Case Study: SickKids Foundation achieves streamlined grants management and deeper impact insights with SmartSimple Cloud

How the SickKids Foundation elevated their grant funding impact with a new grants management system

SickKids Foundation, the fundraising arm for The Hospital for Sick Children and Canada’s largest charitable funder of child health research, struggled with an outdated, paper-based grants process that overwhelmed its small National Grants Team. They were overpaying for a system that required volunteers to do hours of manual data entry and produced incomplete templates that limited impact reporting, so they turned to SmartSimple Cloud and its SmartSimple Cloud for Research Grants Management product.

SmartSimple Cloud implemented a centralized online grants-management system with hands-on implementation support, allowing SickKids Foundation to monitor applications and deadlines in advance, eliminate manual data entry, assign reviewers earlier, and produce richer tracking and impact reports. As a result, the Foundation now processes up to 100 applications per cycle and manages $1.8 million per grant cycle more efficiently, freeing staff time to create grantee profiles and pull impact statistics — improvements attributed to SmartSimple Cloud.

SickKids Foundation

Pam Gilliland

Granting and Hospital Relations Manager