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Miscellaneous

Each of the initiatives linked to in this category all focus on a specific but separate topic from each other. Each topic is too specialized to be given its own category hence the Miscellaneous tag.

Good Egg Project – Pledge an Egg

  • Time taken:
    About 1 minute to enter a few basic details about yourself that enables an egg to be pledged
  • Impact:
    Helps Americans to live more healthily by giving back to the community
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    100% full-on pyjama zone

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Country, Do Good, Health & Medicine, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, North America, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Under 1 minute, United States

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Spare Place – Locating Empty Shops

  • Time taken:
    5 - 10 minutes to add the location and description of an empty shop
  • Impact:
    Potential to put to good use, empty places for the benefit of the local community
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    100% full-on pyjama zone

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Community Development, Country, Do Good, Economic Development, Europe, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Under 10 minutes, United Kingdom

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Empty Properties – Reusing Empty Buildings

  • Time taken:
    5 - 10 minutes to report an empty building
  • Impact:
    Potential to improve a local neighbourhood by not allowing disused properties fall into disrepair or misuse
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    100% full-on pyjama zone

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Community Development, Country, Do Good, Europe, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Under 10 minutes, United Kingdom

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Patient Opinion – Improving UK Health Services

  • Time taken:
    Upto 15 minutes to provide your opinion on the UK Health Service
  • Impact:
    Potential to help improve the health service for the benefit of others
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes or PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Country, Do Good, Europe, Health & Medicine, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Under 20 minutes, United Kingdom

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56-U – Microvolunteering for College Students

  • Time taken:
    Under a minute - in fact, you'll need precisely 56 seconds to complete this action
  • Impact:
    Potential to increase much needed equipment in American schools
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes or PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Country, Do Good, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, North America, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Sports & Education, Under 1 minute, United States

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ShareGift – Share Your Shares for Charity

  • Time taken:
    Upto 30 minutes to fill in a form that will initiate the process of selling your small quantity of shares, which otherwise would be uneconomic to sell in such a small amount
  • Impact:
    Raises funds from sale of shares and donates the proceeds to UK based charities
  • Cost:
    Postage costs to a UK based address
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Time, Country, Do Good, Europe, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, Quickies!, Under 30 minutes, United Kingdom

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JAMOP – Just a Minute of Possibility

  • Time taken:
    1 minute to do something positive, anywhere
  • Impact:
    Contributes to the global good of the world
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes or PJs

Categories: Actions, By Time, Do Good, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, Quickies!, Under 5 minutes

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We Are What We Do – Small Actions, Big Impact

  • Time taken:
    5 - 15 minutes. There’s quite a few actions to read through.
  • Impact:
    Small action x Lots of people = Big change.
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes or PJs

Categories: Actions, By Time, Do Good, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, Quickies!, Under 20 minutes

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Human Milk Banking

  • Time taken:
    Up to 20 minutes, regularly each day while lactating!
  • Impact:
    Serving kids with medical problems who need human milk
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes or PJs

Categories: Actions, By Time, Canada, Country, Do Good, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, North America, Quickies!, Under 20 minutes, United States

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The Internet Archive

  • Time taken:
    A couple of minutes - their Uploader will do the rest!
  • Impact:
    Provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes or PJs

Categories: Actions, By Time, Do Good, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, Quickies!, Under 5 minutes

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EVP Maker – Paranormal Research

  • Time taken:
    1 - 30 minutes to study the 'spooky' phenomenon known as Electronic Voice Phenomena
  • Impact:
    Potential to expand on our knowledge of the universe - which may be different to what scientists tell us
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    Day clothes and PJs

Categories: Actions, By Category, By Time, Do Good, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, Popular Causes, Quickies!, Science & Research, Under 30 minutes

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MySurvey – Charity Donating Surveys

  • Time taken:
    Upto 30 minutes per survey
  • Impact:
    Potential to benefit many worthy causes, if you choose to donate your points to charities
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    100% full-on pyjama zone

Categories: Actions, Country, Do Good, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, North America, Quickies!, Under 1 minute, Under 30 minutes, United States

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OpinionWorld – Charity Donating Surveys

  • Time taken:
    Average 15 minutes to complete a survey
  • Impact:
    Raises money for UK based charities that help to change the world!
  • Cost:
    Nothing
  • Pyjama Rating:
    100% full-on pyjama zone!

Categories: Actions, By Time, Country, Do Good, Europe, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, Quickies!, Under 20 minutes, United Kingdom

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