Case Study: Empower Illinois achieves scalable scholarship processing with LaunchPad Lab

Empower Illinois processes $50M in donations with LaunchPad Lab

Empower Illinois, a statewide Scholarship Granting Organization, faced the challenge of managing a high volume of scholarship applications manually after their third-party vendor's site crashed due to traffic. They needed a robust technical solution to efficiently process thousands of applications while complying with state requirements and turned to LaunchPad Lab for web application development.

LaunchPad Lab developed a highly scalable custom application that could handle the traffic, followed by a complete platform called EmpowerXChange. This solution automated the scholarship process, enabling Empower Illinois to award scholarships in minutes instead of weeks. The results were significant, with over $50 million in donations processed and more than 10,000 scholarships awarded to families in need within two years.

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