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Founder & CEO

The WizeHive Team is thoughtful, intentional, and focused on excellence in their product and their customer relationships.

Program Officer

The support staff is very responsive and helpful whenever I cannot figure out how to do something within the system on my own. Our users have given great feedback on the ease of use as well.

Director of Programs

I like the simplicity of the design. I am still in the early implementation phase, but I think this will be a great long-term solution for the Foundation.

Director of Program Advancement

The software is user friendly and the training I received on it was excellent.

There are a lot of useful functions that give us some flexibility on how we communicate with applicants. The team at WizeHive is super knowledgeable and attentive to your questions and concerns.

Project Coordinator

Emails usually end up in spam folders. You can't duplicate applications or move them to the next year's cycle which is frustrating if you've deferred an applicant.

Foundation Manager

Not only did Zengine improve our professional look, it was easy for our grant applicants to use. The Foundation Board of Director's was reviewing all applications via a shared drive or on paper.

Administrative Assistant

It is difficult to find a negative aspect to this software.

WizeHive is incredibly useful for program management, thanks to its integrated portal editor/publisher, as well as the highly editable data display.

Scholarship/Project Director

Zengine has been a great product for our organization. We were previously using Select, by WizeHive, which is being replaced with Zengine.

Director George Kress Foundation

WizeHize is easy to navigate and their customer service team is available and responsive when needed.

Scholarship Director

The only thing that I dislike right now is that I'm not able to pull email delivery reports on auto-emails that are set up based on folder movements.

Director, Center for Healthy Nonprofits

They knew how to build my confidence and competence.

Director of Student Affairs

We used the Wizehive platform and just recently transitioned to Zengine which is supported by the same group. What we like best is how user friendly it became after our training.

Executive Director

It is flexible and allows me to adjust and adapt the applications questions based on our needs without requiring potentially costly support from the software provider.

Scholarship Coordinator 

For us, this software will literally replace a person. The time it will save us in data collection and processing alone is worth every penny.

Board of Director, Volunteer

WizeHive was very easy to work with and helped us go from a manual, photocopy, spreadsheet approach into a fully integrated online system.

Implementation Specialist

Review Portal, user-directed configurations limited.

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Great experience working with Wizehive - knowledgeable, supportive assistance, product easy to use!

Overall, it was a great experience and liked how the trainings were saved in our folder. 

Scholarship Implimentation Review

We did not realize the level of technical competence that is required to customize and use the software. Working with the Learning & Development Specialist has been critical to our use of the software. 

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Our experience with WizeHive has been one of our best and most rewarding vendor relationships.  We had a very smooth implementation process and the support received from WizeHive has been amazing- I wish we could have more vendor relationships like this one! 

Excellent vendor experience

Overall, we have had a positive experience with WizeHive. The staff are responsive to our needs, and take the time to understand what we need from the system in order to meet our goals. As noted about, our implementation lead went "over and above" in developing customize forms/processes to help our grant making process go as smoothly as possible. He also took a lot of time ensure our organization's staff were well trained on how to use the system.

Review of WizeHive for Application and Grant Management

WizeHive was very easy to work with and helped us go from a manual, photocopy, spreadsheet approach into a fully integrated online system.  This allowed us to have a greater reach to high school students who might want to apply to our program.

HSF Applicant and Student Portal Review

My overall experience with WizeHive is great. Our previous scholarship management solution did not evolve quickly enough to meet the demands of our growing organization. WizeHive provides consistent updates and quality of life changes to meet these growing demands on a reliable basis.  

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Manage applications & team workflows with Wizehive

My overall experience has been a good one. The best experience I have is when I can speak with a person at Wizehive for what are complicated questions that I have. It's hard to express your issues in a support ticket, because of that you don't always get the right answers and have to keep asking thru the support ticket. If you could speak with someone, they better understand what you're trying to do and your issues.

Simple to use - self explanatory

The objective was to deploy a system to support subgrant management for a growing, flexible, and dispersed organization. This was to be supported by a successful rollout to internal and external users to ensure the system was used.The WizeHive team, especially the team lead in charge of the assignment, was committed and focused on offering a working solution. The customer service team has been supportive during rollout and has ensured to support our team during implementation.Equality Now appreciates the level of professionalism shown in handling the assignment, coupled with great patience and expertise in developing solutions of such a complex nature.

WizeHive: Client Review 

Good follow through and process went as described. Friendly people and very helpful in determining needs for folks new to this process. 

Functional software platform for mid-size organizations

The WizeHive Team is thoughtful, intentional, and focused on excellence in their product and their customer relationships. I know several team members by name and consistently receive personalized, immediate, and knowledgeable support. From the beginning, WizeHive provides a customized experience for every client, and the support and personal touch do not end after the contract is signed. Our team is excited about all of the time and systems we have saved by switching to WizeHive.

Powerful Database with Unlimited Functionality and Incredible Support

Prior to purchasing the WizeHIve software, our institution was using multiple layered spreadsheets to manage scholarship applicant intake and selection. Then, manually sending communications to applicants using Microsoft Outlook. Our ability to access data and generate reports was also limited as it also was a very manual process. Introducing the concept of a scholarship portal to our students has been a great experience. We are improved our efficiency internally but more importantly; we are providing a better user-experience for our students. 

From Spreadsheets to a Streamlined Program!

We LOVE WizeHive

Great product and even better customer service.

Creative & Efficient Grant Management System

New to WizeHive but loving it so far.

Zengine is intuitive to use, and is supported by excellent reference materials and resources for administration. This product is excellent!

Well-designed and customizable solution for grant applications and reviews

Great product and great support

Very good! Excellent employees - great attention during building and implementation.

New to Wizehive

It was a nice process, the team as very accesible and fast in the process.

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Very positive, very responsive to our needs and requests. 

Great product for grant management

Great customer service

The Jack and Jill Foundation runs about 9 different grant programs each year and these programs overlap with the prior year(s) programs. Using a Grant Management Platform is critical to our success and sanity. We've had much success with WizeHive Select and are excited about the functionality and feature gains for our Applicants, Reviewers, and Administrators using WizeHive Zengine.

Simple and Clean

Working with Wizehive has greatly increased efficiency and helped us to organize and analyse data to make more informed decisions. 

Wonderful company with lots of flexibility for an astounding number of solutions!

Program Manager

WizeHive Does The Job.

Emily H.:                                              My name is Emily. I'm a program manager at Vermont Association for the Education of Young Children. And I would give WizeHive a 5-out-of-5 rating.
                                                       Before we were using WizeHive, we were actually processing applications by pen and paper. So we had not yet chosen a digital system for intaking people seeking our services.
                                                       We chose WizeHive in order to make a better experience for people going through our application processes, and so that our communication loops with them would be streamlined more effectively. And we also chose WizeHive so that our teams who receive those applications could have an easier time managing their caseloads.
                                                       Getting started with WizeHive was relatively easy because they provided a lot of training via videos and also live training with a representative from their team who walked us through the functions of an admin and also provided a space to create a sample workspace, kind of like a playground or a sandbox, to get use of all the features.
                                                       Before getting started with WizeHive, I would recommend being super clear on what your application process needs to look like in terms of your team managing that process, the communication loops you'll have with applicants, and just really speccing out the workflow so that the WizeHive implementation team can go ahead and create that workflow as you asked for. And then also, post-implementation, another thing to consider is how you are going to train your team to be able to feel comfortable using whatever the implementation team has created for you in WizeHive.

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