Case Study: Team Rubicon achieves 4‑hour‑to‑2‑minute volunteer recruiting with Cornerstone OnDemand

Reducing Disaster Relief Volunteer Recruiting From 4 Hours to 2 Minutes

Team Rubicon is a nonprofit that mobilizes military veterans and first responders into rapid disaster-relief teams worldwide, onboarding roughly 200 new volunteers a week. Their paper- and spreadsheet-based volunteer system was decentralized and manual, making deployments slow and fragile—recruiting and coordinating a single volunteer could take up to four hours.

By implementing Cornerstone Connect, Learning and Extended Enterprise with API integrations for background checks and notifications, Team Rubicon cut administrative verification and deployment readiness to two minutes. The platform delivers training instantly, enables fast mass communication, and improved deployment accuracy—Team Rubicon sent 60 responders to Nepal with only one phone call and zero misses.

Team Rubicon

Pat Ross

National Membership Coordination