Post a session once. Get the right volunteers, vetted and background-checked, booked in minutes instead of days.
New York City
Your impact
Read to Succeed NYC
VerifiedAfterschool Reading Tutor
Tue, Nov 4 · 3:30 PM
5 spotsCity Harvest
Food Sorting, Brooklyn
One tap to book. No reply-all chains.
Sound familiar?
Manual outreach, reply-all chains, spreadsheets, no-shows. Every week.
Coordinator
to: Volunteer list (87 recipients)
Hi all,
We're still short a few volunteers for next week's afterschool sessions:
Reply with which session works and I'll confirm by end of day.
Outreach eats your week
Drafting emails, sending follow-ups, updating your spreadsheet, responding to replies. For every session.
No-shows happen
People say yes, then forget. There's no built-in confirmation, no automated reminder, no waitlist to fall back on.
Verification is its own project
Background checks, language requirements, and skill matching all happen by hand, after the fact. Slower for you, slower for the volunteer.
You recruit from your existing list
Email blasts go to the people who already know you. New volunteers in your area never find your sessions.
How it works
Here's exactly what your session looks like to a volunteer in the cūro app.
Title, date, time, spots, any skill or language requirements. Two minutes total.
New session
Title
When
Spots
Requirements
Pre-verified volunteers see your session and book directly. No replies, no back-and-forth.
Sun, Nov 2
Read to Succeed NYC
VerifiedAfterschool Reading Tutor
Tue, Nov 4 · 3:30 PM
4 spotsYou're booked
Calendar invite sent
Automatic reminders, calendar sync, and check-in. You see your full roster in real time.
Tuesday, Nov 4
Starts in 2 hours · 0.4 mi
Read to Succeed NYC
Afterschool Reading Tutor
Roster auto-syncs to your dashboard
Your view
Booked
4 / 4
Fully booked
Verified
4 / 4
Background checked
Waitlist
2
Auto-promote on
Replies needed
0
Booking is direct
Volunteers booked
Lydia C.
ConfirmedBrooklyn · she/her
Marcus T.
ConfirmedWilliamsburg · he/him
Priya S.
ConfirmedPark Slope · she/her
Jordan K.
ConfirmedCobble Hill · they/them
Waitlist
2 readyAnika R.
Joined 2 hrs ago
David C.
Joined yesterday
Auto-promotes the moment a confirmed volunteer cancels.
Recent activity
Jordan K. booked a spot
23 min ago
Anika R. joined waitlist
2 hrs ago
Reminder sent to all volunteers
Yesterday
Session published
3 days ago
Demo preview · actual dashboard launching with pilot partners
What makes cūro different
We're a booking tool for nonprofits, not a middleman trying to own your relationships.
Every volunteer who books with you becomes part of your contact list, not ours. Export anytime, use them for your own outreach, nothing locked in.
No subscription, no posting fees, no "premium tier" we'll spring on you later. We monetize through corporate partners who want to route their employees' volunteer hours to vetted orgs like yours.
Background checks, ID verification, skill confirmation. Done once by us, valid across sessions. You see who's cleared before they book. No more duplicate check fees.
Reach the Gen Z and Millennial volunteers who want the booking ease they get from ClassPass or OpenTable. They're ready to help. They just don't find you through email.
How we compare
Emails and spreadsheets
Cost
Hours of staff time per session
Idealist
(VolunteerMatch merged in Sept 2025)
Cost
Free for volunteer posts
cūro
Cost
Free for nonprofits. Forever.
Comparison reflects publicly available features as of October 2025. Enterprise platforms like Better Impact, VolunteerHub, and Galaxy Digital exist too, but typically cost $150 to $600+ per month and require multi-week setup.
cūro is launching with a small group of NYC nonprofits. Pilot partners get hands-on onboarding, direct input into the product roadmap, and free access to every feature we build. In exchange, we ask for your honest feedback and a 30-minute call every few weeks.
Free forever
Pilot pricing locked in for life.
White-glove setup
We post your first sessions for you.
Shape the product
Your feedback decides what we build.
Questions we hear a lot
No catch for nonprofits. We monetize through corporate partners (large employers) who pay us to route their employees' paid volunteer hours to vetted orgs. Think of it as the CSR budget subsidizing your coordination tools. Nonprofits never pay, no ads, no data sold.
No. Every volunteer who books with you becomes part of your own database, which you can export at any time. We think of ourselves as the booking layer. Your org name is front and center on every session, not ours.
Your existing volunteer agreements and insurance still apply. cūro doesn't change any of that. What we add is a trust layer: background checks, identity verification, and reliability history visible before you confirm a volunteer.
Of course. cūro is additive, not replacing. Most partners use us to fill last-minute spots, run open sessions for new volunteers, and take the load off coordination. Your newsletter and core volunteer program keep running as they always did.
You can tag any session with skill requirements (Spanish-speaking, licensed therapist, etc.) and only qualified volunteers will see it. Volunteers self-declare skills and you can flag any for additional verification.
About 10 minutes from signup to your first posted session. We can import your existing volunteer list if you want, or start fresh. Pilot partners are typically posting their first real session within an hour.
Post your first session in 10 minutes. Or grab a quick demo to see it in action.
Self-serve. Free. Go live in 10 min.
We'll walk through your specific use case.
Currently serving nonprofits across New York City. Expanding Spring 2026.