Blackbaud Award Management 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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User Reviews

Overview

Blackbaud Award Management

4.4

(30)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Blackbaud Award Management

Blackbaud Award Management is an award management software designed to help higher education institutions manage their entire scholarship process.

Teams can collect and record donors’ contact information, funding details, scholarship recipient data and donor acknowledgments on a centralized dashboard. Blackbaud Award Management lets administrators match applicants with scholarships and notify them regarding available awards. Additionally, the platform lets stakeholders gain cross-functional visibility across scholarship processes and streamline fund utilization.

Blackbaud Award Management helps managers share campus news, thank-you statements and annual reports with donors. Pricing is available on request and support is extended via live chat, email, phone, knowledgebase and community forum.

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Blackbaud Award Management Pricing and Plans

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Basic

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Blackbaud Award Management Features

Popular features found in Scholarship Management
Applicant Portal
Applicant Tracking
Commenting/Notes
Customizable Questions
Data Import/Export
Document Review
Forms Management
Grant Management
Recommendations
Scoring
Status Tracking
Web Forms
More features of Blackbaud Award Management
Access Controls/Permissions
Ad hoc Reporting
Alerts/Notifications
Alumni Management
Application Management
Audit Management
Collaboration Tools
Customizable Branding
Customizable Forms
Financial Aid Management
Fundraising Management
Reporting & Statistics
Reviewer Management
Role-Based Permissions
Scheduling
Self Service Portal
Student Information/Records
Student Portal
White Label
Workflow Management

Blackbaud Award Management Integrations

Decisions

Blackbaud Award Management User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

47%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.4

Value for money

4.2

Customer support

4.8

Functionality

4.4

Akhila M.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2018

Academicworks Review

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This is a scholarship software which is very useful for the institutions. I am working as assistant professor so this is very useful for identifying scholarship donors for my students and most attractive thing of this software is that by using this software we can easily renew scholarship.

Cons:

Very good software. I didn't find any cons.

Michelle S.

Higher Education

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2017

This system has been a wonderful in increasing efficiency and improve donor contact.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We really like having all the scholarships visible in one place for students, families and donors to view. No more searching the web for scholarship information. We have also like the ease in which you can communicate with students and others via the system which has saved time with individual emails. We have increased our scholarship applications due to the ease of accessing the application. Our students have given the software much praise. Lastly, real time reporting has been a life saver, not only with managing the day to day but providing data to management as a moments notice.

Cons:

The Reviewer portal is a bit cumbersome. Our departments scholarship committees find it difficult to use.

Heather S.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2021

Award Management

Overall, learning to run the system and think like the system has been a hurdle, it's not always user friendly on the admin side. The more i learn the more it works for me.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The software allows for an easy student user experience.

Cons:

It's missing some functionality for logging in as an admin side, some tweaky things like creating a grid view and if your mouse moves outside the pop up it closes down.

Jonathan G.

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2017

Academic Works has revolutionized our scholarship process!!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We love the software because it is easy to use, and has revolutionized our process. The main reason we love the software is of the excellent customer support and service that we receive. The entire staff always goes above and beyond to answer questions, and find solutions that will work for the problem you have. They are always thinking outside the box for ways to make my job easier!

Rachel S.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

501-1000 employees

Used daily for free trial

Review source

Reviewed September 2020

Great for scholarship management!

Blackbaud is an in-depth project management system and helps keep our contacts, notes, client history, scholarship donors, etc. all in one place. Using it for our scholarship management has helped increase our efficiency since we no longer have to print everything out for committees to review. Applications can be reviewed and scored online making the process much smoother.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Academic Works a great solution for scholarship management. It helps us manage the both the application and selection process for over 150 different scholarships. It's easy for students to apply and for donors and selection committees to review.

Cons:

The software is pretty pricey. There are also a lot of features that were a bit more than we needed so at times it felt like we were paying for features that we just weren't using. However, we felt like we would grow into it and eventually begin using more features for our scholarship program.

Melonie B.

Education Management

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2017

Best support team I've ever worked with in 25 years of dealing with third party vendors.

We have streamlined our scholarships process from application to award and now have a single platform for use by students and staff ensuring consistency across all stages of the process

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

Flexibility of the product and how it works across a very decentralized campus. We have ability to design different features for our various colleges and programs that fit their individual needs.

Krista A.

Non-Profit Organization Management

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2017

I love AcademicWorks for how simple it is for kids to apply for their scholarship applications.

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Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I love how easy it is to close out a scholarship and clone the applications for the next scholarship season. The review process is also very easy to work with as a reviewer and admin.

Cons:

I have missed updating dates in the application from year to year. It would be nice if the dates were highlighted or standout a little more.

James O.

Higher Education

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2017

Great product. If you are a decentralized school, good luck. Not an AW fault but college personell

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

User friendly. One-applications for campus...though you are likely to find old-timers in Department who are incapable of adapting to a new process.

Cons:

takes a lot of set-up time on the front end and if your college hasnt provide ample support, its a lot of work for a few people

Lisa F.

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed February 2016

Second year of scholarship awards

I've been working with the software since we went live on September 1, 2014. We are in our second cycle of awards. We award twice in an academic year - once in the fall and once in the spring. Spring is the bigger of the two: 130 scholarships vs. 70 in the fall. Pros; organized, eliminates paper, screens applicants, communicates via email. Cons; students don't always take the necessary 'apply-to' step, reference requests are difficult, can't delete anything and sometimes changes can't be made. Customer Service: I rated Customer Service a bit lower than I would have last year because I have seen a significant change. I used to be able to call and get someone on the phone or online chat with someone. Now, I always have to leave a message and never get anyone on the online chat. I realize you have a much bigger customer base now and I can definitely see the results in the Customer Service. Conference: I was at the conference again this past year where the company spoke about the new direction it is going with donor information. I get that a company is always looking to find new opportunities and new customers but I was disappointed because I felt that your main focus was moving away from the scholarship management piece. I hope you will continue to try and improve the scholarship management software. It's a great product but I think it could be even better!

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Customer support