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Streamline Your Grants Program

SmarterSelect’s tools save time at every stage of the application process.

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Manage a few or a few thousand
applicants.

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No programming required.

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No more wasting time matching apps with documents.

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Operates on all types of phones, tablets, and laptops.

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Automated recommendations.

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Customize with your scoring rubric.

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Customize with your scoring rubric.

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Powerful reporting to find your best applicants.

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Communication to your users via email and text messages.

SmarterSelect features

SmarterSelect helps organizations efficiently manage scholarships,
grants, and award applications.

 Unlimited Numbers & Types of Programs

Unlimited Numbers & Types of Programs

Our numerous program options accommodate a variety of requirements across program types.

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Unlimited Numbers & Types of Programs

Our numerous program options accommodate a variety of requirements across program types.

Program Library

Program Library

Get great application and evaluation ideas and suggestions from other organizations with our Program Library.

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Customer Support

Customer support and training is included with your subscription. No separate support fees!

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Application Form

Fast and easy to create. Multiple questions types. Attach files. And, it’s mobile responsive so it adjusts to phones, tablets, and laptops.

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Pre-Qualify Applicants

Reduce your administrative burden by eliminating unqualified individuals before they apply. Setup with your own qualifying questions and rules.

Upload Files

Upload Files

Upload transcripts, documents, photos, and more. Accepts all file formats. Also, limit the uploads to your preferred format (e.g. PDF, JPG, etc.).

Application Rules

Application Rules

Streamline the application process by dynamically changing the application questions based on the user’s answers.

Calculations

Calculations

Automatically calculate totals, scores, and formulas to simplify your work and reduce errors.

Common Application

Common Application

For organizations with many programs, collect common information from your applicants only one time. Share the information across many programs.

Surveys

Surveys

Get feedback and input from your applicants and reviewers on your program performance.

Email & Text Communication

Email & Text Communication

Keep your applicants and evaluators informed with status notifications and reminders sent via email and text messaging.

Integrations

Integrations

Share application data with over 2,000 popular software applications, such as Salesforce and other CRM systems without a programmer.

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Make it easy for your users to access SmarterSelect by using their CRM or Member Management System credentials.

Unlimited Numbers & Types of Programs

Unlimited Numbers & Types of Programs

Our numerous program options accommodate a variety of requirements across program types.

Reports

Reports

Easily create custom reports to analyze applicant and evaluation data. Specify multiple criteria to quickly identify the data you are looking for.

Program Library

Program Library

Get great application and evaluation ideas and suggestions from other organizations with our Program Library.

Exports & PDFs

Exports & PDFs

Easily share your data with others via CSV and PDF exports. Access the data at anytime and from anywhere. Excel-ready exports for applicant and/or evaluation data makes archiving, reporting, and auditing simple.

Application Form

Application Form

Fast and easy to create. Multiple questions types. Attach files. And, it’s mobile responsive so it adjusts to phones, tablets, and laptops.

Email & Text Communication

Email & Text Communication

Strengthen your application with recommendations or information from third-parties. Totally online and with your unique questions.

Integrations

Integrations

Share application data with over 2,000 popular software applications, such as Salesforce and other CRM systems without a programmer.

Award Tracking

Award Tracking

Create funds and assign award amounts to applicants for scholarships and grants. Send emails notifying applicants of their awards with links for award acceptance.

Online Evaluation

Online Evaluation

No more sending or emailing sensitive or confidential information to your committee members. Totally online process. Easy to use by your committee on any type of device.

Automatically Score Answers

Automatically Score Answers

Generate scores or points for qualitative values, such as GPAs, test scores, specific answers, etc.

Your Own Evaluation Scheme

Your Own Evaluation Scheme

Supports your scoring scheme. Easy for your committee to read and score. Add any type of scoring question into your app.

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Calculations

Automatically calculate totals, scores, and formulas to simplify your work and reduce errors.

Anonymous Data

Anonymous Data

Make applicants and their answers anonymous. Hide the applicant’s identity or highly personal information on a question, section, or page basis.

Evaluator Share Notes & Scores

Evaluator Share Notes & Scores

At your discretion, allow evaluators to view each others notes and scores of applicants.

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Reports

Easily create custom reports to analyze applicant and evaluation data. Specify multiple criteria to quickly identify the data you are looking for.

Evaluator Groups

Evaluator Groups

Reduce your administrative burden by organizing your review committees into logical groups. Assign evaluations on a group basis with a single click.

Email & Text Communication

Email & Text Communication

Keep your applicants and evaluators informed with status notifications and reminders sent via email and text messaging.

Award Tracking

Award Tracking

Create funds and assign award amounts to applicants for scholarships and grants. Send emails notifying applicants of their awards with links for award acceptance.

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Make it easy for your users to access SmarterSelect by using their CRM or Member Management System credentials.

Schedule Interviews

Schedule Interviews

Let us help you schedule applicant interviews. Send invitations via email and text and see RSVP responses as they come in.

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We’ve got your back

See the true value of SmarterSelect through interactions with our support team. They
work side-by-side with our developers who build our service, so their expertise
makes it easy to troubleshoot and resolve any issues that may arise.

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Customer Support

Expert customer support at no extra charge.  Average response time – less than one hour! 98% customer support satisfaction rate.

Online Help

Online Help Center

Learn how best to turbocharge your programs. From common applications to text notifications, search hundreds of articles to quickly answer any questions you may have.

Community Forum

Community Forum

Our best features come from your ideas! Submit your suggestions, plus learn from other program administrators who can share their experience and knowledge.

Weekly Q&A

Weekly Q&A

Want to bounce your questions and ideas off peers or our staff? Here’s your chance! Join us weekly at one of our most popular events.

Integrate with popular
products and platforms

Via www.zapier.com, connect SmarterSelect with over 2,000 applications
 without a programmer.

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Watch an Overview

See just how easy it is set up your own applications with SmarterSelect.

Schedule your
Personalized Demo

We’ll discuss your unique requirements and which SmarterSelect features would be most helpful. We’ll also share real-life examples from organizations like yours.

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Client’s Testimonials

See what our customer’s speak about our products.

“We are able to begin and end our grants management procedures within the same system. This has been a huge time and cost saver for our foundation. The board members and grants committee members have been more than pleased with the ease of reviewing and evaluating submitted applications.”

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– OPERATIONS MANAGER
Private Foundation

“We have used SmarterSelect through three scholarship cycles now and have enjoyed the ease of use for our students, our selection committee and ourselves! When questions arise, we have found the SmarterSelect support crew to be very helpful. SmarterSelect has been a good investment for us!”

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Vermeer Charitable Foundation

“We have used SmarterSelect through three scholarship cycles now and have enjoyed the ease of use for our students, our selection committee and ourselves! When questions arise, we have found the SmarterSelect support crew to be very helpful. SmarterSelect has been a good investment for us!”

– ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
– ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Vermeer Charitable Foundation