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Connecting communities across the state and states across the nation

Everything happening in your community. One approved feed, on every screen in town.

Event Bucket is the civic event and community broadcast platform. Residents submit local events in minutes, your team approves them once, and they appear everywhere — public board, city website, kiosks, and lobby TVs — automatically.

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Cost to residents, always
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Board, displays & alerts online

Not another calendar.
A civic broadcast system.

Your community's channel, without hiring a media team. Built for towns where Facebook, paper flyers, and scattered calendars are not enough.

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It broadcasts what matters
Calendars list events. Event Bucket broadcasts what matters, your events, PSAs, alerts, and local life, to every screen and citizen at once.
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One approved feed
Your website, lobby TVs, community centers, radio partners, and citizens all pull from one approved feed. No copy-paste, no scattered posts.
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Submit, approve, done
Citizens submit events. Staff approve them. Screens, embeds, and public pages update automatically, no extra work for your team.
For cities & organizations

From sign-up to city-wide broadcast

No developers, no servers, no ongoing IT burden. One approved event is all it takes to go live.

Set up your board

An administrator creates the account, uploads your logo, and locks in a permanent web address. Under 30 minutes.

Go live

You get a public board, an admin dashboard, a TV display with a queue view, live weather alerts, and a pin on the national map.

The community submits

Residents and organizers post their own events. You approve from the dashboard. Expired events clear themselves.

Every screen stays current

Approved items broadcast to your website, kiosks, and lobby TVs at once — no copy-paste, no stale flyers.

Your community, heard.

Every yard sale, block party, health fair, and festival — visible to every resident, every visitor, and every screen in town.

For cities & organizations

Everything your city needs.
Nothing your residents pay for.

Full administrative control, free resident access, and every feature included in every plan — no add-ons, no paywalls, no per-user fees.

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Admin Approval Panel
Review, approve, or reject every community-submitted event before it goes live. Rejection emails are sent automatically with your reason. Full control, zero spam.
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Analytics Dashboard
Track submissions, approvals, rejections, and community engagement over monthly, quarterly, and annual periods. Visual charts with one-click exports.
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PDF & PowerPoint Reports
Generate branded reports for council meetings, budget reviews, or stakeholders. One click exports clean, presentation-ready documents with your city logo.
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Audit Log
Every action, approvals, rejections, edits, logins, is timestamped and logged. Export to CSV or PDF for compliance, FOIA requests, or internal review.
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PSA Ticker Banners
Push urgent public service announcements that scroll across every display. Boil water notices, road closures, emergency updates, seen instantly by your community.
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Business Spotlight
Feature a local business each month on the live display rotation. Support your local economy while keeping the community board engaging and relevant.
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Custom Branding
Upload your city logo, set your accent color, and get a custom URL slug (e.g. theeventbucket.com/waynesvillemo). Your board, your brand.
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Automated Email Notifications
Confirmation emails, rejection notices, and edit-code delivery are all handled automatically. Submitters get a secure code to update or cancel their own events.
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City-Limits Verification
Submissions are automatically checked against your city's geographic boundaries. Only events within your jurisdiction appear on your board.
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Lobby TV Mode
A full-screen auto-rotating slideshow designed for lobby TVs, library screens, and community center displays. Events cycle with flyer images, details, and a "Next Up" queue.
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FEMA IPAWS + Weather Alerts
Automatic alerts from the National Weather Service AND FEMA IPAWS. AMBER Alerts, Blue Alerts, Silver Alerts, Civil Emergency, Evacuation, Shelter-in-Place, Nuclear, and severe weather. On-screen banner plus audible alert tones. Text-to-speech announces the alert type aloud. Adds a public-display layer to your existing alert strategy by showing weather and emergency information on community-facing screens.
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Scheduled Video Broadcasts
Your own city broadcast channel. Schedule city council meeting replays, PSA videos, community announcements, and local business features to play at specific dates and times, or on a continuous rotation. Build a weekly programming schedule without touching a playout system.
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Auto-Rotating Slideshow
Events rotate on a configurable timer. The currently featured event shows full details while upcoming events appear in a sidebar queue. No manual management needed.
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PSA Ticker Overlay
Important announcements scroll continuously across the bottom of the display, independent of the slideshow. Priority-tiered for emergencies versus routine notices.
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Captive-Audience Programming
Turn every lobby TV in your city into a community channel. City hall, rec center, library, senior center, community center. Every minute a resident spends waiting is a minute your city is informing them about events, alerts, volunteer opportunities, and local businesses.
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Auto-Expiring Events
Past events disappear automatically after their end date. No stale content, no manual cleanup. Your board always shows what's current and upcoming.

Important: Event Bucket is not a replacement for official emergency notification, 911, sirens, or SMS/phone alert systems. It is a public information display and civic broadcast layer.

