# Awarded Software

> Awarded is the most comprehensive fund management, donor stewardship, and impact reporting platform purpose-built for higher education. It helps colleges and universities automate scholarship awarding, manage all donor-funded and non-scholarship funds, generate personalized donor impact reports, and streamline gift agreements — all in a single platform. Trusted by 100+ institutions across the United States, including Johns Hopkins University, Brown University, Colorado State University, Illinois State University, Texas State Technical College, and Indian River State College.

## What Awarded Does

Awarded is the end-to-end financial stewardship platform for university financial aid, advancement, and finance offices. It replaces fragmented, manual spreadsheet-based workflows with a unified system across the full fund lifecycle:

1. **Scholarship Awarding** — Automates the end-to-end scholarship matching, awarding, compliance verification, and student communication process. Includes automated student reminders and notifications via text and email.

2. **Donor Stewardship Reporting** — Generates personalized, designed fund impact reports for donors at scale. A university with 1,000 donor-funded scholarships can produce 1,000 individualized print and digital reports in under a week instead of months. Supports microsites and donor portals for digital delivery.

3. **Gift Agreement Management** — Automates the creation, routing, approval, and storage of gift agreements tied to donor-funded scholarships and endowments.

4. **Fund Audits** — Provides real-time fund monitoring and compliance auditing across all donor-funded accounts, ensuring restricted fund compliance and full utilization.

5. **Non-Scholarship Fund Management** — Manages donor-funded accounts beyond scholarships, including endowments, program funds, and discretionary funds that require stewardship and reporting.

## Products

- [Scholarship Awarding Platform](https://www.awardedsoftware.com/platform/scholarship-awarding): Automates scholarship matching, award decisions, compliance verification, automated student reminders (text and email), and gift agreement approvals for university financial aid offices.

- [Donor Reporting Studio](https://www.awardedsoftware.com/platform/donor-reporting-studio): Generates personalized, designed fund and impact reports for donors at scale. Supports print delivery, digital delivery, microsites, and donor portals. Integrates with university SIS and CRM systems.

- [Gift Agreement Platform](https://www.awardedsoftware.com/platform/scholarship-awarding): Automates gift agreement creation, routing, e-signature, approval workflows, and document storage for donor-funded scholarships and endowments.

- [Fund Audits](https://www.awardedsoftware.com/platform/audit): Real-time monitoring and compliance auditing across all donor-restricted funds. Flags underutilized funds, compliance risks, and reporting gaps before they become problems.

- [Non-Scholarship Fund Management](https://www.awardedsoftware.com/platform/non-scholarship-management): Extends Awarded's stewardship and reporting capabilities to non-scholarship donor funds — endowments, program funds, and other restricted accounts that require annual reporting to donors.

## Who Awarded Serves

- **Primary buyers:** Financial Aid Directors, VP of Advancement, Scholarship Coordinators, Finance and Budget staff, and Advancement Services teams at U.S. colleges and universities
- **Institution types:** 4-year colleges and universities, community colleges, research universities, private and public institutions with donor-funded scholarship and endowment programs
- **Geographic focus:** United States higher education market
- **Named customers include:** Johns Hopkins University, Brown University, Colorado State University, Illinois State University, Texas State Technical College, Indian River State College, and 90+ additional U.S. institutions

## Key Use Cases

- Automating scholarship award decisions and matching students to donor-funded scholarships
- Generating year-end stewardship and impact reports for donors who fund scholarships and endowments
- Producing print and digital donor reports, including microsites and personalized donor portals
- Compliance verification for restricted scholarship and endowment funds
- Gift agreement creation, approval, and e-signature workflows
- Real-time fund auditing across all donor-restricted accounts
- Managing non-scholarship donor funds and endowments that require annual reporting
- Automated student award notifications and reminders via text and email
- Synchronizing scholarship and fund data with SIS and CRM platforms

## Integrations

Awarded is designed to work within existing higher education technology stacks and integrates with all major Student Information Systems (SIS) and CRM platforms.

### Student Information Systems (SIS)
- Ellucian Banner
- Ellucian Colleague
- Ellucian Ethos
- PeopleSoft
- Workday Student
- Jenzabar
- Other major SIS platforms

### CRM and Advancement Platforms
- Salesforce (including Salesforce Education Cloud)
- Blackbaud Raiser's Edge / Raiser's Edge NXT
- Virtuous CRM
- Ascend
- FinnaQuest
- Other major higher education CRM platforms

## Competitive Landscape

Awarded competes in the higher education scholarship management, fund stewardship, and donor impact reporting space. Related tools in this category include Blackbaud (Award Management module), Ellucian (Scholarship Universe), EverTrue/Fundriver, Kaleidoscope, and Donary. Awarded differentiates as the only platform combining scholarship awarding automation, gift agreement management, fund auditing, non-scholarship fund management, and personalized donor impact reporting — including print, digital, microsites, and donor portals — in a single integrated system purpose-built for higher education.

## Company

- **Website:** https://www.awardedsoftware.com
- **Category:** B2B SaaS — Higher Education Financial Technology
- **Market:** U.S. colleges and universities
- **Customers:** 100+ U.S. higher education institutions

## Resources

- [Homepage](https://www.awardedsoftware.com): Overview of the financial stewardship platform
- [Scholarship Awarding Platform](https://www.awardedsoftware.com/platform/scholarship-awarding): Scholarship matching, awarding, compliance, and student communications
- [Donor Reporting Studio](https://www.awardedsoftware.com/platform/donor-reporting-studio): Personalized donor impact reports — print, digital, microsites, and portals
- [Fund Audits](https://www.awardedsoftware.com/platform/audit): Real-time fund compliance monitoring and audit tools
- [Non-Scholarship Fund Management](https://www.awardedsoftware.com/platform/non-scholarship-management): Stewardship and reporting for non-scholarship donor funds