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Since December 2009, thousands have joined the movement to switch from large corporate banks to smaller, community-oriented financial institutions, and Move Your Money is spearheading the effort. In just a few short weeks, Move Your Money has generated 20,000+ followers and has been featured in Time, the Nation, Newsweek and on the Colbert Report. They provide a list of small banks and encourage people to make the switch and move their money from the corporate banks who played a role in the current financial crisis.

They’re asking for the community to remain engaged and share their stories about where they bank and how they rate their service. What if there was an Extraordinaries Application that would map community banks and allow you to share your experience with them? Next time you’re at your bank or credit union, you could snap a photo, mark the GPS location of the bank and write or record a few sentences about your experiences banking there. We could go one step further and rate each company's behavior with Citizen's Market, an organization already using The Extraordinaries to track corporate behavior.

Help bring the economy out of the downward spiral? Now that’s Extraordinary.

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Kim Bale is the Community Outreach Intern for The Extraordinaries. She has also been published in Curve Magazine.