Creative Volunteering

Bingo Lingo: How Time-Pressed Pros Can Do Good

Young woman thinking of creative ideas.

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Beautifully crafted website, Sparked, allows even “Busy people like you” (that’s Sparked lingo), to help out and be useful. It’s a captivating notion, since, frankly, we’re all terribly busy, and yet we all really want to help out. Bingo: we’re immediately hooked.
So here’s the deal: Sparked first asks you what causes fire you up. Then you’re asked to to define what you’re good at - from copyrighting and computer programming to marketing and design. Armed with this information, Sparked then goes and gleans out a series of assignments, based on your skill set and your interests, that you should be able to do, for free. Say you’re a copywriter, then you’d be offered to write a letter for a fund or create a captivating slogan for a charity. Yes, it’s work, definitely, it’s an effort - but it’s accessible, at your fingertips. Why not do it?
We’re hooked. No, we’re sparked.