PTOs, PTAs, Parents Clubs, Home & School Associations — whatever your school calls it, the volunteer board running it has been told to "just use a Facebook group" or "just use the school's email" for far too long. Lumicura is the first app designed around the way parent organizations actually operate.
You're a volunteer. You have a day job. The last treasurer left you a 14-tab spreadsheet you can barely read. Lumicura is the first system built for the fact that everyone on your board is doing this in the margins of real life — and your team turns over every year.
You don't need another system to manage. You want fewer systems, less liability, and a parent organization you don't have to babysit. Lumicura is built so the parents — not your IT team — can run it day to day.
Most parent organizations have a patchwork going — a group chat, an email list, a sign-up site, a spreadsheet, and a folder of paper forms. Here's what Lumicura replaces, and how the new setup is simpler.
Three composite stories pulled from our conversations with PTO presidents, treasurers, and chairs. We'll publish full case studies as our founding schools finish their first year.
A 240-family parish school where the bookkeeper loses three weeks every June stitching together fundraising credits, volunteer hours, and tuition shortfalls into one statement. Lumicura keeps that running tally year-round — so June is just a printout.
A 540-family independent school where every July the new parents' association president inherits a Google Drive folder, three GroupMe chats, and a lot of question marks. With Lumicura, the handoff is one click — and the new president walks into a working app, with all the history intact.
A 380-family public elementary PTO whose volunteer hours feed a state grant report. Lumicura's clean, time-stamped record replaces three people cross-checking three different spreadsheets.
No drawn-out rollout. We've designed onboarding to fit between two PTO meetings.
30 minutes. We set up your school's app, apply your colors, and give you your web address. You leave the call with a working link.
Send your family list (a CSV or an export from FACTS, TADS, etc.) and a quick rundown of your volunteer-hour rules. We set up the categories, deadlines, and board roles for you.
90-minute session for the board and committee chairs. Hands-on with announcements, volunteer sign-ups, and the hours dashboard.
We send a welcome email with your school's branding and a short guide to installing the app. Phone alerts work day one. We've already written the help articles for the first 100 questions.
