 Thanks for joining us for today's Public Good App House demo event. I'm Bailey Maples and I'm a senior program manager with the Strategic Partnerships Team here at TechSoup. Joining me today, we have Kelly Johnson, Support Analysts and Enterprise Sales Development at Signup Genius. Kelly has worked at Signup Genius since 2015 as part of the customer support and enterprise sales teams. She helps business and nonprofit groups of all sizes find the best solution to save time and money. Signup Genius makes it easy to coordinate events and volunteers in minutes with online signups. The tool replaces the need for reply all emails and spreadsheets, helping groups simplify organizing and communication. Hello everybody, my name is Kelly Johnson, and I am with signupgenius.com, and I'm coming to you from Charlotte, North Carolina today. Signup Genius has a strong company culture where we value simplicity, doing excellent work, embracing change, and enjoying what we do. One of my favorite parts of being part of the Signup Genius team is helping everyday people do great things and have an impact on their community. How did Signup Genius get started? In 2008, Signup Genius founder, Dan Rutledge was hosting a gathering for a church group, and he asked individuals with the last name A through M to bring snacks, and N through Z to bring drinks, and all the snack people brought chips and salsa, and all the drink people brought Diet Coke, and Dan knew there had to be a better way. He began creating and coding Signup Genius, and using it for his church group and his kids sports team. Before you knew it, word began to spread, and Signup Genius was born. If you look at the image on the right of this slide, you'll see what a Signup could look like if you're hosting a small event where you're collecting hosts, and people can put in if they're going to bring a snack, and actually what they're going to bring so that you don't have the chips and salsa Diet Coke fiasco that Dan did. All right, so I'm going to take you through the steps of how simple it is to create a Signup. As I mentioned earlier, we really value simplicity. We like to keep things simple so that just as James mentioned, you have time to be out there in the field doing the work you want to do, not managing your volunteers. So when you create a Signup, there's just three simple steps. You have this design tab where you can enter additional information about your event. You can hyperlink other websites and resources that your volunteers may need to view. You can also attach documents and files, and you can also customize who the contact person is going to be. So if you have a lot of volunteers in some managed specific areas, you can make sure the contact person for your Signup is the correct person. So that's the first step. The second step is the most important, in my opinion, and that is where you put the meat of the Signup, and that includes the dates and the times that you need volunteers. You can also list the specific job that you want them to do. Sometimes you're not collecting items. You are organizing people. So our slot area allows you to give additional information about the type of volunteer you need. Does this volunteer need to be able to drive or lift something that's 50 pounds or heavier, or are you simply gathering donations? You can list all of that in your slots. So our system has built-in wizard, we call it. That'll help you create those dates and those times quickly. That saves you some time as well. The third step, this is our settings tab, and it allows you to request the contact information of your volunteers. You can ask additional custom questions. So if you would like to gather a t-shirt size for your volunteers or you need to know if they are comfortable standing for a long period of time, you can ask all of those questions and gather that information from your participants. This settings tab also includes a host of other features including one of our most popular features, which is the automatic reminder where our system will automatically email your volunteers to let them know and remind them that they are signed up to volunteer or to bring in something. There's also restrictions you can add. If you have an ongoing sign-up need, then you can hide dates that are in the past or hide dates that are in the future, just so you're not in there having to manage this event day to day. Our system will automatically do that for you so that when volunteers come to the page, they see what's current. Once you have completed those three steps, there on the left you'll see an example of this completed food bank volunteer sign-up and as your participants sign up, you can easily create a report and export that report for your records. And this is where you're gonna have the contact information for your volunteers, the responses to those custom questions, the email addresses. So if you want to create a group and contact them again for your next event, you have all of that there for you. The beauty of sign-up genius is the sign-up is gonna update in real time. So anyone who comes to the sign-up can see where the needs are and what works for them. Sign-up genius can be used to manage events and volunteer needs large and small. So whether you have an ongoing event or a one-time need, we ask that you resist the urge to pick up the phone or send that reply, I'll email and just go to signupgenius.com. You can create a free account. We also offer a 14-day free trial if you're interested in advanced features. You can sign up for a consulting call. Be happy to help you know which subscription and which features will match your organization best.