Case Study: Alberta Emerald Foundation achieves crash-free, streamlined award and grant management with Submittable

Saving the Environment Just Got Easier to Manage

The Alberta Emerald Foundation, a Canadian nonprofit that runs the annual Emerald Awards and youth environmental grants, struggled with crashing software, slow downloads, and an uneven application process that disadvantaged some applicants—all while operating with only two full-time staff. To manage award and grant applications, surveys, and event registration more reliably, the foundation adopted Submittable as its application-management platform.

Submittable delivered a stable, supported workflow that consolidated full application materials, attachments, and judges’ notes in one place, allowed multimedia submissions to level the playing field, and routed technical questions to a responsive support team. The change eradicated software outages (0 software crashes), improved reviewer experience (12 happy judges), and significantly reduced administrative workload for Alberta Emerald Foundation while speeding issue resolution and increasing fairness for applicants.

Alberta Emerald Foundation

Gregory Caswell

Interim Executive Director