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GROW Central Florida was a brand new and expanding nonprofit organization in dire need to “grow” out of their paper-based management system. With an administrative team of one, too much time was getting lost tracking down applicant information through emails and collecting information through different filing systems and Excel spreadsheets.

Helping your grantees stay on top of their reporting can be a lot of work, it’s vital in helping you track the impact your investments are making.

The National Commercial Bank of Jamaica (NCB) Foundation was managing their grants programs with a disjointed process. Applications were cobbled together with a combination of manual and digital processing methods and there was no effective way of consolidating all of the applications and data they were gathering. An immediate solution was needed in order to simplify the process and centralize all related activities under one system that could manage it all. Within two weeks, SmartSimple delivered a robust grants management system that provided a solution to the NCB Foundation’s immediate needs all while leaving them with the flexibility to grow and scale their system as their needs became more complex.

Post-grant reporting is a vital last step in the grant process. It’s not only confirmation that you’re investing in the right places, but it’s also a way of demonstrating the full impact of those investments against your organization’s mission and objectives.

Simplifying your review process starts with simplifying your forms so that they’re easy to navigate and intuitive to complete. SmartSimple offers the right mix of flexibility and automation to enable you to make review forms pain-free complete for any reviewer.