1. Graphic Design Artists
   Design very cool backgrounds and borders for the intense content of writing passages in nonviolence, which will then be inscribed into large panels of glass in our sculptural environments. Must have great facility in both Adobe PhotoShop and Adobe Illustrator.
2. Reading and Research on Nonviolence and Peace
   While working in our beautiful, colorful, happy office environment, uncover information relevant to Spaces For Peace goal of creating a culture of peace by reading texts on civil rights history, peace, nonviolence and related areas. Assemble excerpts and quotes, which will educate the public to these areas of knowledge. We also welcome small groups, class groups and families to work on this project together. Some reading can be done away from the office, while other reading/research must be done in our office with texts that cannot leave our premises. (See more research volunteer positions below under "Research On Your Own or Lead Brainstorming Groups").
3. Contract Law
   Draw up contracts, which will facilitate our collaborations with architects, engineers, artists and fabricators.
4. Grant Writers
   Much of the writing has been formulated!  Experienced grant writers are needed to update our Foundations database, and to submit grants.  Must have an excellent grant writing experience and a proven track record of having won grants.
5. Accounting and Bookkeeping
   Our books are set up!  Assist us in creating reports and entering bills!
6. Apple computer techie for Peace
   Understanding and experience with networking computers, installing software, troubleshooting Apple system problems. Need not be licensed. Must be familiar with G5 and G4. Please submit personal references.
7. Bookkeeping to help make a peaceful world!
   Our Quickbooks are set up!  While working in our beautiful, colorful, happy office environment, please assist us in entering accounts payables into our Quickbooks system. Bookkeeping experience and a reference required!!
8. Interesting office and research work relating to art and peace!
   Build an international mailing list of artists, peace activists, or authors. Or, compose personalized letters (based on our template letter) to authors and artists. Must have basic experience with Microsoft Excel or be a moderately fast typist. Flexible hours, comfortable sunny ambiance. There are no training requirements.
9. Do you love to coordinate groups and get a discussion going? Lead small brainstorming groups
   Lead small brainstorming groups on Nonviolence, Peace, Youth Culture, Environment and Sustainable Living, Domestic Violence, Racism, or History of Peace, Economic Prosperity and Peace.
   Coordinate with organizations doing service work in these fields and conduct a discussion that will generate the topics of greatest concern identifying how experts in each of these respective fields are proposing to solve these problems. In conducting these sessions, inquire what kind of information will help communities move ahead in normalizing a culture of peace relating to the above mentioned topic areas.
   Three or four preparation meetings are required: 1.) Intro to Spaces For Peace, 2.) Intro to Nonviolence, 3.) Plan group sessions, 4.) Documentation of results.
10. Web Marketing Explorations
    While working in our beautiful, colorful, happy office environment, explore the web for marketing opportunities for organizations. For example, "My Space." Learn how to feature an organization such as our on the website or portal. Unlike much of our volunteer opportunities, this exploration may be done in part from your home.
11. Develop Contemporary Artist Data Base
    While working in our beautiful, colorful, happy office environment, e x p a n d your knowledge of contemporary art and artists (sculptors, painters, digital media, photographers, etc.) from our region and from around the world. We have files of artists who address in their work peace, nonviolence, the social construction of race, environmental sustainability, domestic violence, and other related social issues. Creating the database will involve not only entering names and contact info we have gathered for these artists, but also entering descriptions and images of their work, so there is much for you to learn about art over the last several decades. If you are deeply involved in the visual arts, you may as well be able to contribute your personal knowledge and make recommendations of artists to add. The database will serve as a resource when the Spaces For Peace art committee selects artists to be invited for inclusion into a Spaces For Peace site we are building somewhere in the world. Some knowledge of contemporary art and artists is very helpful, but not required. Knowledge of File Maker Pro or another software, which allows for inclusion of pictures is helpful but not required. Knowledge of Adobe Photoshop also very helpful.
12. Comfortable office work - help with mail list
    We have a beautiful, colorful, happy, office (with air conditioning) where you can help us update the mail list. We think this will take approximately 25 hours or less, which can be spread over a few weeks time. A basic working knowledge of Microsoft Excel is helpful. Basic computer familiarity, good typing skills, good spelling ability ARE required.
13. Philanthropy Experts
    Advise Spaces For Peace on its strategic plan and connect us to high net-worth individuals so that we may all move the Spaces For Peace mission forward together.
14. Design artisan and manufactured products!
    Graphic designer, industrial designers, artists: design aesthetic, innovative, and green products! Build your design portfolio! And, help Spaces For Peace build awareness! This volunteer position requires researching materials, sketching prototypes, possibly creating a model and identifying potential manufacturers. Project research requires experience in internet research, making phone calls, overseeing the development of a product. Most products would be sold via our website and possibly at retail outlets. We do guide you along the process, but experience in the field of design required. Design students welcome.

