Award & Financial Aid Manager | Aspire: Powered by Platform3

Aspire’s Award & Financial Aid Manager modules equip you with full control over all your programs’ funds while automating how you match candidates with available opportunities. Using Aspire's powerful Award Matching feature, program administrators can automatically find the most suitable candidates for awards by easily comparing program requirements against the attributes of their candidate pool. Higher Education institutions can also leverage the power of Aspire’s Financial Aid Manager to streamline managing entrance awards, government loan programs, general scholarship opportunities in one, convenient location.

Develop your award and financial aid opportunities with greater clarity

Provide a configurable, clear overview of all your award and financial aid funds to better see how they’re being utilized

Create defined program frameworks with eligibility parameters to better provide your applicants with the most relevant opportunities based on their personal profile data
Consolidate data that’s relevant to the applications and awards to save on administrative time
Easily create questions and rules in your awards framework that show up on the application side
Significantly cut down on tedious administrative hours by finding important information needed within seconds, not hours

Streamline matching applicants to the most appropriate awards

Simplify how your applicants search for the most relevant scholarship award opportunities while saving program administrators time matching candidates to the right awards

Aspire’s Award Matching feature enables your applicants to use their profile information, academic merit, and expertise to automatically suggest only the most relevant opportunities
Program staff can quickly filter a list of best-fit candidates based on award criteria so you can find the most qualified people faster
Higher Education institutions can realize significant time savings by using data from their current SIS to automatically match student profiles to the most suitable opportunities

Update your award opportunities on the fly, from anywhere

Save time creating new awards or modifying existing opportunities as your funding priorities and organization’s goals evolve

Create and update award cycles for every new year without losing valuable historical submission data
Add and update information on the spot to any award opportunity wherever you have internet access

“We were so pleased with the amount of flexibility available in the platform, that we were able to extend our reach and use Platform3 for other programs we manage.”

Justin Perrier
Scholarship Systems Analyst

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Manage all your scholarships and business processes on one platform

Aspire is an all-in-one solution powered by SmartSimple’s Platform3 technology that’s designed to help you manage your scholarship award process exactly the way you want. With all its components being modularized, you’re able to uniquely tailor Aspire to suit your specific requirements. Whether you’re a foundation administering a simple scholarship program, or are a Higher Education institution managing a complex portfolio of awards with granular criteria, everything can be managed under one roof.

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Application Manager

Streamline every step in your submission process while aligning all your staff and applicants with the information they need.

Discover Aspire's Modules: Award & Financial Aid Manager

Manage all your scholarship and financial aid opportunities, including bursaries, work-study programs, government loans and more.

Develop your award and financial aid opportunities with greater clarity

Streamline matching applicants to the most appropriate awards

Update your award opportunities on the fly, from anywhere

Manage all your scholarships and business processes on one platform