the extraordinaries - n2y4 pitch2
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Turning spare time into social good through Micro-volunteering.
Jacob Colker, Co-Founder and CEO
74% of Americans
don’t volunteer.
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64% who work full-time, cite a lack of time as the main reason.
Wait a second!
We have billions of hours of spare time…
But it comes in brief moments.
236M sold in 2007-08. 500-700M by 2013.
Not only do we have spare time, we’re carrying powerful devices.
90% CELL PHONE
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The game changer is already in the pockets of millions of people.
We simply have to turn on it’s capacity to do social good.
GOOD. BETTER!
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Medicine Nonprofit Science Advocacy Government More
INCREASE CAPACITY!
“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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