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The Story of iVolunteer: A Boulder Newbie’s Perspective

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

(or–What the Hell am I Doing Here?… Seriously.) 

Finding our Mantra

Imagine you’ve just arrived in Boulder. Imagine you’re me, and you’ve just arrived here from (dare I admit it so early on?)– uh yeah, Dallas. You’re loving the mountains, the air (if there were just more of it, please), the coffee shops. And then you kinda luck into hanging with the coolest group of smart, driven, passionate, confident, community-oriented people this town has to offer. Pretty sweet life, huh? 

Oh yeah, except… ahem. You’re unemployed. In this economy. 

The suck-fest news is that you’ve got no income. The good-fest news is that you’ve finally got at least part of the substance to craft an answer to the ever-so-popular-and-not-at-all-annoying “So what do you do?” question. And the “what they do” gig at iVolunteer has all kinds of potential to effect change in how volunteering happens in local communities all over the United States.

Last Tuesday, an impressive group of folks came together at the Van Heyst Group here in Boulder in answer to the call for help with the iVolunteer endeavor. The group split into the geeks and the non-geeks and got to work. Like Obama said in his inaugural speech, “For everywhere we look, there is work to be done.” And damn straight if everyone didn’t get right to it. The non-geeks started knocking around ideas– communications, writing, brainstorming, wondering what the geeks were doing… All great stuff to be part of. 

Although this Boulder newbie may not know in which direction the winds of vocation may blow or what I’m going to be when I grow up, what is for sure is that there is power in surrounding myself with people I want to be like. Regardless, when this caliber of folks comes together to make profound, positive change happen in the world, I want to be part of it.

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