Keith Daly

Key findings in a TRG project with the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance show a strong link between people who vote and arts patrons:

One Third of voters in the 2008 Presidential Election were arts patrons

Sparked is the world's first (their claim) entirely-online volunteer network and it's free for non-profits! It appears that after sign-up, the non-profit submits a project. It then gets posted for Sparked's registered volunteers who consider offering their help to causes they believe in. The promise for the non-profit of course, is a pool of highly qualified volunteers who want to help but may not always have a great deal of time to contribute. Hence, the term 'microvolunteering.'

From Sparked.com:

"What is microvolunteering?

Microvolunteering has four defining characteristics:

Convenient It's volunteerism that fits into your schedule when you have time - typically (but not necessarily) via an internet connected device such as a personal computer or mobile phone. In practice, to achieve this level of convenience, there is often no training or vetting necessary by the nonprofit.

Bite-sized Volunteer tasks are broken into small(-ish) pieces, so that you can complete a task in the time you have available (whatever that time may be).

Crowdsourced The nonprofit that needs help asks a large(-ish) group for assistance. Micro-volunteers who have the time, interest, and skills (ideally), and who may be previously unknown to the nonprofit, do the work.