Research on your own

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Lead small brainstorming groups

1. Nonviolence Activists
   Have you been trained and certified in nonviolence? You may on your own initiative, or by forming a group of like-minded individuals, formulate the writings (quotes and passages) to be inscribed into our educational Spaces For Peace sites, which will inform the public of the power of nonviolence.
2. Peace Activists
   You may on your own initiative, or by forming a group of like-minded individuals, formulate the peace writings (quotes and passages) to be inscribed into our educational Spaces For Peace sites which will inform the public of the myriad of ways toward living peaceably.
3. Diversity Activists
   Uncover and assemble writings by the most inspiring and well-informed authors so that Spaces For Peace may inscribe such writings into our educational Spaces For Peace sites. You may on your own iniative, or by forming a group of like-minded individuals (students, friends, colleagues) contribute to the formulation of the most transformational writings (from theatre, poetry history, etc.) for expanding our consciousness and historical knowledge about the invented social constructions of race, the value of inclusion, and the various forms of advantage.
4. Art Curators
   Renaissance through Contemporary Art curators are sought to formulate a library of visual artworks relating to peace, nonviolence and social constructions of race from which Spaces For Peace will select to create its educational environments, which are like mini-museums in the public realm.
5. Domestic Violence Activists
   You may on your own initiative, or by forming a group of like-minded individuals (students, friends, colleagues), uncover and assemble writings to be inscribed into our educational Spaces For Peace sites. Contribute to the formulation of the most transformational writings on domestic violence!
6. Psychologists and Sociologists
   Uncover and assemble writings to be inscribed into our educational Spaces For Peace sites. Assist Spaces For Peace in culling from centuries of great research the passages, which give humankind, and each and everyone of us, to trust in the possibility for human behavioral change. Form a group of like-minded individuals to assist in formulating the most influential writings around the human potential and psychological ability of humans to expand their universe.
7. Food Security and Hunger Activists
   Uncover and assemble writings to be inscribed into our educational Spaces For Peace sites. Are you a grad student hunger/poverty/food security activist? Form a group of like-minded individuals to assist in formulating the writings in the areas of food security, which will assist the public in understanding the connections between food security and economic prosperity.
8. Environmental Activists
   Uncover and assemble the writings to be inscribed into our educational Spaces For Peace sites. Form a group of like-minded individuals to assist in formulating the writings on sustainability and the environment, which will galvanize the general public into becoming environmentally minded!
9. Democracy activists
   Uncover and assemble the writings to be inscribed into our educational Spaces For Peace sites. Form a group of like-minded individuals to assist in formulating the writings on democracy and economic prosperity, which will remind us of the value of democracy!
10. Spiritual Peace Activists
    On your own or by forming a group of like-minded individuals, formulate the peace writings (quotes and passages) to be inscribed into our educational Spaces For Peace sites which will spiritually inspire to the myriad of ways toward living peaceably, visitors to those Spaces For Peace sites which are located on the grounds of religious institutions.