Case Study: Islamic Relief Canada achieves a 75% increase in impact and speeds emergency aid delivery with Asana

Islamic Relief Canada increases its impact by 75% with Asana

Islamic Relief Canada (IRC) is the Burlington-based Canadian arm of a 3,500-employee global NGO, operating with a 50-person team and running 200+ projects that serve millions. Rapid growth exposed problems—siloed workflows, poor information sharing, gaps in financial compliance and audit trails, low employee engagement, and slow emergency response—that were limiting the organization’s ability to deliver aid and scale donor programs.

IRC rolled out Asana with leadership buy-in and phased training to centralize work, create paper trails for finance, standardize volunteer programs, reduce meetings, and align goals across teams. The platform created institutional memory and automated workflows, enabling faster collaboration and transparency; emergency responses launched 75% faster (cutting some response times from eight to two hours), organizational impact increased by 75%, and IRC improved compliance, volunteer engagement, and its ability to scale donor outreach.

Islamic Relief Canada

Usama Khan

Director of Finance