Opportunities: Volunteer
United Nations Volunteers - If you’re looking to take your online volunteering worldwide, this is the place to start. UNV connects you with organizations working for peace and development in need of skills like research, writing, art, and design. There are already over 12,000 volunteers from 187 countries lending their talents to organizations around the globe.
Catchafire - This volunteer search tool is exclusively for online volunteer projects. Each one has a timeline that can range anywhere from an hour to a few weeks. So whether you have an afternoon or several, you can help not-for-profit with tasks like writing thank you letters or editing photos.
DoSomething.org - Sign up for a volunteer, social change, or civic action campaign to make real-world impact on a cause you care about.
generationOn - generationOn inspires, equips and mobilizes millions of people to take action that is changing the world.
Human Rights Without Frontiers International - Human Rights Without Frontiers International (HRWF Int’l) is a non-profit association that seeks to shape European and international policy in ways that strengthen democracy, uphold the rule of law and protect human rights globally.
Opportunities: Online Learning
Free Courses Offered from Popular Paid Sites:
Khan Academy (Free Courses)
Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.
All lectures were recorded in the Yale College classroom and are available in video, audio, and text transcript formats
Registration is not required
No course credit, degree, or certificate is available through the Open Yale Courses website.
Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative
OLI provides dozens of college-level courses, and a platform that enables research and experimentation with any aspect of the learning experience.
Content provided by MIT and Harvard universities
Certificates offered for completing courses
Quality of courses is exactly the same for free or for paid (you just don’t get the certificate if you don’t pay)
Canvas Network's open, online courses, taught by experts and institutions worldwide.
Many free options
Alison’s vision and guiding principle is to empower billions of people around the world through free high quality knowledge and workplace skills training.
MIT OpenCourseWare is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
Learn from Stanford instructors and industry experts
OpenCulture’s List of Free Online Courses
Pacific Open Learning Healthnet
Academic Earth was launched on the premise that everyone deserves access to a world-class education. A collection of free online college courses from the world’s top universities.
Opportunities: Connect and Network
Networking can help you achieve your goals by connecting you with like-minded people and organizations. Many organizations may have goals that align with your own, and might provide you a starting point to organize with others locally, or virtually.
Interfaith Youth Core - IFYC is a national nonprofit that equips the next generation of citizens and professionals with the knowledge and skills needed for leadership in a religiously diverse world.
Explore KAICIID's Dialogue Knowledge Hub
Look through the Promising Practices database for guidelines and focuses on the concrete implementation of interreligious and intercultural dialogue practices around the world
Sustainable Development Goal Partnerships
Sustainable Development Goals Action Network
Connect Kindness - Connecting people with nonprofit organizations to inspire kindness.
Create the Good - Create the Good connects you with volunteer opportunities to share your life experiences, skills and passions in your community. Join others or recruit others to join your cause.
Volunteer Match - Making it easy for good people and good causes to connect. You can volunteer for an already existing cause, or post a listing recruiting volunteers for your cause.
Idealist - Idealist is a nonprofit organization based in New York. Working with others, in a spirit of generosity and mutual respect, we want to help build a world where all people can lead free and dignified lives. You can volunteer for an already existing cause, or post a listing recruiting volunteers for your cause.
Peace First - The Peace First Challenge helps young people (ages 13-25) create and lead projects that address injustice in their community through compassion, courage and collaborative leadership. The organization provides mini grants up to $250, digital tools, mentorship, and access to a global community of changemakers.
Global Exchange - A membership-based international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world.
Race Forward - A public policy institute advancing racial justice through research, advocacy and journalism
Grassroots International - Promotes global justice through partnerships with social change organizations and through grantmaking, education, and advocacy.
Global Rights - An international human rights advocacy group that partners with local activists to challenge injustice.
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) - An organization which includes people of various faiths who are committed to Quaker values of social justice, peace, and humanitarian service.
Human Rights Resource Center - An integral part of the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center and works to create and distribute Human Rights Education (HRE) resources via electronic and print media and train activists, professionals, and students as human rights educators.
The Action Network - The Action Network is an open platform that empowers individuals and groups to organize for progressive causes.
Living Room Conversations - Living Room Conversations are a simple way to connect across divides - politics, age, gender, race, nationality, and more.Getting at the heart of what we share in common with one another, these conversations have powerful, positive impacts across society – including a sense of respect, understanding, and even friendship in unexpected places!
