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Awardees helps organizations manage people, projects, and funding with confidence during a time of shrinking capacity and rising pressure.
The challenges organizations are facing
The challenges organizations are facing
Teams managing grants and contracts are being asked to do more with less.
Funding is unstable, staffing is stretched, and critical work relies on spreadsheets and manual coordination.
Organizations face:
• Disconnected tools
• Constant staffing and funding changes
• Rising audit and reporting pressure
• Leaders pulled into operational triage instead of strategy
The result is lost time, rising risk, and avoidable labor cost.
The real cost of doing this manually
The real cost of doing this manually
220 hours/month
220 hours/month
spent coordinating staffing, changes, redeployments, and compliance.
x $70-90/hour
x $70-90/hour
blended labor cost across managers, directors, and executives.
= $184k-238k/year
= $184k-238k/year
in avoidable labor tied up in manual work.
Plus:
Plus:
$30k-150k/year
$30k-150k/year
spent on systems that still require parallel manual processes.
5 - 10% underspend
5 - 10% underspend
often $150k-600k+ left on the table instead of being used
Total Annual Impact
Total Annual Impact
$364k-$988k+ lost to inefficiency
$364k-$988k+ lost to inefficiency
Awardees helps teams reduce labor waste, avoid underspending, and replace scattered tools with one clear system.
Why this matters now
Why this matters now
Teams today are managing more awards with fewer staff, shifting priorities, and growing pressure to maximize every dollar. Many organizations have faced layoffs or reductions in contract support. Funders expect cleaner spend patterns and faster adjustments, yet most teams are operating with tools that were not built for this work.
Awardees helps teams stay aligned, move faster, and protect dollars that would otherwise go unused.
What Awardees includes
What Awardees includes
Roster
Roster
Centralizes staffing, allocations, and real time changes.
AI assisted suggestions help assign people based on skills and experience.
Vault
Vault
All contracts and award documents in one place, organized and audit ready.
Pulse
Pulse
Live compliance and deliverables tracking across all awards.
“I built Awardees after years of managing post-award chaos manually. Operations teams needed a better way, so I built the system I wished existed. ”
“I built Awardees after years of managing post-award chaos manually. Operations teams needed a better way, so I built the system I wished existed. ”
Dana Hawkins, Founder
Dana Hawkins, Founder
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