After learning that President Obama and the First Lady were making community service a top priority even before taking office, Google thought they could help make a difference. Many organizations are now doing great work to enable community service locally, but its really complex to search across opportunities from a variety of places and find what’s right for you.

Google has experience in finding relevant information from scattered sources. With this mission in mind, a group of “20%” engineers, designers, and program managers from Google and other tech companies began work on All for Good, a new service to help you find volunteer events in your community, and share those events with your friends. And most importantly, this opportunity to volunteer in your community is being featured right on Google home page.

An opportunity to volunteer in your community from Google home page
All for Good servers as an unique platform for volunteer activities across many major volunteering sites and organizations like VolunteerMatch, Reach Out and Read, HandsOn Network and United Way, thus All for Good is bringing search, scale and openness to community service! Google is hoping to boost the amazing efforts of these existing volunteer organizations. Here is a snapshot of Volunteering activities matching ‘online marketing’ :

Volunteering activities matching online marketing

A new platform YouTube Video Volunteers, has also been designed to use your video creating skills for good and make a difference. YouTube Video Volunteers is your chance to make connections with non-profits organizations who needs your help to broadcast their cause and change the world.

All for Good is a new kind of collaboration between the private, public and nonprofits sectors to build free and open technology to empower citizens.

The First Lady Michelle Obama calls on you to serve, and putting your time and talent towards doing good. You can learn more at serve.gov, where Google is proud to power search.

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