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colift
colift connects you with civic tasks from local nonprofits and public agencies. Choose a task when you have time. Complete it on your own schedule. Each task adds to a public dataset that anyone can use.
Free & nonprofit-runOpen public datasets (CC0)SNAP-certifiable
Street tree count, volunteers needed Saturday morning.
Community notice
Food Access Coalition · Field data, remote
Map free-meal sites near transit stops in your zip code
Near you SNAP/EBT certifiable
~ 2 hoursVolunteer
8.5 hours certified
this month
Tree census
2.0 h
2.0 h
Translation
3.5 h
3.5 h
Audits
3.0 h
3.0 h
Work hours · pre-filled
Work neighbors are doing this week
Browse freely, sign up when you find one you want to volunteer for. Every task helps someone outside yourself.
A public good
Every dataset volunteers help build is released free to the public, to libraries, government, and anyone who needs it. That's what makes it qualify as community service in the first place.
The real cost of a grocery run
Grocery prices
Volunteers photograph shelf tags at supermarkets, bodegas, and dollar stores. The compiled dataset goes to food banks, researchers, and county health teams tracking food access — block by block.
Benefits pages people can actually use
Public-site audits
Guided accessibility and usability audits on the government, nonprofit, and public-service sites residents depend on. Findings go straight to the agencies that run them.
What a ride to the ER should cost
Ambulance rates
Volunteers pin down published EMS billing rates city by city. Patients, journalists, and researchers can check any bill against the free national dataset.
Research that couldn't happen alone
Citizen science
Volunteers on Zooniverse classify wildlife photos, historic diaries, and deep-space images. Every project ships a public dataset researchers actually use.
Hours that count toward your work requirement
If you receive SNAP/EBT, your reviewed volunteer hours can be certified on the work-hours form your state accepts, pre-filled with your details. You download it and upload it to your benefits portal yourself.
- Your real measured hours, capped, never inflated.
- A nonprofit reviewer signs off on the work.
- You stay in control of your information the whole way.
SNAP / EBT work-hours verification
Pre-filled with your details
Volunteer
M. R.
Month
This month
Case #
●●●●● 4421
Reviewed by
Civic Data Coalition
Hours by category
- Street tree census2.0 h
- Public-notice translation3.5 h
- Benefits portal accessibility audit3.0 h
Total certified8.5 h
You download this and upload it to your benefits portal yourself. colift never submits it for you.
How to post on colift
Sponsor civic tasks, review the work that comes back, and certify volunteer hours for the people you serve.
Local nonprofits
Tasks your staff already need
Public agencies
Civic data, audits, translation
Free certification
Work-hours form generated for you