Process a Scholarship Award

After creating a scholarship award and scheduling the payments, you can create scholarship checks. Each student awardee needs an up-to-date student number because the student name and their number will print on the check stub. This allows your foundation to write one check to a school for numerous student scholarship awards.

1. Navigate to Scholarships page and click the Open Scholarships bucket.
2. Click the Scholarship ID to be paid.
   
    
3. Click [pay].
   • The student awardee needs an up-to-date student number prior to the creation of the grant.  
     
      
4. Click the Charity Status Checked option.
   • [guidestar charity check] - CommunitySuite integrates with Guidestar and runs a charity check to verify the nonprofit status of organizations.
   • [manually checked] - Manually run a charity check.
   • If No Charity Status Check is checked on the Grantee's profile, skip this step.
     
      
5. Pay the scholarship.
   • Pay a Scholarship Award - Post & Get Approval - This applies to all scholarships that have not been set to auto approve. The defined approvers must approve the grant before a voucher can be created.
   • Pay a Scholarship Award - Auto Approval - Any scholarship that is set to auto approve will bypass the grant approval process and will move directly into an open voucher status.
6. Pay the voucher.
7. Print and post the check for the scholarship award.