If your organization is newly entering the scholarship space as a Scholarship Granting Organization (SGO), one of the first things you’ll encounter is a growing market of technology platforms designed to support scholarship administration. For most, evaluating those platforms feels like the first major operational decision. It shouldn’t be.
After more than a decade designing and launching education initiatives across the country, I’ve learned that the hardest parts of standing up a scholarship program rarely come down to software. They come down to operational clarity—knowing what experience you want families to have, how much you want to manage internally versus outsource, and how quickly you expect to scale. Get those questions right, and the right platform becomes much easier to find—and much more likely to actually work.
This is especially true right now. The passage of the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit (FSTC) is spurring organizations across the country to enter the scholarship space, and the administrative ecosystem serving them is still actively developing. Platforms are expanding functionality, refining their models, and adapting to evolving federal guidance, which means what a vendor offers today may look different six months from now.
That’s the landscape yes. every kid. foundation. set out to map. A Practical Guide to Tech Platforms, Operating Models and Tradeoffs walks through the core functions every SGO must perform, the different administrative models available to support them, and the questions organizations should be asking before selecting a partner or platform, whether you’re launching for the first time or evaluating your options under FSTC.
The goal isn’t to tell you what to choose. It’s to make sure you’re asking the right questions before you do.
Read the full guide below.
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