The Extraordinaries - N2Y4 Pitch2

Turning spare time into social good through Micro-volunteering. Jacob Colker, Co-Founder and CEO

74% of Americans don’t volunteer. 64% who work full-time, cite a lack of time as the main reason. !"#$%&'()**+(,-!-(.#$&/#("0(1/2"$(!3/454%5(

Wait a second!

We have billions of hours of spare time… But it comes in brief moments.

Not only do we have spare time, we’re carrying powerful devices. 236M sold in 2007-08. 500-700M by 2013.

90% CELL PHONE COVERAGE(

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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“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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