Case Study: Houston Minority Supplier Development Council (HMSDC) achieves a streamlined awards process and saves 100+ hours per award cycle with Submittable

Taking Minority Business Development to the Next Level

The Houston Minority Supplier Development Council (HMSDC) is a nonprofit that promotes growth among Minority Business Enterprises and runs an annual awards program that had become increasingly difficult to manage manually. Facing a two-step nomination workflow that generated hundreds of emails and tied up staff time, HMSDC adopted the Submittable platform after reviewing options and negotiating nonprofit pricing.

Using Submittable — including messaging, filtering, archiving, auto-responses and Onboarding services — HMSDC centralized nominations, enabled remote judging, and launched a new elections process. Submittable saved HMSDC over two weeks (100+ hours) of staff and reviewer time per award cycle, emptied inboxes, reduced last‑minute printing costs, and freed the team to focus on events and mission priorities.

HMSDC

Ingrid M. Robinson

President