First, here is what hasn’t changed: you can still use Idealist to
find and
post job openings, volunteer opportunities, events, and more, in English, Spanish, and French, and receive daily email alerts with new listings matching your interests and location.
And here is some of what’s new:
* Instead of separate logins and dashboards for individuals and organizations, we now have a single login and one Control Panel for everyone. Login or sign up, and you’ll see what we mean.
* Organizations can now archive their postings for future use.
* You can now post Personal, Volunteer, and Speaker Profiles, upload photos, and send messages to others on the site.
* The Email Alerts have been upgraded and you can now get alerts about new listings in multiple countries and in multiple languages with a single Idealist account.
* For every search you do on the site, you can now subscribe to a specific
RSS feed.
* In the Advanced Searches, you can now get results in multiple languages for a single search.
* Since one of our main goals is to help people connect face-to-face as well as online, we have added four new concepts to the site: Community Points, Affinity Groups, Outreach Teams, and Start-up Meetings. Check out
Imagine and
Connect for more details.
* We also have three new resource centers, for college and university
Students, for nonprofit
Human Resources professionals and for
Community Action.
* The
Spanish and
French versions of Idealist have been completely redone, and we have started
new sites in Chinese, Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, and Portuguese.
* Lastly, we completely overhauled our
About Us section, and added a photo gallery, a new Contact Us page that also acts as a site-map, a fully searchable Help Section, and much more.
Two features we had to remove for now (they will come back better and stronger) were the daily nonprofit news updates, and the old discussion board.
These are the main changes, but if you know Idealist you will also find many more. And again, if anything seems strange in the next few days, please bear with us and
let us know.
Thank you!
The Idealist.org team
Our team is HAPPY today
Hello! After more than a year of work, we pressed the button over the weekend, and this new site came to life. As you can see, the look of the site has changed, and we have dozens of new features (listed below).
Most importantly, this is the first time that Idealist truly expresses the vision that has driven us since the beginning, and we hope you will join us in realizing this dream.
This vision is simple: we want to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives; where any person who wants to help another can do so; and where no opportunities for action and collaboration are missed or wasted - and we want to do this with you. To see what we are proposing, and how you can participate, click on
Imagine.
Right now, this site is only a couple of days old, and as you explore it, you may find a typo, a bug, or just something that’s not clear. We did our best to find all of these before we launched, but Idealist is huge, our staff is small, and this week we’ll need your help (and patience) to make sure everything works smoothly. So - if you find anything that you think needs to be fixed, please
tell us about it (the more details the better). Thank you!
Here are two comments that made our day, and that summarize perfectly what we want to do here:
Maggie in Virginia
From Maggie in Virginia: “I am here because I hope to meet like minds, or unlike minds. I just hope to meet minds, really.”
And from Crystal in Amsterdam: “What a wonderful neighborhood... full of people who are interested in the good of... people. So glad to be a part. Hope to be increasingly more so.”
In the three weeks since we launched this new site, it’s been wonderful to read
similar comments from so many of you, and to get your detailed feedback on the site. Between now and the end of this month, we will continue making some changes based on your input, and then, in the first week of December, we will start inviting people all over the world to take part in this
new initiative, and to see what we can all do together.
In the meantime, have a good week!
