Case Study: Fish & Wildlife Compensation Program achieves paperless, centralized grants management in 9 months with SmartSimple Cloud

How FWCP digitized their grants management data into one centralized, paperless platform all within 9 months

The Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program, funded by BC Hydro and partners, was struggling to manage a rapidly growing grants workload using emails, spreadsheets, Word documents and physical folders, and needed a secure, automated Canadian solution deliverable within a 6–9 month window. After evaluating vendors, they selected SmartSimple Cloud (SmartSimple Cloud for Government Funding with Premium Support) to replace their manual process and meet strict privacy and ROI requirements.

SmartSimple Cloud delivered a fully configured system on schedule, automating application intake, online reviewing, digital signatures, PDF generation, reminders and end-to-end reviewer tracking. The SmartSimple Cloud implementation eliminated most manual pain points, cut binder production from dozens of hours to 30 seconds, generated more than $50,000 in annual resource savings, streamlined reporting, and produced a >75% “very good” or “excellent” applicant satisfaction rating.

Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program

Marc Nielsen

Project Manager and Business Analyst Test Lead BC Hydro