Everything Your Key Club Needs
Featured Chapter Miami Palmetto Senior High School, Florida
Miami Palmetto Senior High School · Key Club Chapter, Pinecrest, Florida
“All members have access to their service opportunity hours at all times. No more waiting for updates. Everything is at their fingertips. Members are able to schedule themselves in advance without missing out.”
“Stop considering it and jump right in”
For years, Miami Palmetto's Key Club ran on Google Forms. Members submitted hours through a form, the advisor copied them into a spreadsheet, and an Excel leaderboard was updated by hand. Maria Sanin, the chapter's faculty advisor, called it "a tedious job that required endless hours of counting and working between two different platforms." Members found out where they stood at the monthly meeting.
Today the whole chapter lives in Helper Helper. Members check their hours whenever they like, sign up for projects weeks ahead, and see which friends are already going. Since the switch, meeting attendance has climbed to 95 percent, participation in service events has doubled, and the chapter's 150-plus members completed more than 11,000 hours of service in a single school year. "It is a great tool for accountability," Sanin says, "and promotes friendly competition among members." Her advice to other advisors: "Stop considering it and jump right in."
“Stop considering it and jump right in. Helper Helper is easy, manageable and the members love it. When I began with Key Club 8 years ago, our club would use Google Forms and an Excel leaderboard to track individual hours. This was a tedious job that required endless hours of counting and working between two different platforms. 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.”
“Helper Helper is the ultimate app for tracking and validating volunteer hours for each student, even in large high schools. Students love the app because they can easily watch their volunteer hours immediately increase as they complete opportunities.”
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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.
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.
“I was hesitant to pay for a service we were surviving without, but I do not regret it for a moment. The amount of time I have saved has more than paid for the service and then some!”
— Andie Cummings, Student Ambassador Advisor, Manatee School for the Arts
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.
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.
“The students and I have found Helper Helper a very accessible application to making good events happen. It’s intuitively easy to use, from all aspects, as a volunteer or administrator. It’s well designed and developed. Very comprehensive, demonstrating a thorough knowledge of the volunteering process. Students respond to friendly and easy to use phone apps much more than Excel worksheets or Google sheets.”
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Real-Time Reports & Actionable Insights
Goal Tracking & Real-Time Progress
Verified Service Transcripts for College Applications
Verify Self-Reported Hours with Community Partner Approval
Third-Party Coordinator Approval via Email or Text Message
For self-reported hours, members provide their coordinator’s contact details. The system sends a simple two-click approval message to coordinators, keeping the validation process fast and easy.
Once approved, this status will show in your admin panel where you can bulk-validate them all at once or review each one individually.
“The past commitments option is so easy for people in the community to use when our NHS members work with them!”
– Kate Dusto, NHS Advisor, Arapahoe High School
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