Case Study: Boys & Girls Clubs of America achieves streamlined awards administration and reporting with OpenWater

How BGCA utilizes OpenWater for their various workflows

Boys & Girls Clubs of America faced a complex awards-management challenge: their program handles 600–700 submissions across three rounds (state, regional and national) with more than 400 active judges, while a two-person team and 17 internal staff struggled to coordinate regional judging as nominees advanced. To address this, they adopted the OpenWater awards-management platform for its robust, multi-program capabilities.

OpenWater streamlined operations by reducing the administrative burden on the two-person coordination team and giving staff reporting tools to monitor regional activity early in the call for applications. The platform also lets them export organized PDFs by folder and scale across multiple programs, enabling the organization to manage 600–700 submissions and 400+ judges more efficiently with OpenWater.

Boys & Girls Clubs of America

Ashley Hickman

Boys & Girls Clubs of America