A Craig's List for Service

Gotta love Craig Newmark. When the Obama transition team makes a metaphorical reference to a "Craig's List for service", Craig imagines what that would really look like on the Huffington Post.

He outlines a lot of different ways we can serve...and amongst those ways, we all should be able to find something that fits.

I told Craig that I particularly appreciated this option:

3. You might have the time for traditional civic engagement, where you participate in local governance. For example, you might join the PTA, or just attend local city council or board of education meetings, or join the board of a small non-profit. That's traditional grass-roots democracy, an important American tradition.

These are the traditional pipelines that a lot of our political leadership still comes out of. And that pipeline should be filled with as diverse a population of participants as our is our population of people. Too often it is not.

What do you think of Craig's Craig's List for Service? Which ones do you already do, and which ones can you image yourself doing?