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CatalistaPosted in Lifestyle on 15 Sep 2009 |
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The Catalista smartphone application helps people find and connect with nearby volunteer opportunities based on their location and preferences.Volunteers can choose from over 250,000 opportunities from across the United States.
Catalista for iPhone wants to help reverse the falling volunteering rates and what the National Conference on Citizenship has coined a “civic recession.” Research from the Corporation of Community and National Service points out that since 2001, volunteering rates have fallen 27%, costing the nonprofit sector roughly 77 billion dollars, and the equivalent in time of nearly 3 million full-time jobs.
“We believe that it will be easier for people to discover and connect with ways to help in their communities through a smartphone, rather than a desktop. Catalista’s Facebook integration makes it fun to encourage our friends to get offline and together lend a hand in the recovery of our neighborhoods and local nonprofits,” said Catalina Ruiz-Healy, founder of Catalista LLC.
