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The Extraordinaries
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Turning spare time intosocial good throughmicro-volunteering.
Jacob Colker, Co-Founder and CEOSundeep Ahuja, President and COO
Ben Rigby, Co-Founder and CTO
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74% of Americans don’t volunteer.
Source: 2007 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
A majority cite “lack of time” as the main reason.
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Wait a second!
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We have billions of hours of spare time…
But it comes in brief moments.
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236M sold in 2007-08. 500-700M by 2013.
Not only do we have spare time, we’re carrying powerful devices.
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90%CELL PHONECOVERAGE
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The game changer is already in the pockets of millions of people.
We simply have to turn on its capacity to do social good.
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GOOD. BETTER!
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We’re building a platform for micro-volunteerism, powered by crowdsourcing.
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MedicineNonprofitScienceAdvocacy Government More
POWERED BY CROWD
INCREASE CAPACITY!
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“Got five minutes? Got a cell phone? Want to do good? The Extraordinaries can help…Turning ADD into AID.” (NPR.org, July, 2009)
"The Crowdsourcing-for-good revolution is on, with new applications rising out of San Francisco…Waiting for the bus or the doctor? Bored in a staff meeting? [Use] an app created by The Extraordinaries.” (San Francisco Magazine, June, 2009)
"The Extraordinaries will let multilingual users watch short clips of a documentary and translate subtitles while riding a bus.” (Washington Post, April, 2009)
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Winner, 2009 Knight Foundation Community Grant Boston, Massachusetts
Winner, 2009 Echoing Green Fellowship CompetitionNew York, New York
Winner, 2009 United Nations World Summit Youth Award Monterrey, Mexico
Winner, 2009 NetSquared N2Y4 Mobile ChallengeSan Jose, California
Winner, 2009 WeMediaPitchIt (Social Good) CompetitionMiami, Florida
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