How Lasagna Love used automation from day one to scale

Challenge

Manually sending welcome emails every time a volunteer submitted an application was a time-consuming task—it slowed down onboarding and prevented the nonprofit from growing to serve more communities faster.

Solution

When a new volunteer submits a signup form via Squarespace, a Zap automatically populates a Google Sheet with all the raw data and sends them a custom welcome email. Then lookup tables identify their zip code and their regional leader is automatically Cced on the email.

Results

Instead of manually creating and sending each volunteer's welcome email, the Lasagna Love team can now focus on how to grow their volunteer base and feed more families. Volunteers are able to onboard quickly and begin making an impact faster.

Challenge

For each new volunteer signing up, the team needs to create a new Google Sheet for the volunteer to receive assignments. They built each sheet manually, one-by-one at first.

Solution

Lasagna Love created a new volunteer welcome email workflow. Any time someone submitted a volunteer application, Squarespace automatically created a personalized Google Sheet and attached it to their welcome email.

Results

By adding this step to their workflow, the entire onboarding process is automated and a new volunteer is ready to receive assignments within minutes.