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Free Event Submissions
Any citizen, nonprofit, or organization can submit events for free, no account required. Just fill out the form, upload a flyer, and your city reviews it.
Free for citizens
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Filter by Date Range
Pull up this week's events, next month's festivals, or any custom date range. Stop scrolling through slides, find exactly what you need, instantly.
Free for citizens
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Browse by Category
Pick a category and see only what matches. Community, Music, Sports, Family, Faith, Food, Arts, Education, Business, Church, Yard Sale, Festival, Concert, Fundraiser, Volunteer Opportunities. Search by keyword too.
Free for citizens
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Volunteer Opportunities
One central place to find volunteer needs across your region. Churches looking for Vacation Bible School helpers, food pantries needing Saturday sorters, boosters needing hands for the festival, Rotary 5K volunteers. Posted by the org, browsed by neighbors who want to help. Always free.
Free forever
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Yard Sales & Community Sales
Every Saturday yard sale, estate sale, moving sale, and craft fair in one place. Map view, date filter, printable list. Post yours in two minutes. Find one near you in five seconds.
Free for citizens
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Print & Export
Generate a clean print-ready event list or export to CSV. Perfect for church bulletins, neighborhood newsletters, senior center postings, and personal planning.
Free for citizens
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Self-Service Event Edits
Submitters receive a secure edit code by email. Use it to update dates, change venues, edit details, or request cancellation, all without contacting city staff.
Free for citizens
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No Account Required
Browse events, watch the live display, filter, print, export, all without signing up, logging in, or giving away personal data. Zero friction for your community.
Free for citizens
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Website Embed Widget
Drop a single line of code into your city website and get a live, auto-updating event feed that blends seamlessly with your existing design. Light and dark themes auto-detected.
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Auto-Theme Detection
The embed widget automatically reads your website's background color and switches between light and dark modes. No configuration needed, it just looks right.
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National Partner Map
Every participating city appears on the national Event Bucket network map. Citizens can discover events in any partner city across America.
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Radio Partner Integration
Local radio stations can access your city's event feed to read live on-air. A free partnership that extends your reach to listeners across the community.
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Mobile-Responsive Design
Every screen, the community board, admin panel, submission form, and embed widget, works beautifully on phones, tablets, laptops, and lobby TVs.
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Shareable City URL
Every city gets a permanent, shareable link (theeventbucket.com/yourcity) that works on any device. Share it on social media, in newsletters, or on printed materials.
For cities & organizations

Why cities choose Event Bucket over
Facebook and website calendars

Governed, accountable, and always current — one source of truth for everyone in town.

  • Official approval before anything goes live
  • No algorithm deciding who sees local information
  • No account required for residents
  • Events expire automatically, so the board stays clean
  • Lobby TV mode for public buildings
  • Embeddable feed for your existing website
  • Printable and exportable event lists
  • One source of truth for residents, staff, partners, and local media

Cities Pay. Citizens Use It Free.
Zero Burden on Residents.

City Plans get the full civic broadcast platform. The Community Plan is $79/month for churches, nonprofits, schools, civic groups, and businesses. Citizens are always free. City pricing is based on population, so small towns are not priced like large cities.

What does it cost to serve your city?

Enter your city and state below. We'll look up your population and show you exactly what your city pays, no surprises, no sales calls.

Pricing is based on U.S. Census population data. All city plans include the full platform.

The Community Plan is designed for organizations and businesses, not municipalities. If you're a city or county government looking for the full platform with alerts, analytics, and city branding, use the City Plans tab to look up your pricing.

Live Display with Queue View
Always Free

Your city's live event board with a "Next Up" queue and real-time weather alerts. Watch on lobby TVs, personal devices, or shared displays. No login, no account.

Browse, Filter, Print & Export
Also Free

Browse by category, filter by week or month, search by keyword, print event listings, and export, all included at no cost to citizens.

The Event Bucket™ believes community events should be accessible to everyone. Your city invests in the platform so citizens face zero barriers to staying connected.

Verified Community Information

Every event in the feed comes directly from the organizer through the city's official community board and is reviewed by a city administrator before going live. Your station isn't relaying secondhand details, you're delivering first-party, city-verified event information your listeners can trust.

The Event Bucket™ is a community-first platform. Radio partners help us reach more cities by spreading the word on-air and online. The more cities on the network, the richer your event feed becomes. Everyone wins.

For visitors & tourism organizations

One statewide network. Every local event.

Every city on Event Bucket broadcasts its own events, and every board is connected, so a visitor traveling the state can open one platform and see what is happening in every community along the way. Tourism organizations join the same network to spotlight their region, turning dozens of separate calendars into a single front door for the whole state.

For residents

Find your community board

Select a state to see where Event Bucket is live, browse local events, or submit your own. Amber states have active boards — new communities join the network every month.

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Live in your community already? Submitting an event is free, takes about two minutes, and needs no account.

See It in a 10-Minute Demo

In one short demo, we'll show how a citizen submits an event, city staff approve it, and the event appears automatically on your public board, website embed, and lobby TV display.

Request a demo Launch your city's board

Bring The Event Bucket™ to Your City

Fill out the form below and your community board can be live in as little as 10 minutes. All you need is one event to get started.

theeventbucket.com /

City name plus two-letter state, all lowercase, no spaces — for example waynesvillemo or lebanonmo. This address is permanent once set.

Monthly subscription · Cancel anytime · Live in as little as 10 minutes

Our Radio Partners

Local and regional radio stations broadcasting community events across the network.

Contact & Support

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We typically respond within 1–2 business days.

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