This post has been sponsored by SignUp Genius. Julia Hembree is here to share with you her personal review of how SignUp Genius can help you during the Back to School Season. All opinions are 100% her own.
Have you ever worked as a Parent Teacher Association President? What about as a room mom? Or a soccer mom? Sunday school teacher?
Most moms have done something along these lines and as we all know, these jobs are not easy! Sometimes it’s just exhausting to keep everything straight as you coordinate with teachers, administrators, coaches, and especially other busy parents. Long gone are the days of paper sign ups and making a million phone calls to update everyone on who’s bringing what snack to the next event.
Meet the next wave of sign ups…online! Aptly named SignUpGenius.com, this website offers free sign up sheets for individuals and organizations to coordinate volunteers.
This completely FREE site allows you coordinate volunteers for any event, any time, anywhere.
Simply create a sign up. They have a lot of options to choose from, so you can customize a picture and theme for your event. Then invite people through email. SignUp Genius handles the rest! Emails are sent to everyone you invited and people can choose what to sign up for and see what other people are doing. SignUp Genius even sends reminder emails a few days prior to your event so no one will ever miss what they signed up for. No more duplicate items, messy paper lists, long email reply chains, or reminder calls. SignUp Genius really is, well, genius!
I just completed a year as the Parent Council Chair at my son’s school and used SignUp Genius for ALL of our events! I have been a long time fan of this site and am familiar using it both as an administrator and a consumer. It could not be more user friendly and actually makes volunteering and organizing fun!
And, I must tell you, I am in LOVE with this funny and relate-able promo video. If you’ve ever organized anything, you can completely relate to all of the problems that SignUp Genius magically solves!
Save yourself time, hassle, and some sanity by using SignUp Genius for your next sign up needs. With back to school season upon us this is the perfect time to get acquainted with this website that will make your life easier.
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Have you fallen in love with SignUp Genius yet? I promise you will love it, but if you still need a bit of convincing, how about a 7″ Kindle Fire HD? SignUp Genius is generously kicking off the back to school season with free and easy sign ups, and is offering one lucky winner a Kindle Fire.
Enter below to win! Good luck and I hope you have a wonderful school year (with some very non-stressful volunteer organizing!)
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Julia is a full time mommy and part time writer who thrives on Starbucks, chocolate, and toddler kisses. When she is not chasing a toddler around, you can find her at her personal blog, http://www.elatedexhaustion.com, or playing on Twitter @juliahembree.
This would be great to monitor activities.
It could help set up things for all the sports my kids play.
I have never volunteered to organize anything – I am a total organization failure. But, I might would try if I had the Signup Genius!
It could help to remind me of events and stay in touch with people I may not communicate with regularly otherwise
Right now I’m not sure… I’m not in charge of anything other than my 4 small children at the moment… My oldest just started 1st grade though and I do like to plan so I’m sure this would come in handy sooner rather than later! Time to bookmark it for reference!
I can use all the help i can get when it comes to getting organized
SignUp Genius would be helpful with our sports team moms/grandmas and with our art group!
It would help both my daughter’s keep up with their various volunteer duties along with their school classes
I chair our school bookfairs twice a year and Signup Genius would be a great organizing tool for me!
This would help me remember the varying dates with everyone in the family….in fact I have used this Signup Genius this summer! It was a fabulous way to keep track of our kids summer day camp activities so I could remember who needed to be where when! 🙂 And it’s easy to use and change info when needed.
I help with my son’s soccer team, and it would help to keep things organized!
arranging and organizing activities.
I have used it in the past, when moms send it to me for volunteering and such. I loved it and had planned to also use it for meals support within our church community when a family has a need. But I gave up that leadership role recently. I do like how quick and easy it is!
it would help me organize my students’ parents names and email addresses during back to school night.
This sounds like a great way to organize all of our volunteer and fundraiser commitments. Thanks for the info.
I sure could use it to keep organized
Would be perfect for my first ever year on the parent teacher student council t my daughters school!
It would help me keep up with the kids’ activities and appointments
it would help to organize our buys schedules
it would help me organize play dates
it would eliminate some of the paper lying around
This would help me coordinate school and sport activities and also with PTA Meetings
Keep my reading lists organized, so no books are forgotten about.
It sounds like a great way to organize things
My kids are very involved in band and sports. We have tons of band things to sign up for throughout the year & since I’m on the band boosters, this would be tremendously helpful!
