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Add to the Internet Archive
Digital
content is being created at an alarming rate. Help
to preserve this medium by contributing anything
that you know that is in the public domain to a
digital library. |
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The Internet
Archive
 The
Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites
and other cultural artefacts in digital form. You can contribute
movies, audios, or books to the archive if they're in the public
domain or if you own the rights to it.
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Time Taken:
A
couple of minutes - their Uploader will do the rest! |
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Impact:
Provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and
the general public |
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Cost:
Nothing |
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Pyjama Rating:
Day clothes or PJs |
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Similar sites:
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Be the Eyes for Research
Projects
Computer
technology hasn’t quite reached the level of the
human brain and eye yet. The following projects all
require the use of a human eye to spot or detect
something that today’s computer software are not
capable of achieving. |
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Stardust@Home
 Hunt
for interstellar dust, picked up by the Stardust spacecraft
during a dramatic encounter with a comet. Join thousands of
other volunteers around the world searching for these particles
using a 'Virtual Microscope'.
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Time Taken:
Approx
10 minutes – a small price to pay to find a star! |
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Impact:
Contributing knowledge to the scientific community about our
Galaxy |
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Cost:
Nothing |
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Pyjama Rating:
100% full-on pyjama zone! |
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Similar sites:
3 more to explore!
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Charity Donating Surveys
Fill in a
survey and at no cost to you, money is donated to a
charity. Simple as that! The donations are derived
from payments the survey company receives from
organisations wishing to know opinions on all sorts
of topics from people just like you. |
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OpinionWorld
 For
every completed survey at OpinionWorld, a small donation is made
to a charity that you choose from a group of 3 organisations.
Surveys cover a broad range of topics and issues and depending
on your profile, you could receive 1 – 2 surveys per week.
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Time Taken:
Average
15 minutes to complete a survey |
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Impact:
Share
your opinion and help change the world! |
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Cost:
Nothing |
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Pyjama Rating:
100% full-on pyjama zone! |
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Donate AirMiles / Credit Card Loyalty Points
You travel,
you fly, you collect points. Why not do something
magical with the points and convert them into
something tangible that could put a smile on a
medically ill person. The following initiatives
allows you to do just that. |
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Make-A-Wish
Foundation
 Donate
airline miles to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and enrich the lives
of children with life-threatening medical conditions, whose
wishes frequently involve air travel.
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Time Taken:
A
couple of minutes to fill out the form! |
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Impact:
You can
make a child's wish come true - wow! |
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Cost:
Cost of
postage |
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Pyjama Rating:
100% full-on pyjama zone! |
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Similar sites:
2 more to explore!
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Donate Milk
This is an
unusual home volunteering opportunity for those
ladies who wish to help out a sick or fragile
infant. The donated milk is shipped out at no cost
to you, to hospitals in need of such milk. |
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Human Milk
Banking
 Ladies.
Donate your surplus milk to help a sick or fragile infant via
the Human Milk Banking Association of North America? Donor
mothers are women who are currently lactating and have surplus
milk. Involves a screening test and complying with certain
conditions.
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Time Taken:
Up to 20
minutes! |
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Impact:
Serving
kids with medical problems who need human milk |
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Cost:
Nothing |
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Pyjama Rating:
Day clothes or PJs |
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Similar sites:
Awaiting more sites! |
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Genealogy Help Wanted
Share your
knowledge about your family’s past that may help
others trace their descendants. Answer an appeal for
information or participate in a forum. Either way,
the following project allows you to divulge your
past for future generations to enjoy. |
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GENUKI
 Genuki
contains many pages on UK genealogy data, partitioned out into
counties, parishes and topics. Volunteers are required to be
directly responsible in maintaining certain pages that need more
information added to them. Sound interesting?
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Time Taken:
Up to 30
minutes, relatively speaking! |
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Impact:
Potential to help others in their search for their descendants |
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Cost:
Nothing |
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Pyjama Rating:
100% full-on pyjama zone! |
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Similar sites:
2 more to explore!
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Micro / Ethical Lending
Every single
one of the links below allows you to loan your money
to social/ethical projects where you choose to
receive interest on the loan or not. The operative
word here is ‘loan’ and with these schemes you are
virtually guaranteed to be paid back. The longer you
leave your money with these schemes the greater the
impact your money will have. |
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Kiva
 Described
as loans that change lives. Kiva lets you lend to a specific
entrepreneur in the developing world with loans as low as $25.
There's an extremely small chance of the borrower defaulting on
payments. In essence, lend your money out, get your money back,
re-lend again.
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Time Taken:
Up to 15
minutes! |
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Impact:
Empowers people to lift themselves out of poverty |
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Cost:
Nothing, as you will get your loan back |
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Pyjama Rating:
100% full-on pyjama zone! |
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Similar sites:
11 more to explore!
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Paranormal Research
OK, so some
of this research is a bit 'out there', but if the
boundaries aren't pushed, then the human race will
potentially be ignorant of what is or isn't
possible. |
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UFO Watch
 Believe
you saw a UFO? Remember, record and then report the details to a
national database, where you can view other people's reports.
