For your PTO board
Roost runs the parts of your PTO that used to run you.
The directory, your email, your sponsors, your volunteer groups, in one place your board controls. Less to maintain, and it can pay for itself.
Built by an incoming PTO president who got tired of the existing tools. One board member to another.
Your board already does enough.
Every September you rebuild the roster by hand, chase families to opt back in, run announcements out of a separate mailing tool, and scramble to fill volunteer spots and next year's board. The directory was supposed to help, and instead it's one more thing to maintain. Roost takes that work off your plate.
What it looks like for your board.
Treasurer
It can pay for itself.
Sell a handful of local-business sponsor cards and you can cover your entire Roost subscription. Your PTO keeps 100% — Roost takes no cut and never touches the payment. See pricing.
President
Less to run, year after year.
The directory you spent a year filling is still there in September. Roost promotes every grade and graduates the top class in one reviewed, undoable pass — no rebuild, no re-import, no mass re-opt-in. And your board lives in Roost: model your roles, mark a position open, and parents can raise their hand, so next year's board isn't a spring scramble. That's live today — see the demo.
Communications chair
All your PTO email, in one place.
Send to the whole school, a single grade, a class, or a club, from inside the directory, with everyone BCC'd and no exposed addresses. Schedule ahead, route replies wherever you want, and let a room parent send under their own name. It replaces the separate mailing tool you're paying for and copy-pasting into now.
Membership & directory chair
The roster fills itself.
We import your current directory once — you don't lift a finger. After that, families claim their own info with a magic link in under a minute and pick what to share. That's how over 40% of Forest Hills families have joined, with zero opt-outs. And it finally fits every kind of family: stepparents, two moms, shared custody, different last names.
Volunteer coordinator
Recruiting that isn't a cold email.
“Send out sign-ups, ask for volunteers, coordinate room parents. Basically, help parents connect with their committees and events of interest and to one another.”
Set up your committees the way your school actually runs them — Field Day, the Book Fair, the fall fundraiser — each with the named roles you need filled. Roost lines up the parents most likely to say yes: families who opted in to be matched, shown right next to your open roles. Message them in one tap, and Roost emails them on your behalf — you never see their contact info, and neither does anyone else. For the day-of, split any job into time-slots parents claim themselves: the sign-up sheet, minus the spreadsheet and the group text. It's live today, and the demo shows a real board set up this way.
When we asked our own families what kept them from pitching in, the answer wasn't willingness — it was scheduling. Most of the parents who responded said they'd do more if it fit their week.
You don't lift a finger to start.
Send us your DirectorySpot export, your spreadsheet, or your paper list. We clean it up, match families, and load it. Your board reviews, fixes anything, and invites members. Most schools start with the board, then bring on the full roster a week later.
Your data — and your liability — handled.
The board carries responsibility for families' data. Roost lets no one bulk-export the directory — not boards, not admins, not us — so contact info never ends up loose on someone's laptop. Privacy is enforced at the database level, and families control what they share. Privacy policy · FERPA & state law.
Built by a PTO president, running in a real school.
Roost is built by a PTO president who got tired of the existing tools. It's live at Forest Hills Elementary: over 40% of families have joined, with zero opt-outs.
See it the way your board would.
Drop into the demo as a board member — a real board with named roles and a club that's recruiting — and run it yourself. No signup, no salesperson. Or grab 15 minutes whenever you're ready.
Or email jeremy@roost.directory.