This past weekend, I sat down with Ben Rigby and Jacob Colker in between sessions at the Net Impact Conference [1] in Philly. Ben and Jacob are co-founders of the Extraordinaries [2], and they want to turn your spare time into social good by delivering on-demand opportunities to volunteer. Sounds simple enough, but the real kicker, is that they are building a platform to enable all of this volunteer activity to take place on your mobile phone.
I know what you're thinking - how could anyone have a meaningful volunteer experience from the comfort of their mobile phone, let alone in 20 minutes? But, as issues of work life balance mount, and the constraints on our precious little free time become even greater, it's efforts like the Extraordinaries that may just transform the way we find time to give back and volunteer. To learn more about how it works check out the great video [3]they’ve put together.
And, if you have ideas on the kinds of high quality volunteer experiences that could be supported by this kind of mobile platform, we want to hear from you. Would you use this? What are the types of things you'd be most interested in doing? Do you think short term engagement like this could ever bring the same kind of satisfaction as hands-on volunteering?
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