What it is: Volunteer Spot could be just what you need to coordinate classroom helpers and volunteers. No more messy sign up clipboards, endless reply-all emails, reminder phone calls, phone tag, and weeks of scheduling to get parents actively involved in your classroom. Coordinating volunteers is easy, just schedule activities, invite volunteers, volunteers sign up with a simple click, and send reminders. You can easily schedule one day events like field trips, or multi-day sign up options for extended volunteer opportunities. You can specify if your need is a supply that needs to be brought or donated, or the need for a helper. Did I mention this is a completely FREE service?
How to integrate Volunteer Spot into the classroom: Volunteer Spot is an excellent time saver for your classroom or school events. It makes communication with potential volunteers simple and keeps you from back and forth communication that can zap your time. Setting up activities and volunteer events is simple and intuitive. It is much like setting up and sending an Evite. Volunteer Spot will even give you a unique URL that you can display on your classroom or school website. Inviting parents and community members into the classroom can be extremely enriching. It gives your students a sense of the importance of education when others are involved. Using Volunteer Spot makes it painless to coordinate volunteers in your classroom, no more excuses!
Tips: Be sure to tell your homeroom parents, coaches, and office staff about Volunteer Spot. It has the potential to make their lives easier and makes you look good in the process! 🙂
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Love this idea! So useful for clubs that have no time to meet during the day and no members available after school. I’ve used Ning but think this might work better for Key Club- will try it with our middle school Bridge Builders.
For scheduling, I do like Volunteer spot better than a Ning. Very easy to use!