Free online resource for volunteers and a chance to win!

Carolina Pad and VolunteerSpot.com have teamed together to make National Volunteer Week special for those people who do the dirty work and don’t get the recognition they deserve. You know the person who always cleans up after church? The one who tirelessly heads all of the committees and plans all of the events at school? It's not their job. They don't get paid for it and many times they don't even get thanked for it.

VolunteerSpot is a FREE online resource for volunteers to organize events, a soccer season, church fundraiser and many, many more other volunteer events. VolunteerSpot's FREE online signup sheets make it easy for anyone to schedule and coordinate parent volunteers -- say goodbye to reply all email and clipboard sign up sheets this spring!

When my kids were younger, I was one of those volunteers. I spent hours as president of our PTO organizing fundraisers.  I was secretary for our Band Booster club.  I spent endless time organizing activities as a Den leader.  I know how hectic it can be to try to organize all of these things and not loose your sanity.

Right now, my sister is experiencing this in her life as she organizes Earth Day events, Science Fair night, helps as a room parent and organizes countless other events simply because someone needs to do it so the kids have chances to enjoy these events.  For someone who has never volunteered behind the scenes at one of these events, you really have no idea how much work is involved.   Many times, no one even remembers to thank you.

So if you have a volunteer in your life, that you'd like to thank, enter the contest sponsored by Carolina Pad and Volunteer Spot by clicking on the picture in my post.  In this contest you can enter to win a Carolina Pad gift certificate for yourself and your volunteer and up to 20 notebooks for their organization.  They are asking contest participants to tell us why your special volunteer is the best and deserves to win! The contest will be open from March 21-April 1.  They will announce one winner a day the week of April 11-15.


I will receive a thank you gift for sharing this contest with you.