I finally figured out why my volunteer sign-up sheets were a total mess

I've been coordinating the food pantry at our church in Portland for about 8 months now. Every Saturday we'd have like 12 people show up for the first shift and then 3 people for the second shift, and I could never get the numbers right. Last week a lady named Carol who's been doing this for 20 years just asked me flat out "why are you using three different sign-up links?" And it hit me - I had been making separate Google Forms for each time slot instead of using one form with time slot options. People were just clicking the first link they saw and ignoring the rest. Now I have one form and the coverage is way more balanced. Has anyone else dealt with a system that was obviously broken but you just couldn't see it until someone pointed it out?

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emerycarr1mo ago

I did the same thing with our neighborhood cleanup sign-ups!