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#WebinarWednesday Recap: Why Is Nobody Applying To Your Program? How Do You Solve It?
Why is nobody applying to my program? If you tuned into our live webinar last week on the reasons behind low application numbers for your programs and what you could […]

Announcing This Year’s Winner of the OpenWater Scholarship
“We created the OpenWater Scholarship to help foster the next generation of marketers, software developers, sales professionals and entrepreneurs.” We’re proud to award this year’s OpenWater Scholarship – a $1,500 […]

How using Excel to manage your Application and Review process is hurting your program’s reputation
OpenWater’s advantage as a comprehensive solution for Associations is in its ability to manage any application and review process using software built for just that – managing application data and […]

Welcoming Aaron to OpenWater HQ!
Aaron joins the OpenWater Head Office as the newest addition to our Lead Generation Team. Where are you from? I was born in the US, but have pretty […]

3 Reasons Why Your Reviewers are Always Late
The reviewing deadline is tomorrow but the reviewers are nowhere near complete. What’s going on? While it may sometimes feel like you have to herd cats, the truth […]

OpenWater partners with Grant Professionals Association for #IGPD2019
Overland Park, KS: OpenWater has partnered with the Grant Professionals Association (GPA) to celebrate the fifth annual International Grant Professionals Day on March 8, 2019. International Grant Professionals Day […]

Integrate to Innovate: An Insider’s Look into OpenWater Integrations
What Do B2B Buyers Look for When Evaluating Software Solutions? Integrations. In today’s results-oriented and customer-focused business landscape, companies want and need their systems to work seamlessly with no […]

Saying Goodbye to PDF Submissions and Hello to an Abstracts Software
Let’s say that you are an executive director planning an abstracts conference. What are your two biggest goals? If it were me, it would be to maximize revenue and maximize […]

Lessons From The Water Cooler
We’ve recently partnered with Capterra, a website platform that helps businesses compare and find software solutions they need. Around the time of our mid-year check-in, Vivian, our wonderful rep at […]

Skipping the Race to the Floor: Rethinking Overhead in the Association Community
What is Overhead? Based on the definitions found in the Instructions to the Form 990, a non-profit generally has three cost categories: Program, Management & General, and Fundraising. Program and […]