Case Study: Pohlad Family Foundation achieves secure, paperless grants management with SmartSimple Cloud

Pohlad Family Foundation streamlining their granting process for employee matching gift program

Pohlad Family Foundation was struggling with an aging grants platform that had become more expensive, slower to support, and too rigid for their needs, while much of their grants and employee matching gift work remained paper-based. To digitize and secure their processes they selected SmartSimple Cloud, implementing SmartSimple Cloud for Grants Management to replace the old system and eliminate manual mailing and document handling.

SmartSimple Cloud built a customizable, secure online grants system with responsive support, automated workflows and a Community Portal that streamlined communications and centralized document storage. The vendor’s solution made the team more efficient and accountable, cut the time required to process employee matching gifts to a fraction of the previous effort, eliminated lost documents, and drove strong user satisfaction—80% of users reported being satisfied and 70% had no problems using SmartSimple Cloud.

Pohlad Family Foundation

Gina DiMaggio

Program Officer