Anyone who runs on volunteers. If you’ve ever passed a clipboard around, sent a “reply-all if you can help” email, or kept a spreadsheet of who’s coming, this is for you.
Parents are busy and hate making accounts. Send one link in the newsletter and let them pick a shift between pickups.
Field day and the fall festival are a one-date schedule each.
Example scheduleReading buddies, every Tuesday and Thursday
Front-office help, testing proctors and event-night volunteers, without a spreadsheet passed between three people.
Volunteers see only each other's names on the public schedule, never emails or phone numbers.
Example scheduleSpring testing week
Story time helpers, shelving, summer reading and the big book sale, from one place you can share on the library's website.
Weekly story time helpers run as a repeating schedule.
Example scheduleFriends of the Library book sale
Distribution days, drivers, sorting and store pickups. Some jobs need a fixed day; others just need doing sometime that week.
Staffing as a range is how pantries already talk: “3 to 4 drivers”.
Example scheduleSaturday distribution, every week
Fundraisers and community events run almost entirely by members: a weekly fish fry, the gift shop, a food festival that feeds the whole town. Share one link and longtime members and first-time helpers sign up the same way.
Fish fry Fridays and weekly gift shop shifts run as a repeating schedule; the festival is a one-date schedule.
Example scheduleLebanese food festival, Saturday
Dog walking, kennel cleaning and adoption events, with enough hands every day and nobody doing every shift.
Job descriptions let you mention any training or waiver before someone signs up.
Example scheduleWeekend dog walking
One date, a list of jobs, done. Share the link and see what's still short at a glance.
Volunteers get a calendar invite and a reminder the day before.
Example schedule5K fun run
Concessions, scorekeeping and field setup across a season, shared fairly between families.
Families can see who else is signed up, which tends to fill the gaps.
Example scheduleFall season concessions
If the work can be written down as jobs, how many people each needs, and when, it fits. The build your first schedule tutorial shows all three kinds of schedule in about five minutes.
Free to use. Your volunteers never make an account.