Case Study: Sandhills Community College achieves streamlined, automated scholarship management with Blackbaud Award Management

Sandhills Community College - Customer Case Study

Sandhills Community College faced a growing scholarship-management burden: a homegrown online application proved popular with students but offered no administrative automation, forcing staff and IT to compile data manually, run frequent committee meetings, and send paper award letters. The college needed a more flexible, centralized solution to streamline workflows and reduce administrative overhead.

By implementing Blackbaud Award Management, Sandhills centralized scholarship qualifications, enabled administrators to make changes without IT, and moved award notifications to email. The system cut committee meetings from nine a year to two, helped prevent over-awarding by showing current student offers, and improved both the number and quality of applications — while paving the way for better donor stewardship and more efficient student access.

Sandhills Community College

Jonathan Garrison

Scholarship Coordinator