Common Grant Application vs Scholarship Commons

Common Grant Application is a customizable web system for managing grant and scholarship lifecycles, including online and paper-based applications. Grantmakers can create reusable forms for applications, recommendations and reports with text, document and media fields. Review workflows support evaluation steps, reviewer groups, scoring or ranking, notes and controls over evaluation visibility. Grantmakers can manage agreements, reports and payment amounts, then export payment information to a spreadsheet. Each application can contain up to two grant agreements and eight grant reports. Applicants pay nothing; grantmakers pay a monthly subscription starting at $175 a month. The Low Complexity plan covers one to two administrative users and 1–50 applications annually. Medium Complexity costs 250.00 USD monthly, and High Complexity costs 450.00 USD monthly. The browser-based service requires no installation and supports Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. Setup, support and training are included.

Scholarship Commons is a web-based service for managing scholarship processes online, from discovery and applications through evaluation and selection. It connects students, scholarship operating organizations, reviewers, and recommenders. The service automates sorting and compiling submitted documents, as well as online entry and delivery of evaluation work. Scholarship information is organized into six types, each with standardized workflows. The maker says scholarship work data is stored in the cloud for reuse and that digitized, standardized information can support big data analysis. Intended organizational customers include universities, scholarship foundations, local governments, public and nonprofit organizations, companies, and asset owners. Students, reviewers, and recommenders have a free membership plan with all features listed. Operating organizations must contact Scholarship Commons to register; their paid membership pricing is available by inquiry and can include customized scholarship posting and management. The service is optimized for Chrome. The site provides a contact form and lists [email protected] as its representative email address.