We have a few scholarships that are state-matched to privately funded dollars. Does anyone have accounts with 2 buckets, and how do you manage it in BAM? Right now, our first solution is to create 2 different portfolios for each bucket of funds. Do anyone have a better solution?
I lead a central scholarship office for a university and have been working with the head of one of our schools on the scholarships strategy for their unit. They posed an interesting question to me: What is the ideal balance for allocating scholarship funds between prospective and continuing students (e.g., 50% each)? I…
We have (many) reviewer chairs just downloading grid views and distributing applications to their committees via the .csv file. They've told us it's easier for them to format the .csv and review that way than it is for them to review applicants multiple times across various scholarships. We are trying to prevent this while…
Anyone else have this issue? I was on Chat with Charles then Mikail and it was overall a positive experience. They tried their best to help me but ultimately, I was told that someone who is a Library Administrator cannot Review his scholarships any longer because he has no way to receive the 2-step authentication without a…
Why would our awards not go into encumbered and disbursed funds when they are awarded? We have it set up so that “awarded” goes into encumbered funds but it doesn't show up in the encumbered funds report. Blackbaud looked into it and the error message was “Has disbursements BUT does not contain any disbursements where…
In the past, we calculated need based on EFC and used a tiered system for high, low, and moderate need. These tiers were used as qualifications for our need-based scholarships. With the FAFSA changes and SAI craziness, we're having to re-think how we identify financial need. Curious how other institutions are navigating…
Hello - We are new to Award Managment. We have some students who can log in and access the General Application, but not the Conditional Application. Some students can and some cannot, so it isn't a problem for all. Can anyone share guidance on why this is happening and how we can assist the students? Thank you in advance.
Has anyone figured out how to gather post-acceptance from renewals?
Hey! Does anyone have sample communications that they use in their system? All communication samples are welcomed: applicant, reviewer, post-acceptance, etc. Thank you in advance for sharing!
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