Have you ever wanted to help your community with a problem, but didn’t know where to start? Maybe it’s a run-down park or an opportunity to bring teen driver instruction to a local community. Now, you have the power to fix it. State Farm wants to help identify and address key issues faced by consumers through its initiative, “Cause an Effect.”

‘Cause an Effect,’ a State Farm crowd-sourced philanthropic initiative, lets communities determine where grant funding is awarded, exclusively through Facebook. The application is short and simple. All you have to do is submit the “Cause”; you don’t have to “run the program.” Any Facebook user can submit a “Cause” as long as it fits into the categories of safety, community development or education. Go to www.facebook.com/#!/statefarmlook, click on the “Cause an Effect” tab, and submit your “Cause.” The submission phase is open through March 20. After the submission stage ends, the State Farm Youth Advisory Board (YAB) will narrow down all the submissions to the top 100 finalists.