RMG Digital Solutions The Scholarship Platform
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The scholarship platform

A scholarship in your name, prominent in search and AI answers.

Search your name a few months after an award is running and the scholarship is there: the award page on a university domain, the listing in a national scholarship database, a recipient describing what it paid for. Ask ChatGPT or Gemini who you are and funding education has become part of the answer.

None of that was written by you, or by us. It is what happens when a university administers an award and publishes it, which is what universities do. A student's tuition falls at the same time, which is the other half of the reason this exists.

Why this works

Search engines and AI systems weight material by who produced it. A page you publish about yourself carries less than a page a university publishes about an award it administers, and no amount of effort on the first closes that gap. This is a route to the second kind.

It is also durable. The award page stays up, the database listing stays indexed, and each year's recipient adds another. Search positions move and model answers drift, but a record of awards made in your name accumulates rather than decays.

What it takes to get there is the work: eligibility criteria that hold up, outreach that reaches applicants who qualify, review against a published standard, coordination with financial aid offices, and a record that still stands up years later.

That apparatus is the platform. It is the difference between funding a scholarship and writing a check, and it is why the firm runs the program rather than handing a client a list of universities to call.

The record

Where it has gone so far.

Awards made
212
Institutions
123
Applications received
20,000+

As of August 2026. Recipients are published with their name, institution, and year, with their consent.

How it works

From a client funding an award to a student owing less.

Eight steps. The firm runs the program; the money moves from the client to the financial aid office to the student's account.

Running the award

Handled by the firm.

  1. The award is established

    A client funds an award and sets its terms: the amount, the field or circumstance it is meant for, and the name it carries.

  2. Outreach

    Eligibility and required materials are published so a student can decide whether to apply without contacting anyone. The award is circulated to institutions and scholarship databases.

  3. Applications close

    A stated deadline, the same for everyone.

  4. Review against the published criteria

    Applications are assessed on the stated criteria. The criteria are public so an applicant knows what is being weighed.

  5. The award is decided

    A recipient is selected and notified, along with their institution.

Paying the award

Client to financial aid office to student.

  1. The client pays the institution

    The client pays the financial aid office directly at the school the student attends, which is how external scholarships are normally handled.

  2. Financial aid credits the student's account

    The office applies the award to the student's account under its own procedures.

  3. The student owes less

    The balance falls by the amount of the award, and the award becomes part of the published record attached to the client's name.

Institutions

Awards have reached students at 123 institutions.

Community colleges, state systems, private universities, a high school, and a flight school.

  • Arizona State University
  • Auburn University
  • Bon Secours Memorial College of Nursing
  • Boston College
  • Brown University
  • California State Polytechnic University
  • California State University
  • Colorado State University
  • Columbia College Chicago
  • Concordia University
  • Concordia University Wisconsin
  • Cornell University
  • Creighton University
  • DePaul University
  • Drexel University
  • Duke University
  • Eastern Florida State College
  • El Centro College
  • Elmhurst University
  • Emerson College
  • Emory University
  • Flagler College
  • Florida Atlantic University
  • George Mason University
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Gettysburg College
  • Grand View University
  • Harvard University
  • Idaho State University
  • Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Indiana University
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Keck Graduate Institute
  • Kirtland Community College
  • Lamar University
  • Lewis University
  • Life University
  • Manhattan College
  • McGill University
  • Middle Tennessee State University
  • Midway University
  • Montana State University
  • Montana State University-Northern
  • Morgan State University
  • Mt. San Antonio College
  • New York Institute of Technology
  • New York Medical College
  • New York University
  • North Dakota State College of Science
  • Northampton Community College
  • Northeastern University
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Northern Virginia Community College
  • Northwestern University
  • Oklahoma City University
  • Olivet Nazarene University
  • Pacific States Aviation
  • Princeton University
  • Queens College
  • Quinnipiac University
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Sacramento City College
  • Sacred Heart University
  • San Jose State University
  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  • Simmons University
  • Southern New Hampshire University
  • Spokane Community College
  • St. Francis College
  • St. John's University
  • Stanford University
  • Tacoma Community College
  • Texas Tech University
  • Texas Woman's University
  • The University of Alabama
  • The University of Texas at Austin
  • The University of Texas at El Paso
  • Tuskegee University
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of California, Los Angeles
  • University of California, San Diego
  • University of Central Florida
  • University of Cincinnati
  • University of Connecticut
  • University of Delaware
  • University of Denver
  • University of Florida
  • University of Louisiana
  • University of Maryland
  • University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • University of Massachusetts Boston
  • University of Miami
  • University of Michigan
  • University of Missouri
  • University of Nebraska at Omaha
  • University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • University of North Dakota
  • University of North Texas
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of South Dakota
  • University of South Florida
  • University of Southern California
  • University of Tampa
  • University of Utah
  • University of Virginia
  • University of Washington
  • University of West Florida
  • University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  • Valencia College
  • Villa Maria Academy High School
  • Virginia Tech
  • Viterbo University
  • Voorhees University
  • Washington State University
  • Washington University
  • West Chester University
  • West Texas A&M University
  • Widener University
  • William Rainey Harper College
  • Wilmington University
  • Yale University

Fund an award.

If you want your giving to be a program rather than a check, this is the apparatus for it. Tell us the cause and we will build the scholarship around it.

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The first conversation and the preliminary review that follows it are free, and nothing is owed afterwards.