Formalized processes and easy to manage

It helps to formalize the process of charitable funding requests and provides tangible data that we can easily understand and work with. It helps eliminate a lot of manual work as well. Before we used Submittable, we would get all kinds of requests and would have to do a lot of leg work to ensure everyone met eligibility requirements. We would also have to email back and forth asking for specific documents that we needed. Now, everything is pretty much handled by the application, including eligibility (for the most part -- we do have to do our due diligence to ensure those who have applied fit the requirements, but we have a lot fewer applicants that are not aware of our requirements).

It has taken away more of the human touch with communication, like in the initial periods of application, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. Before it was very subjective, and this way makes it more objective -- it could be problematic with just winging it. At least this way, we can really compare and contrast applications and accurately weigh scores for it instead of "Yes" or "No".