Are you a nonprofit organization?

Yes. We’re a 501(c)(3) organization, registered in the State of New York since 1995.

What will my donation help support?

Every day, Idealist helps connect 70,000 people with 95,000 organizations around the world, in English, Spanish, and French. In addition to our work online, every year we also organize a series of events across North America, including 10 Nonprofit Career Fairs, 20 Graduate School Fairs, and 5 Global Volunteering Fairs.

To make all this happen, and to provide the best possible service to our users, our team works to:

• Review every new organization that joins Idealist to try to ensure the highest possible quality in our content and listings.
• Reply to every call and email we get (tens of thousands every year).
• Maintain the current Idealist.org and make sure it runs smoothly (we do all our programming, design, and hosting ourselves).
• Organize, promote, and staff all the events mentioned above (the average fair brings together 1,000 people with 100 organizations or universities).
• Write and publish new resources to help our members, such as the Idealist Guides to Nonprofit Careers and the International Volunteerism Resource Center
• Build a totally new Idealist.org that will be launched later this year.

All this is free for everyone, with two narrow exceptions: organizations in the United States pay a small $60 fee to post their jobs on Idealist, and organizations and universities pay a fee to get a table at our fairs.

How can I help spread the word about this campaign?

Thanks! In the next few days we want to try to reach everyone who has ever benefitted from Idealist. It would be great if after making a donation you could tell your friends - by email, or on Facebook, Twitter or any other social network - that you did this, and that if Idealist has helped them over the years they should come to http://www.idealist.org/donate and pitch in.

If I make a donation, how do I get my receipt?

If you make a donation using a credit card or Paypal, you will receive an email receipt which you may use for claiming your tax deduction. If you make a donation by check, we will send a recognition letter for your records and tax purposes.

What is your privacy policy?

We will never share your name or any contact information with anyone outside our organization.

How can I contact Idealist?

For general questions about Idealist, click here

For questions about donating, please email Lorene at idealist.org.