Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust Unifies Grants, Awards, and Marketing on One Powerful Platform

“At TSET, we work toward improving the health and well-being of Oklahomans every day. Coastal’s partnership to implement Salesforce brought a team of professionals to help bring this project to life. Our teams worked collaboratively to translate our business processes into the digital platform so we could continue to expand our offerings and provide a great customer experience to our grantees.”

– Lance Thomas, TSET Chief of Staff

Challenge

The Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust (TSET) is a state agency working to improve public health in Oklahoma through grants, research, and programs that reduce tobacco use and promote healthy living. TSET recognized an opportunity to modernize its systems with tools that better support collaboration, outreach and long-term organizational growth. As TSET’s programs continued to expand, the agency needed tools that could help its teams work more efficiently and communicate more effectively with the communities they serve.

To keep pace with its expanding programs, TSET identified several areas where improved systems could strengthen internal operations.

  • Application and award tracking relied on manual cross-sheet processes.
  • Payment workflows were managed outside the state’s finance system, increasing administrative load.
  • Marketing needed more integrated access to program information to support timely and data-driven outreach.
  • Lacked an agency-wide system for customer relationship management and comprehensive grants management. 

TSET partnered with Coastal to implement a comprehensive, end-to-end Salesforce solution.

Solution

Working with Coastal, TSET implemented a platform to match their current and future vision. The new platform unifies grants, payments, and outreach, providing TSET with a single source of truth to manage their full workflow with clarity and ease.

Key elements of the solution included:

  • A seamless, end-to-end Grants Management platform built on Agentforce Public Sector (formerly Public Sector Solutions).
  • A smooth payment experience achieved through integration with the state's finance system. 
  • The use of Agentforce MuleSoft for integration across platforms.
  • Marketing automation tools using Agentforce Marketing (formerly Marketing Cloud) to support applicant journeys and elevate public awareness of TSET’s impact.

Results

With an integrated platform in place, TSET now manages the full grants lifecycle in a single, reliable system that improves visibility, coordination and long-term scalability.

By replacing manual processes and disconnected tools, TSET has achieved streamlined operations, improved transparency, and amplified their impact across Oklahoma.

The results of the new system include:

  • Applications are now submitted, reviewed, and awarded entirely online through a live portal. This provides applicants with a seamless and frictionless process, while staff gain full visibility into every application, award, and program.
  • Teams are working more efficiently, free from the burden of manual tracking and patchwork tools. The smooth payment experience achieved through integration with the state's finance system eliminates the need for staff to manually track and process payments.
  • A unified system now gives stakeholders the clarity they need to guide mission-focused work, helping TSET scale its programs and advance statewide health outcomes.

Clouds & Products

  • Agentforce Public Sector
  • Agentforce Marketing
  • Agentforce MuleSoft
  • Grants Management