Imagine a salesperson, with 15 minutes to spare between meetings, brings her travel mug for a refill to a local coffee shop. Unfortunately, she’s sans laptop and the noisy crowd makes phone calls impossible. Now imagine a development coordinator at an environmental charity looking for anecdotes about conservation that the organization can use for outreach. If only someone could connect them.

Microlending and microfunding have led to microvolunteering and The Extraordinaires are leading the way with a website that makes it easy to ask for help and even easier to provide assistance. They’ve even created a free iPhone application for those on-the-go to contribute. Did we mention how easy it is?

Non-profit organizations can post missions such as:

• Identifying people, places or things on a map
• Taking, uploading and organizing photos
• Researching a topic, issue or question
• Creating a custom mission asking for feedback or a personal story

We’re recommending our non-profit clients use it to collect photos that attendees have taken at their events. How will you “Be Extraordinary”?