ScholarMatch, a small nonprofit serving underprivileged students by crowdfunding college scholarships, started using an Airtable database as an inexpensive and flexible software solution for managing donors and donations. As the organization grew larger, and broadened its mission to include comprehensive college counseling services, ScholarMatch was able to easily adapt its database to fit its changing needs.
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ScholarMatch keeps all the information related to their students, donors, donations, program schedules and attendance, volunteers, alumni, press mentions, and much, much more in a comprehensive database, which allows them to see quickly how these different categories are interconnected in meaningful ways.
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Especially for a nonprofit without the budget to pay for an outside tech consultant to set up custom database software, Airtable provides a solution which is robust enough to handle complex problems and versatile enough to scale with a growing organization.
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This base is a simplified and redacted version of the database that ScholarMatch uses to run… well, basically, their entire organization. For a more detailed explanation of how ScholarMatch uses this base, check out this case study on For the Record, the Airtable blog.