Scholars United helps to automate different organizations in either the public or private sector; it can be adapted to organizations of any size. It eliminates stress,  complexity, and paperwork.

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What Users Love About the App

“We like application visibility and that applicants can see the deadline dates. We have received nothing but positive feedback from applicants, liking the 24/7 access to their application. Our reviewers and scorers also like the convenience of being able to review from their homes.”

“We originally had a paper process and in 2014 we chose CommunityForce ScholarsUnited as the tool to help us manage our fellowship applications. As a one-person administrative office for a foundation, I am able to manage the lifecycle of the fellowship applications without a full team backing me up. We are very satisfied customers of CommunityForce.”

“The ease of use! I enjoy creating sections for my applications because it is very self-directed and easy to understand. With minimal issues, I have crafted multiple scholarship and grant applications, and each and everyone is customizable with lots of options!”

“We also enjoy learning all of the new functions we can utilize as time goes on. It’s nice knowing that when I set something up in CF it will work. One thing we could explore in the future is blind applications.”

“We found that the users of our scholarship platform found the software was easy to input information and that the technology requirements were not overwhelming. In addition, we found once we learned the system, we, as administrators found it easier to work with.”

What Users Dislike About the App

“What I like least is the limitations on reports that can be run from the system. There is a built-in AdHoc Reports feature, but it is limited to Excel. I would love for there to be different ways to run the reports – mainly Microsoft Word or Publisher.”

“Our issue is we have essays with some of our scholarships, and fitting an essay box on an Excel spreadsheet while still trying to make it user friendly isn’t possible! I would love to see reports where each qualifying student could have all of the information needed on one page of a report.”

“It was not always easy to go into the system to clone the application and then make necessary changes in the new application. It did require a lot of learning and reviewing numerous videos to find the best way to proceed.”

“This was a self service platform and one needed to become very adept at the technology required to fully implement the application platform. In addition, it was not possible to have multiple applications opened, released and tracked simultaneously and easily which was a requirement for our college saving account application.”

“What I do not like is the Help Center. I have tried to type in simple questions like “how to sort columns” there was not an answer for it.”