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 don't restart every fall. They build momentum. The best parent groups don't 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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Trusted by PTOs and PTGs
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. Knowledge becomes fragemented.
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
See fundraiser results and use them to plan the next campaign.
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.
A three-year wait became six months.
Sacajawea’s band needed $22,000 for new drums. The district was expected to take three years to fund them. The PTG launched a dedicated fundraiser through Big Nest to rally community support.
$7K
Raised by the community
6 months
From a three-year wait to new drums
The community’s response caught the principal’s attention. She offered to match the $7,000, leaving the district with $8,000 to fund. With the PTG’s help, students had their drums in six months and played them in that spring’s parade.
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.
A folder can hold last year’s flyers and reports. The next board still needs to know what worked and what to change.
Big Nest keeps the plans, decisions, and lessons with each fundraiser or event, so the next chair has more than a folder to start from.
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Give your board a connected home for this year’s work and something stronger to carry into the next.
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