Somewhere on this blog, I wrote about an idea I had for social justice. I was lamenting the fact that it was hard to find places to volunteer at the random times I had free – most organizations needed help during the day when I was at work, or needed 3-4 nights a week in a city 5 hours away. Which I also can’t do. I was wishing there was a website that could help me find local needs that I could practically help out with. Without spending weeks searching.
Leave it up to Google. AllForGood.org is not as robust as I was thinking, but it is a good start. Change your location to your city, and then search for categories of things to help with – education, food, health, etc. See their locations on a Google Map. Share with your friends. Pretty slick.
One idea I have: I would like to see a calendar added to it also, so that you can search by date as well as location and category. But give it a whirl to see if there is something near you that you can help with.
UPDATE: I found the post that I originally wrote about this:
Social Action For the Common Person
Also, once I got signed up and started poking around, I did see that there is a fuction to look by some dates: “today”, “this week”, etc. Just not a full calendar to click on upcoming days and times you are free.