About SchoolPTA
The operations platform for PTAs and PTOs.
SchoolPTA runs the work behind a PTA — events, volunteers, people and roles — so the board can spend its time on the community. It started at a PTA meeting, with the volunteers running Wellington Elementary PTA in Woodinville, Washington.
What SchoolPTA is
Operations first. A website when you want one.
Every plan includes every operations module below. A public website, Mailchimp and Givebacks are Pro-tier features, and a new school's website starts switched off.
Operations dashboard
Available nowOne screen for what needs the board's attention this week.
People and roles
Available nowYour roster, invitations by email and role-based access for the board.
Events
Available nowPlan every event, cancel or reschedule it, and keep families informed.
Volunteers
Available nowSee who is helping where, with a live roster for every coordinator.
Volunteer sign-ups
Available nowFamilies claim a slot in one tap and get a confirmation.
Calendar
Available nowOne school calendar families can subscribe to on their phone.
Rooms and resources
Available nowMembers and faculty request the library, gym or a projector, an admin approves, and double-booking is blocked.
Forms and e-signature
Coming soonPermission slips and agreements, signed in the browser.
Requests and approvals
Coming soonRoute a request to the right approver and keep the decision on record.
Faculty
Coming soonTeachers and staff sign in with their school email.
Finance
Coming soonIncome, expenses, receipts and reimbursements in one ledger.
Budget planning
Coming soonBuild next year's budget and check each line against your mission.
Board governance
Coming soonMeetings, agendas, motions and actions for the board.
Member directory
Coming soonAn opt-in directory only signed-in members can see.
Inventory
Coming soonLabel what the PTA owns, and check it out and back in.
The picture they painted was familiar to anyone who's ever served on a school board. A website that hadn't kept pace with how families live. No way to sync events to a phone calendar. Volunteer sign-ups happening on a separate platform that asked parents to create yet another account. A board spending hours every week on coordination work that pulled them away from the reason they showed up in the first place.
Kids first. That's the PTA's core mission. The tools weren't built for it.
James Whelan — founder of ChAImp and a new Wellington PTA member — left that first meeting and started building. Not because it was a good business idea. Because it was an obvious problem with an obvious solution, and someone needed to do it.
A few days later, Wellington had a new website. A few weeks after that, the scope had grown: if this problem exists at Wellington, it exists at every school in America. SchoolPTA was born.
The mission behind the product
More Mission. Less Admin.
ChAImp exists to bring enterprise-grade technology to community-level nonprofits — organizations doing meaningful work, often without the resources their mission deserves. For many of the organizations ChAImp works with, the engagement is entirely pro bono.
We believe AI should amplify human connection — never replace it.
The SchoolPTA chat assistant doesn't replace the PTA president. The AI newsletter drafter doesn't replace the board's voice. They handle the coordination work so the humans can focus on the community.
That's not a feature. That's a philosophy.
The founder
James Whelan
Founder & Executive Director, ChAImp
James spent 25 years at Microsoft — across Engineering, Product, and Support — solving complex problems for enterprise organizations. He founded ChAImp to apply that same rigour to the organizations that need it most: community-level nonprofits doing important work on lean budgets.
SchoolPTA is a ChAImp product — built first for Wellington Elementary PTA, then expanded so every school community could benefit. What started as a response to one board's frustration became a platform for every PTA and PTO that deserves better tools.
Where it started
Wellington Elementary PTA
Wellington is where SchoolPTA was born and where it lives today. Every feature on this platform was shaped by real conversations with Wellington's board members and tested with Wellington's families.
Wellington Elementary PTA
Woodinville, WA · Northshore School District
Wellington PTA approached us with an outdated OurSchoolPages site. Their parents now sync events directly to their calendars and volunteer sign-ups fill without anyone chasing a soul.
Ready to focus on what matters?
SchoolPTA exists so your board can spend less time on coordination and more time on the community. That's the whole idea.