Small Sign Up is Ready!

My family has been involved with Make-A-Wish almost my whole life... When I was 7, I was diagnosed with cancer, and received my wish to go to Disney Land. Fast forward 25+ years: I am now a wish granting volunteer, and have been an active member of the Make-A-Wish Mid Atlantic community for the last 10 or so years.

For years, I've seen my local chapter of Make-A-Wish use a custom barebones sign up software to manage volunteers... Each week there are a few new Wish Kids that need to get matched to volunteers. Volunteers sign up. Easy! This small, simple, uncomplicated workflow within a custom sign up tool was FAR easier to manage, and easier for volunteers to use, than other signup options they've tried over the years. Everyone is happy!

Unfortunately, this custom software went end-of-life early 2024, and they were left with the usual selection of sign up platforms again, but no option that checked all the boxes for their small use case.

This core challenge led me to create Small Sign Up -- a new online sign up platform designed to deliver exactly the convenient, easy-to-use workflow I've seen that worked so well for Make-A-Wish... Specifically: a streamlined tool to manage several small events with a few volunteers on a regular basis. I found that if I leave out all the bells and whistles you might see for larger sign ups (long lists of volunteers, complex event configurations, collecting money, etc), then I can optimize the volunteer and editor experience around these "small" sign up events.. The end result is a clean & modern presentation that increases volunteer sign up rates and saves time & effort for maintainers. A win-win!

Today, I'm excited to present the first release of Small Sign Up! This v1 is designed around signing up new wish volunteers every week. I also believe there's plenty of potential for Small Sign Up to help other teams who need to manage similar workflows.

Please take a look and let me know what you think! I will add new features & improvements based on what you need, so reach out any time with thoughts, feedback, or questions. Hope you like it!