Case Study: National Society of Collegiate Scholars achieves faster, more efficient scholarship reviews with Blackbaud Award Management

National Society of Collegiate Scholars - Customer Case Study

The National Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS) is a national honors organization that awards more than $1 million in scholarships each year to high‑achieving students. Managing scholarship creation, promotion, and disbursement became inefficient as NSCS handled over 10,000 applications using Google Forms and Excel mail merges; the process was time‑consuming, prone to duplicates, and lacked a seamless experience for applicants and administrators, including single‑sign‑on with their Salesforce database.

NSCS implemented Blackbaud Award Management with full Salesforce integration, branded communications, and a central dashboard for applicants and reviewers. The platform streamlined application collection, allowed reviewers to log in and be reassigned easily, sped up the review cycle, reduced duplicates and overall processing time, increased completed submissions, and simplified collecting testimonials and photos for promotion—helping NSCS make awards faster and more efficiently.

National Society of Collegiate Scholars

Jen Castillo

Senior Manager of Scholarships