Why Accurate Tracking Matters in Florida
With scholarship money on the line, Florida students need reliable, verified documentation of their service hours. Whether students are logging volunteer hours or qualifying paid work hours, Helper Helper's tamper-proof validation and official transcripts give students and schools confidence that every hour is accurately recorded.
No other platform offers as many ways to validate service: QR codes, validation keys, supervisor signatures, and third-party coordinator confirmations. Every hour stands up to scrutiny when scholarship eligibility is on the line.
Signature Verification
Coordinators can approve volunteer hours with an on-screen signature that's fast, professional, and built right into the app. No paper forms, no scanning, no hassle.
District-Wide Success St. Lucie Public Schools
St. Lucie Public Schools · Public K-12 District
“Helper Helper is the ultimate app for tracking and validating volunteer hours for each student, even in large high schools. Guidance counselors love the app because there is no more paperwork—just click. Parents will love the app because their child doesn’t need to turn in anything. Students love the app because they can easily watch their volunteer hours immediately increase as they complete opportunities. Helper Helper is everything your school needs to communicate and document volunteer hours for all your students.”
One of Helper Helper's flagship Florida partnerships is with St. Lucie Public Schools, the Treasure Coast district serving Fort Pierce and Port St. Lucie. With over 14,000 students across 9 high schools, and a state framework where 75 hours of qualifying community service or paid work unlocks Bright Futures Scholarship eligibility, St. Lucie needed a platform that could handle volunteer tracking at true district scale.
Students sign in to Helper Helper via Single Sign-On using their Skyward credentials, and as Port St. Lucie High School's guidance puts it: "Paper forms or letters are no longer accepted; all hours must be submitted via Helper Helper." Any hours earned in earlier grades can be added retroactively, so no student loses credit during the transition.
The result is a single, verifiable record of every hour a student earns from 9th grade through graduation. Counselors stop chasing paper and missing signatures, while students see progress in real time on iOS and Android. And when scholarship season arrives, the records are already in the format Bright Futures eligibility requires.
Getting Started
Helper Helper integrates directly with the student information systems (SIS) and single sign-on (SSO) providers your school already uses, including Google for Education, Microsoft, PowerSchool, ClassLink, Canvas, and more. Students sign in with their existing school credentials and rosters sync automatically.
Already tracking hours in spreadsheets, a homegrown database, or another platform? We'll import your existing data into Helper Helper at no additional charge so students don't lose credit for hours they've already completed.
Same-Day Support from Real People
No chatbots or ticket queues. When you need help, you’ll hear back the same day from Krista, Chelsea, or Matt. Our team knows schools and provides guided onboarding and Zoom trainings to get your program up and running.
Simple, Affordable Pricing
Helper Helper starts at $500 per year for up to 200 students and includes everything you need. Additional students cost $2.50 per student per year.
- Hour verification & reporting
- Goal tracking & real-time progress
- Service portfolios for students
- iOS, Android & web apps
Schedule a Demo
Pick a time that works for you. We’ll walk through how Helper Helper can serve your school or district and answer any questions you may have.
HECVAT-assessed, FERPA-compliant, encrypted in-transit and at-rest, hosted on AWS infrastructure.
This designation benefits both parties: for your school or district, it means you can deploy Helper Helper without the administrative burden of collecting individual parent consent for every student — the same way you onboard other essential technology platforms. For Helper Helper, it means we are held to the same strict data-handling standards as your own employees, giving your community confidence that student records are protected by the full weight of federal privacy law.
The FTC provides guidance confirming that schools may consent on behalf of parents in the educational context under COPPA. Please request to see our Notice of Data Practices for Children Under 13 and our Privacy Policy for further details.
The HECVAT was developed by the higher education community (EDUCAUSE) and is widely used by colleges and universities to assess the IT security, data protection, and privacy practices of third-party software vendors before adoption. While originally designed for higher ed, its comprehensive framework is equally valuable for K–12 schools and districts looking for a rigorous, standardized way to evaluate whether a vendor meets their security and compliance requirements.
AWS operates the most widely adopted and trusted cloud infrastructure in the world, with security practices that meet or exceed the requirements of federal agencies, financial institutions, and healthcare providers. Their data centers are protected by 24/7 on-site security, biometric access controls, redundant power and networking, and continuous monitoring.
AWS is independently audited against the most rigorous standards in the industry — including SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, and PCI DSS — and provides industry-leading uptime guarantees backed by a 99.99% service-level agreement. This means your school can count on Helper Helper being available when students and advisors need it.
Administrators can be scoped to specific groups, schools, grade levels, or graduating classes — an NHS advisor sees only their NHS members, a school principal sees only their school, and a district coordinator sees the full district.
Outside community partners receive organization admin roles that let them post their own volunteer opportunities, manage sign-ups, and confirm attendance for events they host, without any visibility into student records, other organizations’ events, or school-internal data.
Helper Helper is fully FERPA-compliant, giving your community confidence that student records are protected by the full weight of federal privacy law. We never sell or share student data.
For Florida schools, we sign your district's Student Data Privacy Agreement and comply with Florida's Student Online Personal Information Protection Act (SOPIPA, F.S. 1006.1494).
Florida Schools Using Helper Helper
Miami Palmetto Senior High · Key Club Chapter
“Since the onset of Helper Helper, we have drastically cut time and now everything is in one platform easy to access by all members and up to the minute with accuracy.”
Manatee School for the Arts · Student Ambassadors
“The biggest benefit of using Helper Helper is the amount of time that has been saved for the students and myself. Helper Helper has simplified all aspects of volunteering from signing up for events to submitting hours for their Bright Futures scholarship.”
Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Requirements
The Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program, governed by Florida Statutes §1009.534, is one of the most well-known merit-based scholarship programs in the country. It requires 75 documented volunteer service hours as a condition for scholarship eligibility.
Under a 2022 law (HB 461), students may also substitute paid work hours to meet the service requirement. Helper Helper makes it easy to track both volunteer and paid work hours using custom categories, so schools have everything organized in one place.
How Helper Helper Supports Bright Futures Tracking
