8 Great Ways to Use SignUp to Do Good in 2025

Support the Causes You Care About

SignUp makes it easy to get involved, bring people together, and get help achieving your important goals in your community and beyond! Plan a charity race, host a drive (diapers, food, recycling, whatever your cause) at work or church, recruit volunteers for the local shelter, organize a tree-planting event, or stand up for the causes you care about through activism.

Rally Your Neighbors

Create a united front with your neighbors — use SignUp to organize a neighborhood cleanup, launch a community mutual aid group, manage shifts for a community garden, coordinate meal circles for elderly and others needing support, or enlist volunteer tutors and manage tutoring appointments. And don't forget to plan some neighborhood fun, too — organize your next block party, a monthly book swap for your book club or the neighborhood kids, or a weekly activity like pickleball!

Empower Your School Parent Community

SignUp supports YOU supporting teachers and other school staff for the benefit of our children! Use online SignUps to easily recruit volunteer helpers for anything and everything — Back-to-School initiatives, class parties, field trips, library helpers, school fundraising events, prom, Project Graduation, Teacher Appreciation Week and more. We’ll even turn out more parents for Parent Teacher Conferences to help foster positive communication and commitment to learning.

Foster a Culture of Gratitude at Work

Helping your work team feel recognized and valued is key to building and maintaining a happy, healthy, and productive group. Be a do-gooder in your workplace by sharing tokens of gratitude throughout the year that inspire and help sustain a motivated team — here are some classic, quirky, and unique employee appreciation ideas to get you started!

Supercharge Your Club or Team’s Community Engagement

Whether you or someone in your family is a member of a school club or service organization, sports team, Scout troop, religious group, artist guild, or any other group of like-minded individuals — use SignUp to organize your group’s fundraising events, volunteer service projects, and other activities that give back to your community!

Spread Kindness Through Micro-Volunteering

Not every good deed has to be a huge project. Create SignUps for “bite-sized” acts of kindness — like writing thank-you notes to veterans, making birthday cards for nursing home residents, baking treats for first responders, or donating gently used books to a local library. Easy to organize, easy to join!

Celebrate Cultural Connection

Bring people together across cultures by hosting potlucks, cultural fairs, holiday traditions, or storytelling nights. SignUp makes it easy to assign food, activities, performances, and setup/cleanup help — creating joyful opportunities for neighbors to learn from each other.

Collect Money & Spread the Cheer

Use SignUp to support your fundraisers, collect teacher gift or coach gift contributions, raise money for your favorite local nonprofit, host holiday giving trees and more — then use those funds to spread a little cheer at school or in your community!

Whether you’re dreaming of something big or starting small, SignUp is your go-to tool for getting others involved and making it happen. Let’s inspire more smiles, lend more hands, and make this a year of meaningful action together! What will you organize first?

FAQs: Using SignUp to Do Good

Q: What kinds of “do good” projects can I organize with SignUp?
A: Just about anything! From volunteer events and donation drives to school activities, fundraisers, mutual aid efforts, and acts of kindness — SignUp helps you coordinate it all in one place.

Q: Is SignUp only for volunteering?
A: Not at all. SignUp is perfect for organizing helpers, assigning items, collecting contributions, scheduling shifts, and managing events that bring people together for Good.

Q: Can I use SignUp for school and PTA activities?
A: Yes! Teachers, PTAs, PTOs, and parent groups love using SignUp to recruit volunteers, plan events, support teachers, and keep families engaged all year long.

Q: How does SignUp help with neighborhood or community projects?
A: SignUp makes it easy to rally neighbors, manage schedules, and coordinate shared efforts like cleanups, meal circles, tutoring, block parties, and community gardens.

Q: Can I organize small acts of kindness or micro-volunteering?
A: Absolutely. SignUp is great for bite-sized good deeds like card-making, treat drop-offs, donation collections, and other simple ways to spread kindness.

Q: Is SignUp useful for workplaces and employee appreciation?
A: Yes! Teams use SignUp to plan appreciation initiatives, coordinate recognition efforts, organize service projects, and build a culture of gratitude at work.

Q: Can SignUp help with fundraising or collecting money?
A: SignUp supports fundraising efforts by helping you organize events, collect contributions, manage giving trees, and rally supporters for causes you care about.

Q: Do participants need an account to sign up?
A: Nope! Participants can sign up easily without creating an account — making it simple for everyone to jump in and help. 💛

About the Author

   

Tara McAdams

Digital Marketing Manager, Content Strategist & Creator

Tara leads content strategy at SignUp and creates a variety of resources on a wide range of topics – including lifestyle trends, parent tips, prep for holidays, volunteer management, and event planning. More about Tara →