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EventsEvent day: roles, check-in, walk-ins and the paper backupSix people at seven for tents, four on drinks at eleven, three at five for teardown. Here is how to split an event into roles, check people in by role, and still have paper when the signal drops.
Small nonprofitsThe phone number on your page rings somebody's kitchenSmall groups run on personal numbers and home addresses. Every contact field has its own show box, the private organization email is never published, and hiding them all still leaves a way in.
Volunteer managementGroup inquiries: one planning note instead of four phone callsEleven kids, four parents, a Saturday in October, and a question about the under-twelves. Here is where group requests land, and how to work one from New to Scheduled.
Small nonprofitsEleven replies in nine days, and nobody remembers who was calledSign-ups arrive through accounts, forms and word of mouth. Here is the one table that holds them, with a status per person, a private note, and a date that brings them back to you.
Small nonprofitsThe quality panel that reads your listing like a stranger wouldYou know where to park and what to wear, so you stop writing it down. A panel above every listing form counts what is missing, scores it, and tells you why each gap costs you people.
Small nonprofitsStop sharing one login: team roles for your organization pageThe person who set up your page has the password, and everyone else borrows it. Invite each helper by email instead, pick the role that matches the job, and take access back when they move on.
Getting it postedStop retyping the same listingThe coat drive gets written once and typed four times. Three tools take that work back: build the listing from the flyer you already made, forward the email you already sent, and let the promotion page write the posts.
Getting set upYour organization is already listed. Here is how to take the page overAn old phone number, a description nobody there wrote, and no way in. Claiming asks for your name, your email and a sentence about who you are, then a person reads it.
Small nonprofitsPut this week's real ask at the top of your organization pageThree people to unload a truck Saturday is too small for a posting and too useful to leave unsaid. Here is the one-line spot for it, and how it takes itself back down.