studies in success

Our relationships with educational institutions and students put us on a fast-track to creating and managing a scholarship program, now in its 5th year, for a major Canadian financial institution. Basing our strategic plan on the corporate customer acquisition and retention objectives, we created a portfolio of attractive scholarships, spanning the post-secondary landscape. From end to end, we project-managed the scholarship program from accepting and judging thousands of applications to winner events, and everything in between.

A well-known national food service chain required a program designed to help recruit new employees and retain current ones. Our strategy leveraged the considerable stature of their brand into a scholarship program that encourages their employees to develop through education. Our expertise in scholarship management has enabled us to find efficiencies year after year for the last 7 years. We bring our best practices to bear, and the program consistently raises the number of applications each year, while keeping client costs to a minimum. We have provided the client with a scholarship program to be proud of.

A foremost not-for-profit organization came to Studentawards with $200,000 in community grant money to divide up and distribute nationally, and only 6 weeks in which to do so. Our team developed the strategic plan to award the money to 40-plus schools across Canada, effectively communicated the offering and application instructions to those eligible schools, managed the grant awarding process and arranged presentations in winning schools – all within the prescribed timeline. The Studentawards team is up to the challenge of managing your grants program and always delivering 360 degree satisfaction.