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Time Taken:
10 - 20
minutes, dependant on whether you've been abducted or not! |
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Impact:
Could
answer one of those BIG questions. Are we alone in the Universe
or not? |
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Cost:
Nothing |
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Pyjama Rating:
Day clothes or PJs |
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Similar sites:
1 more to explore!
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Participate in Questionaires for Research Projects
There are so
many research projects out there, all inviting input
from people just like you. They can take the form of
surveys, games, experiments and every single one of
them can be conducted anonymously over the web. Your
knowledge, life experience or wisdom are all
valuable to researchers. Each one of the links below
will take you to a research project where your input
is greatly valued. |
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Social Psychology
Network
 The
Social Psychology Network provides links to web-based
experiments, surveys, and other social psychology studies
compiled and conducted by students and professionals alike. Many
categories to choose from including relationships, perception,
beliefs and attitudes etc.
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Time Taken:
Average
10 - 30 minutes. Reveal your inner self to a complete stranger! |
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Impact:
Adds
to a greater understanding of the human psyche! |
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Cost:
Nothing |
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Pyjama Rating:
Day clothes or PJs |
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Similar sites:
7 more to explore!
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Phone Apps / Actions for the Common Good
There's a
vast array of apps out there for smart phones giving
you more functionality to your mobile than you ever
thought was possible. Now comes along apps that
allow you to take actions that benefit others
on the go, on demand and on your mobile! |
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Give Work
 Give
Work lets you support refugees in Kenya by completing short,
on-screen tasks. The refugees are training to complete these
same tasks and, by volunteering to tag a video or trace a road,
you will generate money to support their training.
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Time Taken:
A few minutes. Close
the gap with your app, between rich and poor! |
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Impact:
Supports refugees with their start to a new life |
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Cost:
Nothing |
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Pyjama Rating:
Day clothes or PJs |
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Similar sites:
2 more to explore!
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Pledge Bank
Volunteering
from home can perhaps be lonely. However, knowing
that others are doing the same as you is not so bad.
This opportunity can potentially recruit others to
give you that extra 'zip' in the air knowing that
you're not alone in what you are doing. |
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PledgeBank
 You're
keen to do one of the actions listed on this website like
distributing leaflets promoting this initiative, but would
prefer it if you could enlist several people to help you out. On
PledgeBank, you can do just that. Make a pledge, set your
target, get people and then do it!
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Time Taken:
Up to 10
minutes, now that's a promise! |
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Impact:
Potential to multiply the impact of any actions you wish to
partake in |
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Cost:
Nothing |
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Pyjama Rating:
Day clothes or PJs |
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Similar sites:
Awaiting more sites! |
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Promote or Help Good Causes
There are
many, many worthwhile causes that could do with a
little extra help in the 'spreading awareness'
department. This can be done from home by just
adding a banner to your website to discussing a
charities activity in a forum. |
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Donate Life
America
 Interested
in human organ, eye and tissue donations? Think other people
should sign up to this worthy cause. Well, there are ways you
can spread the word and increase donations right from the
comfort of your home, when you visit Donate Life America.
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Time Taken:
Between
10 to 30 minutes- donate some time now! |
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Impact:
Potential to save so many lives |
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Cost:
Nothing |
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Pyjama Rating:
100% full-on pyjama zone! |
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Similar sites:
2 more to explore!
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Share Your Photos, Clipart, Pictures and Videos
As the
saying goes, a picture speaks a thousand words. The
following projects all use pictures in one form or
another to convey a message, raise money for charity
or to just freely share for the common good. |
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Open Clip Art
Project
 The
Open Clip Art Project aims to create an archive of user
contributed clip art that can be freely used. All graphics
submitted to the project should be placed into the Public
Domain.
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Time Taken:
Under a
minute to upload – might take a bit longer to create the clipart
though! |
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Impact:
Contributes to more diversity in the clipart world – doodle
away! |
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Cost:
Nothing |
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Pyjama Rating:
100% full-on pyjama zone! |
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Similar sites:
6 more to explore!
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Submit an Idea
The sites
below all allow you to submit an idea which could
potentially change the world. Most of them are run
on the basis that you submit your idea for the
common good rather than making money out of them. |
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WhyNot?
 Got
an idea you think might change the world or improve upon an
existing one. If you have, submit it to WhyNot? for others to
comment on and possibly act on your idea. Many categories to choose from including Community,
Health, Products etc.
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Time Taken:
From a
flash of inspiration to
a few
minutes to document it down! |
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Impact:
Potential to change the world or to make it rich! Change the world
is better!! |
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Cost:
Nothing |
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Pyjama Rating:
100% full-on pyjama zone! |
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Similar sites:
5 more to explore!
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Vote to Donate for Free
Simple idea
and so easy to benefit worthy causes. Just vote for
a cause that then either helps to spread the word or
donates money to that cause for free. |
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TwitCause
 Follow
and vote for a cause of the week @TwitCause and then impact the
world as you spread the word and point others to ways to help
the cause via Tweets.
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Time Taken:
A few minutes that ticks
all the right boxes! |
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Impact:
Helps to spread awareness of worthy causes. |
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Cost:
Nothing |
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Pyjama Rating:
100% full-on pyjama zone! |
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Similar sites:
2 more to explore!
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