We`re a nonprofit organization called Action Without Borders based in New York. Idealist.org, the website you`re exploring right now, is one of the tools that we use to carry out our mission, which is: To help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives in a healthy environment.
We try to help people find the resources and support they need to help themselves and their communities. Over 45,000 nonprofit organizations from around the world use Idealist to list information about the work they do. This information includes their mission and how to contact them, volunteer opportunities, internships, resources, and services that they provide.
A children`s museum in Vancouver, Canada needs a website but cannot afford to pay a web designer to design one. They post a volunteer opportunity on Idealist for a Web designer. A week later, Anna, a high school student who likes to design websites, logs onto Idealist to look for a volunteer opportunity. While searching the Idealist volunteer database, she comes across the museum`s opportunity. She contacts them and gets to work designing their website. Several community members in a neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya, want to start an organization to help the children who live on the streets of their city. One of the first things they decide to do is research other organizations around the world working with street kids. Using Idealist, they find several such organizations. They contact them and soon have advice, resources, and suggestions that will help them get started.