The Decider said on Tue Mar 04 03:08:12 +0000 2008 | permalink
Tagged: microvolunteer

MicroVolunteering

I’ve spoke to a few people about microvolunteering and it seems to stir interest. Microvolunteering is a similar idea to Velcro in so much that 1 little hook and eye won’t make much difference but many hooks and eyes can hold a lot of weight. So, what is it?

MicroVolunteering

Microvolunteering is the idea that volunteering small amounts of time by many people makes a difference. If you pickup trash at your favorite park or volunteer at the pet shelter for even 10 or 15 minutes this could make a huge impact on your community. Now everyone has 10, 15 or 30 minutes a day or week to give. My idea is to create a central website to coordinate such activities. Someone or organization could post a job that needs to be done and individuals could sign up to do it. Or, jobs could automatically be created by just logging what you did while you walked your dog around the block, like:

Picked up garbage around the bus stop at Riverside and Lomax St.

It’s basically a social networking site that is centralized around making your community a better place. Want to know more? Me too! I’m making this up as I go along.

I’m looking for a corporate sponsor to foot the bill for the website development and then they could brand it however they like. I would like to see a Ford or Apple or Google or some other multinational fund the crap out this so we could really make an impact in our communities on our time and in our own personal ways.

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Ella says MicroVolunteer