At heart we all want to give something back to our community but by the end of the day we simply have no time or energy left for any kind of volunteer work. 

This is what Sparked.com, a startup by The Extraordinaries realized and decided to do bring an intelligent solution to this problem. They launched this project to help non-profits through crowd-sourcing skilled volunteers who need to take out little time out of their social networking activities and leverage the some more wonders of internet by volunteering without any geographical barriers.  

According to Sparked "Every single day we spend nearly 400 million hours on Facebook and we watch over two billion YouTube videos." further adding "What if we could complete a useful volunteer activity in the same time?"

At Sparked.com anyone can become a micro-volunteer and share their expertise through accepting simple challenges posted by various non-profit organizations. Its all about sharing your skills. Jacob Colker, CEO and co-founder of Sparked believes that the best way to save money is not to spend it and simply find a way that can complete the same task without paying for it. Therefore, non-profits can ask for help from billions of users online rather than hiring expensive consultants or designers. 

You can contribute as an individual or as a group and help in wide range of tasks like: Designing logos, designing templates, writing a review, brainstorming new ideas, reviewing job descriptions, giving feedbacks, developing strategies, designing a background image for twitter, ideas that can help in improving their website and many more tasks among which some of them are bound to match your expertise. 

It is a piece of cake. 

Step 1: Click on the "Get Started" button on the home page. 

Step 2: It will take you to a page where various issues like Animals, Politics, Education, Food, Environment, Science, Religion etc. are displayed. You simply need to select the ones that you find interesting.

  

Step 3: Here you will be provided with a list of skills like, Social Media, Operations, Public Relations, Fundraising, Copy Writing etc.; you need to choose the ones that you posses. 

Step 4: Lastly you sign up with them, either through Facebook or your email id. 

After verifying your sign up from your Email you will be taken to a page full of various challenges posted by non-profits with a small brief about the organization and number of days left for the challenge. You simply click on the challenge and respond in a message box that will be displayed on the next page. 

You can contribute as company as well, many small businesses use sparked and inspire their employees to care about the world. Learn more.

If you are a non-profit looking for some help and that though without any costs, click here to learn how micro-volunteers can provide you solutions for your challenges. 

"Ultimately, Sparked makes volunteering as convenient as using Facebook, for non profit managers, corporate employees, and individual volunteers. It's a bold step into the future of volunteerism." concludes Jacob Colker.  

Check it out if you have a noble bone in your body and do share your experience with us. 

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