Would help organize my sons soccer team
I’m a room mother this year, so that always requires lots of organization. The kindle fire would sure help with that!
To keep the kids’s extra-curricular activities organized, to help w/our new school and their much needed signups, and even w/Boy Scouts.
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It would help me keep ALL our schedules straight!
This would be great to connect all of the parents in the class.
It would be very helpful with the busy school schedule, and keeping all of the activities straight can be difficult.
It’s nice that it helps organize volunteers for events
This would be great helping organize our busy school life PTA , Sorts, Dance ,and school work
I would help my keep my library volunteer schedule correct for my daughter’s school.
SO helpfull keeping track of due assignments since this is my first year with all 3 kids in school full time!
As a volunteer coordinator, I could manage my volunteers and assign them to needed tasks!
because if I use post it notes they get lost. I could use this for reminders because I forget everything.
It Would Help Me Organize School Activities.
We were just talking about SignUp Genius at a club meeting. We love being able to send a link in e-mail to all our members and not have to spend hours on the phone asking for volunteers.
All those classroom parties!
it would help us organize who is doing what, and i could use it for work functions as well!
I think this would be a great way to remember all of my events, because sometimes they get overlooked.
This would help me to coordinate all the kids after school activities!
With all the meetings and sports events – this would be awesome
SignUp Genius would send reminders which are very helpful when back to school begins because things get busy!
It would help me to stay more organized with things.
I think it could help my grandson who is learning disabled
It Could Help Organize After School Activities
I am an organizer. I need to have everything in my calendar and a major to do list. I would love to win this prize.
I already used this last year for school events, it is real great help! I like it because I can sign-in from my home at any time and change any information.
It will help me get volunteers for the next fun raiser.
Great way to help me keep all the activities organized
I would use it to help my son with his homework!
This would help coordinate school activities for sure.
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This would help with school functions
I love Sign Up Genius! I use it for my bunko group, for work lunches, and we love to use it for PTA volunteer sign ups–especially book fairs!
I’m a teacher, and this website would be great for organizing parent volunteers in the classroom!
church activities could benefit from this!
I’d love to win!! I have two special needs kids that would use this for communication. This would be such a blessing!!
I have four kids in school. Any help would be appreciated!
It will help me to remember all school events
I could use it for Girl Scout activities.
The assignments is huge for me
This is my first year homeschooling. It could help with a calendar and activities for her.
It would help me keep up with my kids’ activities.
It would help me keep up with the kids’ activities.
I’ve thought of becoming a 4-H leader or Girl Scout leader and I’m sure we’d be doing volunteer activities that I’d need help with! 🙂
Sign up genius would help with anything that needs volunteers. PTA, and church functions are the things that come to mind first.
I love sign up genius it makes things so much easier.
Any thing to help with organizing volunteers would be great!
Sounds like a great program for getting volunteers! This seems like it would be so easy to use.
I stay pretty active with my kids in school, with mops, with church and scouts
I stay pretty active in/at my son’s school….PTO/Volunteer and different events.
I’m a kindergarten teacher and started using SignUp Genius last year for conferences, donation lists, special day sign ups, and volunteers. Makes my job so much easier!
Sign Up Genius is invaluable to me as the volunteer coordinator for my children’s school’s Band Booster Club. We do a lot of fundraising and Sign Up Genius keeps me and my band parents organized.
Signupgenius has been a lifesaver!
This would definitely help the teen organize classes, extra-curricular activities and work!
SignUp Genius could be helpful for organizing PTA events
games to keep kids busy
I’ve used Signup genius for all my Girl Scout sign ups – it’s perfect for what I need since we can all see the schedule and it reminds everyone – makes my leader job so much easier!
It would help me coordinate assistance for a race my daughter’s school does
This will help me coordinate school activities.
Great way to coordinate parents to volunteer at athlete events signups
This would definitely help me coordinate activities with different groups.
Would be very helpful for getting all the pta meetings, assignments and activites organized and on track
It would be great for multiple activities and assignments at school!
Very helpful for assignments.
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It could help organize all the sports-related activities.
this would be great to coordinate pta activities. this would be great to coordinate donate blood charity drives at work.
I’m currently try to start a charter school in STL, MO. This would be a great way to get out committee meeting notices!
Sign Up Genius sounds like a great tool for all volunteers! I’ll have to use it for my next big volunteer event! Thanks for sharing about this program.