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For Canadian Student Unions

Your students deserve better than a Google Form.

Granta replaces spreadsheets, committee guesswork, and weeks of manual review. One platform that scores, prioritizes, and distributes student union funds consistently and fairly.

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Built for both sides

One platform. Two experiences.

Granta serves the administrators who manage the funds and the students who need them.

For Union Administrators

Replace weeks of manual review with consistent, defensible scoring.

  • →Configure weighted scoring criteria for each program. No more decisions based on who's reviewing that day.
  • →Auto-rank applications by need, eligibility, and equity factors.
  • →Generate audit-ready reports for your board and finance committee.
  • →Manage bursaries, emergency aid, and club grants from one dashboard.
  • →Union-branded portal. Your identity, your data, your rules.
For Students

Financial barriers shouldn't stop you from achieving your goals.

  • →Apply to every program your union offers from one simple portal.
  • →Track your application status in real time. No more wondering if anyone read it.
  • →Sensitive documents are encrypted, viewed but never downloaded, and deleted on schedule.
  • →Faster decisions mean funds arrive when you actually need them.
  • →One application can match you to multiple programs you qualify for.
Features

Consistency isn't a feature.
It's the whole point.

Every tool in Granta exists to make funding decisions faster, fairer, and defensible.

Weighted Scoring Engine

Define your criteria. Financial need, equity factors, community involvement. Assign weights and every application gets scored the same way, every time.

Multi-Program Management

Bursaries, emergency aid, and club grants in one place. Each program gets its own criteria, budget, and timeline.

Encrypted Document Vault

Students upload sensitive documents once. Reviewers can view but not download. Auto-destruction on a schedule that satisfies your union's privacy policy.

Equity Analytics

See who's applying, who's receiving, and where gaps exist. By program, by demographic, by term. Defend your decisions with data, not anecdotes.

Automated Eligibility Screening

Set your rules once. Applications that don't meet baseline criteria get flagged before committee review begins, saving hours of manual triage.

Real-Time Budget Tracking

Know how much is left in each fund, how much is committed, and how much is pending. Before your finance committee meets, not after.

How it works

Live in under a week.
No IT department needed.

Granta is designed for student unions. Lean teams, annual turnover, and zero appetite for a 6-month implementation.

Tell us your programs

Bursaries, emergency aid, club grants. We configure each one with your criteria, budget, and timeline.

Set your scoring weights

Financial need counts for 40%? Equity factors for 30%? You decide. The scoring engine does the rest consistently across every application.

Launch your portal

Your union-branded application portal goes live. Students apply through a clean, accessible interface. No more Google Forms.

Review and disburse

Applications arrive pre-scored and ranked. Your committee reviews the top candidates, approves with one click, and students get notified instantly.

Program types

One platform for everything
your union distributes.

If your union gives it out, Granta can manage the intake, scoring, and tracking.

Bursaries & Grants
Emergency & Hardship Aid
Food Security Vouchers
Equity & Identity Grants
Club & Group Funding
Transit Subsidies
Childcare Support
Certificate Distribution
Learning Cost Reimbursement
Why unions are switching

Sound familiar?

“How much someone gets shouldn't depend on who's reviewing that day. We needed a way to take the guesswork out of it.”
VP Equity, Student Union
“Our criteria weren't consistent. Different reviewers, different outcomes. That's not equitable.”
President, Student Union
“Processing bursary applications manually was taking weeks every cycle. We needed that time back.”
VP Operations, Student Union
“Financial barriers shouldn't stop students from reaching their goals. We want to get them the help they need, faster.”
Student Union Executive
Get started

See it with your own programs.

We'll set up a demo using your actual programs. Not a generic walkthrough. 30 minutes, no commitment.

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