Volunteer World - A place for volunteers and voluteer organizations to make contact and share stories. This is for YOU! I hope to see a wide range of contributions made here to make it a viable part of the Peyton,CO Ourtown eNewspaper. This is YOUR space! It is open to national, regional, and local events and articles about volunteering. You can also make event entries on the calendar provided. This is your social sandbox.

By Julia Smith. ::image::Yesterday I received a newsletter from Google and learned about a fun project called Your Google Stories: Earlier this month we shared a handful of stories from people who have used Google in interesting ways that helped them solve a problem large or small. Their stories range from the mundanefinding the manufacturer of a frying pan, or the composer of a songto the sublime: finding a long-lost love, welcoming a brand-new family member into the world. This series reminded me of a couple of posts we wrote earlier this summer, titled Real World Idealists. In one, we shared a love story about a volunteer from Portland, Oregon who went to Brazil to volunteer for a couple of weeks, and ended up getting married to the founder of her host NGO! With a big tip of the hat to Google, we thought we'd ask: do you have a story about how using our site helped you make a move, dream big, or solve a problem? If so, please share it below in the comments. We might follow up with you and share it on our blog!

By Jeremy MacKechnie. ::image::Are you a Spanish speaker or do you have any Spanish speaking amigos? You might not have realized that writers at our sister site, Idealistas, are blogging up a storm on topics ranging from career advice to ideas for social change that are spreading through Latin America and Spain. If you're currently looking for a nonprofit job, check out the series Trabajando en el Tercer Sector, for helpful tips on drafting a rsum, networking, and using the internet as a tool to help you find your dream job. If you're more interested in volunteering, we'll be starting a new series on el voluntariado in the near future. In the meantime, check out articles on Latin American clean energy initiatives, sustainable cities, and how the internet is helping to support the local food movement. If you're not a Spanish speaker, we sometimes translate and cross post from the Idealistas blog so look for posts like How Volunteering Can Help You Score Your Dream Job that mention that the original appeared on Idealistas. You can also visit La Vida Idealist, a group blog written by expats traveling, volunteering, and working with NGOs in Latin America.