Capabilities

Award Management platform built to Discover, Raise, Run and Prove.

We implement and run the CommunityForce (opens in a new tab) Awards Management Platform as a managed service, so universities, non-profits and foundations can Discover, Raise, Run and Prove every scholarship and grant dollar.

Your challenges

Scholarship and grant programs run on spreadsheets, inboxes and good intentions, and the outcomes are hard to prove.

Universities, non-profits and foundations are under pressure to find new funding, steward the donors who give it, run fair and efficient application cycles, and show exactly what every scholarship and grant dollar achieved. Most teams do this across disconnected systems with limited staff, so funding is missed, applicants wait, and impact is hard to prove.

Common Pain Points

  • Discover: staff spend hours searching for funders and grant opportunities, with no clear view of which ones actually fit the mission.
  • Raise: donor and alumni records, campaigns and grant deadlines live in separate tools, so gifts and awards are hard to track against the funds they support.
  • Run: applications, recommendations and reviewer scores are collected by email and spreadsheet, slowing decisions and creating duplicate awards.
  • Prove: boards, donors and funders ask what their money achieved, and the answer takes weeks of manual reporting.
  • Funder Research
  • Donor & Alumni Records
  • Grant Deadlines
  • Application Forms
  • Reviewer Scoring
  • Impact Reporting

Our solutions

Discover, Raise, Run and Prove: implemented and managed by ENNCLOUD.

As the primary implementation partner for the CommunityForce platform, ENNCLOUD configures, launches and runs every stage of your funding lifecycle as a managed service. Your team focuses on donors, applicants and outcomes; we handle the platform.

Discover

Discover funding

Find the right funders before your competition does.

We build your funding profile, configure matching against foundation and federal sources, and set up the daily Funding Scout so your team starts each week with qualified opportunities.

CommunityForce Find funding screen showing ranked foundation matches with fit, eligibility and why each one fits

What we implement

  • Funding profile
  • Find funding: Explore and Matches
  • Read funders’ websites
  • Funding Scout Agent
  • Opportunity finder
  • Saved opportunities
Raise

Raise: donors and alumni

Donors, campaigns and giving, connected to the awards they fund.

We migrate your donor and alumni records, configure your fundraising stages and giving pages, and connect every gift to the fund it supports.

CommunityForce campaign page showing goal progress, amount raised, donors and recent gifts

What we implement

  • Donor CRM
  • Fundraising pipeline
  • Outreach
  • Campaigns and giving pages
  • Online giving pages
  • Gift reconciliation
  • Fund ledger
  • Donor impact reports
  • Fundraising insights
  • Ask Phoenix about your donors
Raise

Raise: grants

A grant pipeline from first match to final payment.

We import your current grant tracker, set up stages, owners and reminders, and configure payment and reporting tasks so nothing slips past a funder deadline.

CommunityForce grant pipeline board with grants in Researching, Preparing, Submitted, Won and Closed stages

What we implement

  • Stage dates
  • Repeating tasks
  • Outside partners
  • Calendar feeds
  • Document search
  • The award agreement, read
  • Grant payments
  • Next cycle
  • Import your tracker
  • Your fields, your columns
Run

Run: program design

Programs built once and reused every cycle.

We design your scholarship and grant programs, eligibility rules and application forms with your team, then turn them into templates you can roll forward each year.

CommunityForce Application Designer showing application details, sections and application settings

What we implement

  • Program builder
  • Department fund postings
  • Application designer
  • Smart forms that adapt to the applicant
  • Calculated fields
  • Pre-qualification screening
  • One application, many opportunities
  • Reusable program templates
Run

Run: attract applicants

A mobile-first experience for applicants, recommenders and nominators.

We brand and launch your applicant portal, configure recommendations, nominations and invitations, and support applicants and staff through every cycle.

CommunityForce Applicant Dashboard showing each application section with its completion status and progress

What we implement

  • Applicant dashboard
  • Mobile-first sign-in and registration
  • Autosave
  • Document upload
  • Apply together
  • Applying on someone’s behalf
  • Multi-language display
  • In-app help
  • Recommendation requests
  • Nominations
  • Application invitations
  • Referrals
Run

Run: review

Fair, fast review that committees actually finish.

We set up your rubrics, committees and multi-stage workflows, automate reviewer assignment, and monitor progress so decisions land on time.

CommunityForce Automated Scoring screen with rules that award points for budget and population served

What we implement

  • Reviewer portal
  • Review committees and groups
  • Automatic applicant assignment
  • Multi-stage review workflows
  • Automated scoring
  • Committee progress tracking
  • Controlled information release
  • Reviewer score visibility
Run

Run: award and steward

One record of every dollar committed, and what follows it.

We configure awarding, renewals and post-award requirements, and connect thank-you letters and outcomes back to the donors who made each award possible.

CommunityForce Awards screen showing a fund's allocated, initial and final award totals with each applicant's score and award amounts

What we implement

  • Award management
  • Bulk awarding
  • Duplicate award detection
  • Renewals
  • Post-award requirements
  • Thank-you letters
  • Outcome and impact tracking
Run

Run: communicate

The right message at the right moment, automatically.

We write and brand your email and text templates, set the triggers for every stage of the cycle, and manage announcements on your behalf.

CommunityForce Notification Center listing the email templates sent at each stage of an application

What we implement

  • Email templates and automated notifications
  • Mass email
  • Text message notifications
  • Notification center
Prove

Prove outcomes

Show boards, donors and funders what the money achieved.

We build your standard reports and executive dashboards, train your team on self-service reporting, and deliver the impact reporting your stakeholders ask for.

CommunityForce donor impact view showing amount given, recipients reached and awards funded by fund

What we implement

  • Build-your-own reports
  • Standard reports library
  • Export to Excel and PDF
  • Fast large reports
  • Executive dashboards
  • Power BI analytics
  • Search everything

Integrations

Works with what you already run.

The platform is built on Microsoft Azure, with these integrations available today. ENNCLOUD configures and connects each one as part of your implementation, so your awards program fits into the systems your teams already use.

The public data sources used to discover funding need no customer setup and no keys.

  • Sign-in

    Single sign-on (SAML 2.0)

    Staff and students sign in with their existing institutional account.

  • CRM

    Salesforce

    Keeps records in sync with an organization’s existing CRM.

  • Signatures

    DocuSign

    Legally recognized electronic signatures on applications and award documents.

  • Analytics

    Microsoft Power BI

    Interactive analytics dashboards embedded inside the platform.

  • Payments

    Stripe

    Secure card payments and recurring gifts for online giving.

  • Text messaging

    Twilio

    Text-message notifications and verification.

  • Email

    SendGrid and SMTP email

    Reliable, high-volume transactional and campaign email.

  • Translation

    Google Translate

    Multi-language presentation of application content.