Structured review for scholarship committees —your first cycle is $37

Every Applicant Deserves a Committee That Evaluated Them Fairly. Every Donor Deserves to Know It Happened.

ScholarshipCommittee is the structured review platform that gives volunteer scholarship committees a consistent, independent, documented evaluation process — from the first application to the final award.

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What is ScholarshipCommittee?

One consistent process for volunteers who all work differently

ScholarshipCommittee gives each volunteer reviewer a simple, mobile-friendly link — no login required. Each reviewer scores each application independently against the same criteria, flags any conflicts of interest, and submits before seeing any other reviewer's scores. You see a live dashboard as scores come in.

When the review is complete, you have a clean, documented award record for every applicant — and a decision you can explain to anyone who asks.

The problem

Generous volunteers, inconsistent process

Running a scholarship committee means coordinating volunteers who are generous with their time but inconsistent in their process. Some submit their scores early. Some show up to the meeting and decide in the room. Some know an applicant and don't mention it. Some use the Google Form. Some email.

The result is a decision that was probably fair — but that you couldn't fully document if a donor, a trustee, or a disappointed applicant ever asked you to.

Scholarship committees make real decisions about real students. They deserve a process that holds up.

“A donor called after the awards were announced and wanted to understand the selection process. I had a spreadsheet and some email chains.”

And the reviewer who knew one of the applicants? You found out after the award was announced.

What ScholarshipCommittee does

Structure your volunteers will actually follow

The hard part of a scholarship cycle was never the scoring — it was getting a dozen busy volunteers to score the same way, on time, in one place. That is the part this handles.

A link, not a login.: Your reviewers are volunteers, not staff. Each one gets a personal, mobile-friendly link by email and scores from their phone — no account to create, no password to reset, no reason to email you asking how to get in.
One format, not five.: Everyone scores the same criteria on the same scale in the same place. No more reconciling a Google Form, three emails, a marked-up PDF, and one reviewer who texted you their rankings.
Conflicts flagged before the award.: A reviewer who knows an applicant declares it as part of scoring, and the conflict is documented automatically. You find out during the review, not after the awards are announced.
Independent scores, before the room.: Each reviewer submits before seeing anyone else's scores, so the volunteer who reads every essay carefully counts as much as the one who speaks first at the selection meeting.
A live dashboard instead of chasing.: See who has scored and who hasn't, in real time. The week you used to spend sending reminder emails one at a time becomes a glance at a screen.
An award record for your donors.: A clean summary of every reviewer's scores for every application, with conflicts documented — ready to share with your board, your donors, or your trustees the day they ask.

How it works

From the application pile to the award announcement

1 Set up your review cycle: Add your applications, your criteria, and your reviewers. Each reviewer gets an email with their personal link — no account needed.
2 Reviewers score independently: Each reviewer evaluates every application on their own schedule, on any device, before seeing any other reviewer's scores. Conflicts of interest are flagged and documented automatically.
3 You get a defensible award record: A clean summary of every reviewer's scores for every application, with conflicts documented — ready to share with your board, your donors, or your trustees.

Pricing

Your first scholarship cycle is $37

Unlimited applications, unlimited reviewers. Priced so a scholarship program can start this cycle without a budget line, a purchase order, or a conversation with the board.

$37first cycle

Unlimited applications and unlimited reviewers — no per-reviewer charge, ever.

Unlimited applications
Unlimited reviewers
Your criteria and scoring scale
COI declaration flagged and documented
Live dashboard as scores come in
Full award record export for your donors and board

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Who this is for

Built for the person coordinating the volunteers

If you are the staff person who chases reviewers for their scores, reconciles five formats into one spreadsheet, and would have to explain the selection if a donor called — ScholarshipCommittee was built for you.

Community foundations: Administering scholarship funds on behalf of named donors, where each fund's selection has to be explainable to the family whose name is on it.
Civic organizations: Rotary clubs, chambers, veterans' posts, and service organizations running an annual award with a committee of members who volunteer their evenings.
Corporate giving programs: Running employee or community scholarship cycles where the review has to be consistent and reportable back to the business.
Associations and membership organizations: Awarding scholarships to members, their children, or students entering the field — often with reviewers scattered across the state or country.

Why programs choose ScholarshipCommittee

Not a form builder. Not a grants database.

It ends the chasing.: A live dashboard shows who has scored and who hasn't. The reminder round that used to eat a week becomes something you check between other work.
It documents the conflicts.: Volunteers know applicants — that's what makes them good reviewers and it's also the risk. Declaring it during scoring means you never learn about it after the award.
It answers the donor's question.: When someone asks how the committee reached its decision, you have every reviewer's scores on every application instead of a spreadsheet and an email chain.
It asks nothing of your volunteers.: No account, no password, no training. A link on their phone and the same criteria as everyone else — which is the only way a volunteer process stays consistent.
It costs $37 to find out.: Unlimited applications and unlimited reviewers for your first cycle. No procurement, no annual contract, no board approval to get started.
It treats the decision seriously.: Scholarship committees make real decisions about real students. The process should reflect that, even when everyone involved is a volunteer.

ScholarshipCommittee does not collect applications, disburse awards, or manage your donor records — the tools you already have do that. It handles the review in the middle: how a committee of volunteers evaluates the applications and how you document what they decided.

A program director who has been asked by a donor to explain how the committee reached its decision — and couldn't fully answer — already knows this problem.

Get in touch

Questions about ScholarshipCommittee, your review criteria, or how a cycle runs with volunteer reviewers? Email us directly — tell us how many applications you review and how many reviewers you coordinate, and we'll get back to you.

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First scholarship cycle $37 — unlimited applications, unlimited reviewers. Nothing to sign up for before you write to us.