Idealist
Find volunteer opportunities, nonprofit jobs, and social-impact opportunities worldwide.
Idealist is a platform connecting individuals with volunteer opportunities, nonprofit jobs, and social-impact work around the world. Operating for over 30 years and merged with VolunteerMatch in 2025, it hosts a large database of opportunities posted by hundreds of thousands of organizations. It also offers an open API for businesses, government agencies, and platforms to integrate volunteering listings into their own products.
Users browse or post jobs and volunteer opportunities on the platform, while organizations and developers can integrate the database via an open API.
Individuals seeking volunteer or nonprofit career opportunities, and organizations or platforms looking to integrate volunteering data
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- freemium
- Company
- Idealist
- Launched
- 1995
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