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First Lady Michelle Obama is in San Francisco today calling on Americans to make this a "summer of service".

She’ll be giving the keynote address at a conference on volunteerism at the Moscone Center which is a kickoff of United We Serve, a national call to community service from President Barack Obama.

So how do you find volunteer opporunities in your area?  Leave it the tech community and Craig Newmark (Craigslist)

From Craig’s Blog :

Hey, the deal with the United We Serve AllForGood.org thing is that we’re making it easy to find volunteer opportunities near you.

This is the "craigslist for service. "

Check out the right hand side, top, of this page. You’ll see a "gadget", just enter your zipcode or similar starting with the location link, and you’ll get it, no problem.

You can also click the search icon, the magnifying glass, to search more broadly.

AllforGood.org explains on their website that they are

made up of volunteering enthusiasts from places like Google, Craigslist Foundation, UCLA, YouTube, FanFeedr and Aha! Ink. As a contributor to the All for Good project, Google is hosting the All for Good website and products. Several Google engineers worked on All for Good as a 20-percent project (Google lets engineers spend a day a week on projects that interest them), collaborating with a broader team to build the product.

So now that you are inspired to go out and make a difference, you know where to start looking!