Case Study: Allies for Community Business meets 10x demand for small-business funding with Smartsheet

Allies for Community Business connects 37,000 small businesses to funding with Smartsheet

Allies for Community Business, a nonprofit supporting small businesses, faced the challenge of managing a massive surge in demand for emergency funding programs during the pandemic. Their previous disconnected tools, including spreadsheets and email, were inefficient and posed significant data integrity and security risks. They turned to the Smartsheet platform to find a unified solution.

By implementing Smartsheet, they created a complete system to manage the entire funding process, from application forms and secure data collection to real-time dashboards for partners. This allowed them to administer 15 emergency programs and deploy $396 million securely. The solution enabled them to scale their operations, serving over 37,000 businesses in 2020 compared to 1,300 in 2019—meeting a tenfold increase in demand with confidence and efficiency backed by Smartsheet.

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