Free Online Signup Sheets by VolunteerSpot Make Back-to-School Planning Easy for Parents & Teachers

July 27, 2010 - PRLog -- School carnivals, bake sales, football games, talent shows, classroom parties, and parents reading to the class are all activities that kids look forward to during the school year. For parents, back-to-school means making room in their already busy schedules to lend a helping hand. Whether it be volunteering in the classroom, planning a school fundraiser, or running the PTA, parent volunteers provide critical support to teachers and critical funds to their schools.

Most parents want to participate at their childrens’ schools, but need an invitation to get involved. Enter VolunteerSpot ( http://www.VolunteerSpot.com/school ), a free and easy online volunteer coordination tool that helps schedule, sign up and remind parent volunteers. VolunteerSpot’s new free eBook with Back-to-School Signup Sheet Examples shows how simple online sign up forms can make it easy for parents to jump on board and help out. http://www.volunteerspot.com/ebooks/BacktoSchool

“Volunteer Spot made it so easy to sign up to bring items for our teacher breakfast. What an easy way to be a working mom and stay involved!” writes Cindy H. of Asheville, North Carolina.

Teachers and parent volunteers have found they can save several hours a week in their planning and coordinating efforts through the use of VolunteerSpot. Once signed up, the bothersome late-night emails, last minute phone calls, and hard-to-read clipboard sign up sheets are completely eliminated.  

Erin W., a Kindergarten teacher in Austin, TX had this to say, “VolunteerSpot made it very easy to invite parents to sign up to read to the class. I’d make the schedule online and within two days it was completely full. My parents liked the automatic reminders when it was their turn to read.”

How it works:

1.   Teachers, Room Moms or Parent PTA leaders schedule activities on VolunteerSpot and invite volunteers via email or a link on their website or facebook page.
2.   Parents choose a spot and sign up with just one click.
3.   VolunteerSpot sends email confirmations and reminders to the parent volunteers.

Here are a few ways parents and teachers are using VolunteerSpot to save time and power school activities and events:

•   Coordinating cafeteria and library volunteers
•   Signing up class parents as weekly readers and math-station helpers
•   Fundraisers such as school carnivals, walk-a-thons, and bake sales
•   Football concession stand volunteer scheduling
•   Coordinating meetings for PTA planning committees and graduation committees
•   Scheduling parent-teacher conferences


For more information and to help parents get started, please see our website: http://www.VolunteerSpot.com/school and view our free eBook with online signup sheet examples for back-to-school: http://www.volunteerspot.com/ebooks/BacktoSchool.

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About VolunteerSpot
Based in Austin, Texas, privately held VolunteerSpot ( http://www.VolunteerSpot.com ) is a free Web-based organization tool that powers grassroots volunteering at school and in the community. VolunteerSpot's easy online sign-up sheets save time, streamlines communication and makes it simple for more people to get involved. VolunteerSpot is perfect for coordinating groups for anything - PTA activities, carnivals and festivals, tournaments, service projects, mentoring sessions, group campouts, ministry meals, book fairs, swim meets, and more.... VolunteerSpot, DOING GOOD Just Got Easier!

Please visit our new back-to-school center: http://www.VolunteerSpot.com/school