Case Study: Arbor Day Foundation reduces scheduling friction and saves time with Calendly

How Arbor Day Foundation manages 300+ global projects and grows their impact with Calendly

The Arbor Day Foundation, which leads reforestation and urban greening projects in more than 60 countries, struggled with manual scheduling that slowed collaboration across hundreds of tree-planting initiatives. Using Calendly, the Community Trees team had to deal with firewall issues, time zone confusion, and email-heavy coordination that often took five to ten messages just to set one meeting.

Calendly solved this by giving the Arbor Day Foundation custom scheduling links, Microsoft Outlook sync, Meeting Polls, event buffers, and automated reminders through Calendly Workflows. As a result, scheduling that once took half a dozen emails now takes one, helping the team keep 300+ projects on track each year while improving the experience for partners and freeing up more time for mission-driven work.

Arbor Day Foundation

Amy Lester

Project Coordinator for the Ventures Team