"Lend a Helping Hand"

Since launching our public beta a few months ago, the Turbo140 Team has been excited to see all the ways in which people are using our platform. In an effort to be applicable on both a global and local scale, we have been adding new and improved features and functionality to our platform. The latest feature is a category of gigs for "volunteering", and we are really excited to have the Press Institute, an international nonprofit organization, join our "Lend a Helping Hand" program. The Press Institute is an international nonprofit organization that brings responsible, investigative journalism to communities throughout the world. As with most non-profits, the Press Institute is constantly in need of donations, grants and volunteers to make their mission a reality. If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area and area and are interested in volunteering, you can send an email to cristi@globalpressinstitute.org.

Regardless of where you live, if you have a spare 20 seconds, check out the Press Institute's latest volunteer gig. Also be sure to check back with Turbo140.com for volunteer and fundraising events coming to your area, and you can also keep track of the latest news coming in from Press Institute reporters in 22 nations on The Press Institute Newswire, http://www.globalpressinstitute.org/landing/global-news. (Donations too, are also more than welcome and 100% tax deductible.)

We're also are excited to see universities start to use our new volunteer feature, with Thunderbird School of Global Management using our platform to source volunteers for one of their amazing global galas. We've also begun talks with organizations helping out with the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as a number of local non-profits around the U.S. If you're part of a non-profit or university, please drop us a line at sprocket@turbo140.com and let us know how we can help your organization. Our mission at Turbo140 is to help people and organizations find gigs and source available labor. A natural extension of that is helping to organize the often tedious process of finding volunteers. Let us know how we can help. From rocking the social media scene to rolling up our sleeves, we're ready to lend a helping hand. Are you?