acceptance information that recipients can submit online and staff can easily track as items are received or become past due. 
• Track conditions and requirements of multi-year awards.
• Manage renewable scholarships through follow ups and reminders, and tie them to further payment commitments from the funder.

Reporting and Analytics

Throughout the scholarship lifecycle, data is collected from applicants, third parties, reviewers, and staff. Imagine being able to quickly and easily access this information in one location to share your story with stakeholders. SLM makes this a reality. 

• Group, sort, analyze, and visualize any collected data—including data on tables.
• Manipulate data using formulas, sorting, filters, groups, subgroups, aggregates, charts, or crosstabs.
• Select the data you want to report on and move it to our report builder to slice and dice as you’d like—whether by donor year over year or ranking evaluation information. With our helpful in-product how-tos, step-by-step training videos, and learning guides, anyone can quickly learn to create reports.