Contact and Information Fair for NGOs online

“Action Without Borders” has updated its NGO-Service “Idealist”. It
now enables individuals and organizations everywhere to tell Idealist
exactly what information they want, and then receive this information
automatically, by email, according to their needs, interests and
location. This new system is now ready. Depending on whether you are
an individual or an organization (or both) here's what you can do with
it:

Individuals can:

1. Define what information you'd like to receive by email from among
the job openings, volunteer opportunities, internships, events and
resources posted in Idealist by organizations all over the world.

For example, you can choose to receive updates about job openings and
environmental events in New Zealand or New York, volunteer
opportunities in India, and human rights resources in Spanish, and
receive all this in no more than one personalized email per day.

2. Design the perfect volunteer opportunity for yourself by setting up
one or more Volunteer Profiles with your interests, skills and
schedule. These Profiles can then be searched by organizations in
Idealist.

3. Find people around the world who share your interests, whether to
collaborate on a project, or to exchange ideas and information.

Organizations can:

1. Post job openings, volunteer opportunities, events, internships and
resources in the knowledge that people around the world are
registering to receive them.

2. Find volunteers that want to work with you by looking through the
Volunteer Profiles created by individuals on the site (there are
already more than 200 there).

3. Encourage people in your staff to register for email updates about
new events and resources in your field.

How much does it cost?

Nothing. With one small exception, all of this is free for individuals
and organizations. The exception is that to help maintain Idealist,
organizations in the United States pay $40 to post job openings here
(volunteer opportunities, internships and everything else is free in
the US as well, and posting jobs is free in every other country.)

To start:

For the personal features, go to http://www.idealist.org and click on
the 'Individuals' link on the home page. Organizations should click
on the 'Organizations' link, also on the home page.

Action Without Borders is a nonprofit organization that promotes the
sharing of ideas, information and resources to help build a world
where all people can live free, dignified and productive lives.
Idealist.org, a project of AWB, is a community of nonprofit and
volunteering resources on the Web, with information provided by 20,000
organizations in 152 countries, and
over two million page views per month.