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Calling all charitable-minded Squids! This is your opportunity to become a key volunteer member of our philanthropy team as an official Squidoo-Gooder.

Every day we’re surprised and delighted by your smart, big-hearted ideas, lenses, and groups. So delighted, in fact, that we want to hire a few of you to spearhead Squidoo’s grassroots philanthropy initiatives.

It’s unpaid (sorry!), but we will donate $100 per month to the nonprofit of your choice, and we’ll make you up your own Squidoo-Gooder badge. Plus, we think that the reward of doing good for the world is nothing to sniff at, either.

Here’s what the volunteer position will entail:

- Get the word out about Squidoo’s free fundraising and awareness-raising platform on message boards, blogs, and forums
- Choose a cause you’re passionate about, and keep us up-to-date on current goings-on
- Build lenses and groups with a nonprofit or philanthropic spin
- Come up with great ideas to help us spread our nonprofit story and increase the number of lenses donating their royalties to charity

Here’s what we’ll ask of you:

- Give 3-5 hours a week
- Be articulate, reliable, creative, and dedicated
- Be ready to raise money, improve lives, and do good by January 11!

Are you up for the challenge? Send me an email by Friday, January 5, explaining what you’d bring to the task, plus two ideas on how you’d get new audiences to submit lenses to benefit charity. jill@squidoo.com

We’ll make a final decision on the team by Wednesday, January 10, and Squidoo-Gooders will have their first assignment by Thursday, January 11.

Feel free to email me with any questions. And thanks again for everything you’ve done so far to support Squidoo’s charitable efforts.