Case Study: Canada Sews scales a massive volunteer mask-sewing network with Zapier

How a Canadian volunteer group organized a massive mask-sewing effort with Zapier

Canada Sews, a Canadian volunteer group led by Lee-Anne Moore-Thibert, needed a faster, safer way to coordinate a rapidly growing PPE mask-sewing network during COVID-19. With thousands of volunteers and requests coming in through online forms, the team struggled with manual data entry, spreadsheet errors, and the risk of losing or overwriting information.

Zapier helped Canada Sews automate its workflow by moving form responses from Google Sheets into Airtable and sending daily reminders in Discord for volunteer coordinators. The result was a more centralized system with province-specific views, less human error, and hundreds of hours saved on data entry, helping Canada Sews scale to manage 8,000 volunteers more effectively.

Canada Sews

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