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Boston, MA – June 17, 2009 — The Extraordinaries is excited to announce
that we have won an important grant from the John S. and James L. Knight
Foundation (http://www.KnightFoundation.org).
This is a breakthrough moment for our team, and we are incredibly
grateful to the Knight Foundation for this opportunity. With this
critical grant, The Extraordinaries will run an intensive pilot in San
Jose, California featuring our volunteer-on-demand software. Over the
next year, we'll be working closely with nonprofits and community
organizations in San Jose to engage and harness the enthusiasm of their
volunteers.
The Knight Foundation is a national foundation
with local roots. The foundation seeks out opportunities that can
transform both communities and journalism, works to help them reach
their highest potential, and works to ensure that each community's
citizens get the information they need to thrive in a democracy.
"We're honored that Knight is giving us this opportunity" said Jacob
Colker, Co-Founder and CEO of The Extraordinaries. "We are excited that our
mission to help community organizations engage their supporters through
micro-volunteer tasks fits with the Knight Foundations' objective of
empowering communities."
delivers micro‐volunteer tasks to people whenever and wherever they are
available by mobile phone and the web, allowing organizations strapped
for funding and resources to engage and leverage their supporters.
Despite busy schedules, we all have time, usually when waiting: for the
metro, in lines, or at the doctor’s office. With these spare minutes,
we can do something extraordinary.
