Pacific Gas & Electric Scholarship System

Orchestrate empowers employees to support California students through a scholarship program.

The Challenge

Pacific Gas & Electric supports California students with a variety of scholarships from their diverse Employee Resource Groups, or ERG’s. Through these resource groups, employees are able to support and encourage the next generation through ten scholarship programs.

Each ERG had a specific scholarship, therefore a different eligibility requirement. The review processes and application scoring also changed depending on the ERG.

The ten programs cover thousands of students, parents, educators, and volunteers.

Since 2012, we have partnered with PG&E with our comprehensive, feature-rich system to manage this process.

The Solution

The Orchestrate Application Management System provided the ideal turnkey platform for PG&E.

Tectonic created a multi-step application that allowed applicants the ability to apply for any of the scholarships through one reactive portal. This system allows for the robust and unique review process to be maintained within the same system.

Our team also took a proactive stance in coordinating, communicating, and training staff in the use of the application portal.

With responsive support throughout the cycle, PG&E has provided thousands of scholarships and millions of dollars of awards to college-bound students.

The Results

PG&E’s STEM scholarship program aims to build a better California. Just last year, their Employee Resource Groups awarded more than 200 scholarships. The scholarships awarded to these students ranged from $1,000 to $10,000. Collectively, over 35,165 applications have been processed using the Orchestrate platform.