The people closest to the work learn the most.
A fundraising chair learns what moved families to give.
An event chair learns what made the day run smoothly.
A volunteer coordinator learns who keeps showing up.
The best parent groups do not restart every fall. They build momentum. The best parent groups do not restart every fall. They build momentum.
Big Nest connects the work of your PTO or PTG, so each board starts further ahead than the last.
Big Nest connects the work of your PTO or PTG,
so each board starts further ahead than the last.
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Hutton PTG
Hamblen PTG
Lewis & Clark Tigers
Peperzak PTG
Roosevelt PTG
Adams PTG
Moran Prairie PTG
Sacajawea PTG
Mullan Road PTG
East Troy PTO
Bemiss PTO
Ferris SAN
Hutton PTG
Hamblen PTG
Lewis & Clark Tigers
Peperzak PTG
Roosevelt PTG
Adams PTG
Moran Prairie PTG
Sacajawea PTG
Mullan Road PTG
East Troy PTO
Bemiss PTO
Ferris SAN
How momentum builds
Every family is part of a bigger story.
The family that buys spirit wear in the fall will be donating to your spring fun-run.
The mom who volunteered at your ice cream social runs the local business that will become your first $1,000 sponsor.
The dad who signs his daughter up for chess club this winter will lead that club next year.
Big Nest helps you recognize those relationships and build on them year after year.
The work is connected. The tools are not.
As a PTO or PTG adds chairs and committees, the work spreads across more people. So does the knowledge that makes it stronger.
The board cannot build on what it never sees.
When that learning stays in separate tools, inboxes, and personal memory...
it remains with one person instead of strengthening the whole organization.
Each new chair starts with less than the last one knew.
Files can be handed over. The reasoning and relationships behind them are harder to pass along.
Big Nest keeps the learning connected to the work, so a stronger organization can grow beyond the people currently holding each role.
Explore how Big Nest worksOne place for families. One history for leaders.
Families see how to participate. Leaders see what happened and what the organization can build on.
The home families use
Families can find the group’s news, fundraisers, and upcoming events.
The history leaders inherit
Leaders see the work behind each activity and use it next time.
What momentum makes possible.
Parent groups use Big Nest to repeat what works and improve what does not so they can take on bigger goals.
The drums arrived before spring.
Sacajawea PTG had been supporting its middle school for decades. When the band teacher asked for help replacing aging drumline equipment, the PTG gave the community a clear way to help.
$7K
Raised toward the drumline project
6 Months
Instead of the district’s three-year timeline
The fundraiser got the principal’s attention, helped unlock matching funds, and lowered the project cost enough for the district to move forward. Students played their new drums in the spring parade that year.
Read Sacajawea’s storyBack-to-back $50K years became the norm.
Hutton once followed a $50,000 fundraising year with a $42,000 year. It was boom or bust. After the PTG began building on prior campaigns, back-to-back $50,000 years became the norm.
$50K+
Back-to-back fundraising years
For this board and the next one
The next board should inherit more than files.
Files preserve documents. They do not explain which fundraiser worked, which sponsor relationship was growing, or what next year’s chair should change.
Big Nest keeps the story of the work with the work itself, so the next board can understand it.
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