EcoPickApp is a new twist on social networking designed to save time and conserve environmental energy. This simple to use mobile platform allows friends and neighbors to connect and share errands, saving each other trips to the store. For someone who is homebound, disabled, or in a Food Desert area, EcoPickApp can be a solution to more easily get sustenance and avoid the risk of hunger. Think about the convenience of using this app if you are home cooking dinner, and you need a last minute item from the store. One of your neighbors using this app may be going to or at the store anyway and could pick up your item for you.
Getting started in this mobile community is easy. All you need to do is simply download the app, set up your profile and share store visibility with at least one of your neighbors. EcoPickApp enables you to create a request for needed item(s) and post it at a store, restaurant, or other merchant of your choice from the comfort of your home. As soon as a neighbor in your mobile community enters the selected store location, he/she will be able to see your post and pick up the needed item(s) for you.
This is not only a great way for neighbors to help each other out, it can be an avenue for volunteerism in your community. Students needing to complete service credit hours will find EcoPickApp very practical in order for them to connect with community members in need of help.
EcoPickApp is a win-win for you, your neighbors, the environment and local businesses. It is networking with purpose to build and strengthen the bond between neighbors wanting to help each other out in the simplest way. Benefits include:
• Helping those who are elderly, homebound, or who live in “Food Desert” areas.
• Reciprocity: one day you are a helper, another day you are the helped.
• Helping neighbors can build a Care Score after completion of each task. The Care Score can be used for bragging rights or better, added in a Resume as proof of volunteering and service to the community.
• Bonding with those in your community, using EcoPickApp for getting to know your neighbors and build trust with each other.
• Volunteering organizations will more easily be able to identify volunteers when needed and in real time and allows them to build trust with the merchants as well.
• The environment will be cleaner with fewer emissions from members of the EcoPickApp community as they combine errands.
• Businesses that participate in this mobile community have greater opportunity for growth and building a more loyal customer base by providing a means where community members can purchase online, have their items bagged at the store and ready for pick up.
Start benefiting from the EcoPickApp mobile community today by downloading and sharing with your neighbors, so you’ll be ready the next time you need something picked up from the store!