Open Volunteer Position: KindSpring Story Editor

Team Info:

KindSpring.orgTo encourage anonymous acts of kindness, we started a fun game of tag -- do a selfless act for someone, and leave a card behind telling them to pay it forward. A million smile cards have been shipped anonymously without any charge through our site, members have shared 20,000 kindness stories as a part of KindSpring Community. Our weekly e-newsletter with top picks of kindness stories has grown to over 100,000 subscribers in a short time.
 

Volunteer Role:

KindSpring Story Editor
The KindSpring kindness portal has a social networking component called Smile Groups, which enables members to anonymously share stories about acts of kindness (they use nicknames). Our global team of editors reads all the stories lined up in the story queue and edits the stories so that they are ready to be published on the main site. The editors play a crucial role in encouraging new visitors to get involved in spreading the spirit of kindness! The role involves minor editing to correct typos, grammatical errors, etc At a minimum, we ask all editors to publish at least 5 stories per week.

 

More Context:

This role requires proficient writing skills and interest in engaging more with content related to kindness. On average, it will require about 3-5 hours per week.

 

Sign Up:

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Volunteer Reflections

imageOct 04: Can You Spot The Smile Cards? Can you spot the Smile Card below? Student on our campus did lots of acts of kindness, and spread a ton of Smile Cards too! I'll need to get a refill. :)
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imageOct 12: Be Kind To Everyone Thought you all might be interested in seeing this letter we sent to Ellen Degeneres, that features ServiceSpace, heart pins, and Be Kind T-shirts. In case you didn’t hear about it, Ellen...
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imageOct 12: Awakin Retreat In Harlem! Dear friends who have planted many, many seeds of love, compassion and joy in our lives through innumerable circles and retreats in New York ... I wanted to share pictures and an overview of an...
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imageOct 07: Very Sad News. Len Traubman Who ... Very sad news. Len Traubman who was a friend of Service Space passed away unexpectedly on October 4th. He and his wife, Libby Traubman, started the Jewish Palestinian Living Room Dialogue and were...
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