Home Testimonials The Livestock Conservancy grants The Livestock Conservancy sees100% increase in submissions withGood Grants Industry Non profit Location North Carolina (USA) Client since 2019 Employees 0-50 More aboutTLC livestockconservancy.org Background The Livestock Conservancy is an American non-profit membership organisation that works to protect over 150 breeds of livestock and poultry from extinction. Through the generous contributions of grantors and private individuals, they work to enhance the competitiveness and stability of heritage breed livestock and poultry farms. About the grant program The Livestock Conservancy offers competitive small grants to heritage breed enterprises. Funds are used for the purchase, production and marketing of heritage breed animals, their products and agri-tourism. Program challenges before Good Grants We had a difficult time recruiting judges and applicants to the program.” Due to budget limitations, The Livestock Conservancy was using an online form for their grant application process. The system was difficult and cumbersome. “We had a difficult time recruiting judges and applicants to the program.” The Good Grants choice It was a lucky day when I stumbled upon the Good Grants website…” “I called numerous granting organisations to get suggestions for grant management programs and all of the suggestions were way out of our price bracket,” Beranger said. “It was a lucky day when I stumbled upon the Good Grants website and after a live conference call with one of the Good Grants representatives, I, and my fellow staff members, knew this was going to be the right program for our needs.” Implementation Responses from the technical advisers were fairly quick and their assistance was given with great patience!” Beranger found it quick and easy to get started. “What I like best about it is as a first-time user (and not a very technically oriented first-timer!) is that I was able to navigate the program and set up applications and review parameters fairly easily, thanks to the amazing online help. I often found the answers I needed with the content in the Need help? tab but I did on occasion need more help beyond that. Responses from the technical advisers were fairly quick and their assistance was given with great patience!” Outcomes Good Grants has dramatically improved our service to both applicants and reviewers.” In the livestock conservancy microgrant program’s first season with Good Grants, the organisation saw a 100 percent increase in applications and reviewers, Beranger said. “Good Grants has dramatically improved our service to both applicants and reviewers. It can be a real challenge to recruit reviewers because of the time commitment required in order to do a good job. But the feedback I got from them is they all enjoyed the experience and they felt it was a rewarding experience. For applicants, we had a greater number of people apply because it was so easy. This is particularly important for our organisation since for many of the applicants, this was the first grant they had ever applied for.” Favourite features “I love the flexibility of the program even at the Intro plan we chose to purchase.” Advice for others “Take advantage of the Good Grants pre-launch check”, Beranger said, which includes a check of the configuration to make sure the program is ready to accept applications. “These pre-launch checks were of enormous value to help work out all of the kinks in the setup process. Make sure you do multiple test runs for both reviewing and applications before launching a program.” Jeannette Beranger, The Livestock Conservancy Microgrants Program Back to all testimonials