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The traditional way of recruiting volunteers is very time-consuming. You make a list, email it to the class using an email list, and then the chaos starts. As people respond to your request, you have to assign items to each volunteer, notify volunteers that an item they volunteered for is already taken and suggest a different item… emails go back and forth for DAYS.
What a huge headache.
UpToUs offers a simple, elegant solution to managing volunteers. Once you join UpToUs and start a community for your classroom or sports team, use the Participation and Volunteering Application to let everyone in your community know about a new volunteering opportunity. Each community memeber is able to select the item she would like to bring. Once an item is selected, the other memebers can see that it’s no longer available.
What a relief: no more back and forth emailing about each volunteering request. It’s a quick and easy solution. Try it out today by logging into UpToUs.
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Up To Us is a great tool for all situations, not just classroom volunteering. It’s easy and fun to use. Check it out! I use it for getting my family together and for organizing my Scouts troop.