Seeds of Peace - Seeds of Peace develops courageous leaders who work to create more just and inclusive societies.
Alliance for Peacebuilding - Alliance for Peacebuilding is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit, nonpartisan network of over 140 organizations working in 181 countries to end conflict, reduce violence and build sustainable peace.
Diversity Dialogue - Recognizing the rapid rise in intolerance in most parts of the world, it is imperative to teach young children about the need for diversity and inclusivity. Diversity Dialogue aims to actively engage students by educating them about hate speech, conflict and peace. Read their story here.
Hash.peace - Founded in 2015, hash.peace is a youth-led advocacy group committed to catalysing conversations and developing programs that contribute towards sustainable social harmony. hash.peace is dedicated to inter-ethnic and inter-belief engagements that help to combat problems in society.
Let's Talk Peace! Podcast - The 'Let's Talk Peace' Podcast is a platform that amplifies the voices of individuals that are changing the game. The purpose of this project is to foster radical empathy, creative problem solving, and critical thinking.
G20 Interfaith Forum - The G20 Interfaith Forum is a platform where a network of religiously linked institutions and initiatives discuss global agendas (primarily and including the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs). The Forum meets annually in the host country of and near the time of the G20 (Group of 20) Summit. You can read more about the Forum here. You can also find information on this year’s Forum here.
UNAOC - The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) was established in 2005, as the political initiative of Mr. Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General and co-sponsored by the Governments of Spain and Turkey. Since its inception, the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) has become a leading United Nations platform for intercultural dialogue, understanding and cooperation. It has connected governments, lawmakers, local authorities, civil society organizations, the media, and individuals devoted to promoting understanding across diverse communities.
Fetzer Institute - "At the Fetzer Institute, we believe in the possibility of a loving world: a world where we understand we are all part of one human family and know our lives have purpose."
Women’s Interfaith Network - WIN is a women's charity committed to building a better, more inclusive society through promoting friendship and embracing difference. WIN members form grass-root social groups, arranged by geographical area, that undertake a diverse range of activities.
United Religions Initiative - Global - URI unites to bridge differences between people of all beliefs, to create community, and to solve local and global challenges. URI’s network of grassroots groups works in over a hundred countries around the world, gathering groups of people from different cultures, faiths, and traditions to work side-by-side for a common cause.
Religions for Peace - Religions for Peace (RfP) is the largest worldwide alliance of religious communities. The global Religions for Peace network consists of close to 100 national member associations (referred to as “Interfaith Councils”) in almost as many countries, six regional interfaith committees, as well as the Global Women of Faith women’s network and a global interfaith youth network.
Ring for Peace (Religions for Peace)
Faith in Action - Faith in Action brings people of faith together to transform communities and fight for racial justice.
The Interfaith Rainforest Initiative - The Interfaith Rainforest Initiative brings the commitment, influence and moral authority of religions to efforts to protect the world’s rainforests and the indigenous peoples that serve as their guardians.
Intersections International - Intersections International is an organization dedicated to building systemic change that promotes justice, reconciliation and peace across lines of difference: religion, culture, class, race, ideology, national borders and other boundaries that divide humanity. Our programming covers a range of topics, including LGBT issues; values-based leadership; the transitioning of veterans back to civilian life; global peacemaking initiatives; and the role of the arts in change for social justice.
The Hague Peace Projects - The Hague Peace Projects is a Peace and Human Rights organization based in The Hague, ‘The International City of Peace and Justice’ since 2014. There are currently 110 peace projects in motion across 4 continents.
Greenfaith - Greenfaith is a worldwide, multi-faith climate and environmental movement. Read about their international network.
Interfaith Alliance for Safer Communities - The Interfaith Alliance for Safer Communities is a network of advocates from civil society and faith communities. Our goal is to empower faith leaders to work for the safety and security of our communities, tackling issues such as child sexual abuse, extremism and radicalization, and human trafficking.
Interfaith Online - Looking to join in on some casual conversations? This group hosts weekly meetings to talk about the intersection of faith and daily life.
Citizen Diplomacy International - Citizen Diplomacy International connects Philadelphia with leaders worldwide and promotes our city as a global hub of commerce and culture through Youth Exchanges, University Student Exchanges, Internships & Scholarships, and Professional Leadership Exchanges.
350.org - An international movement of ordinary people working to end the age of fossil fuels and build a world of community-led renewable energy for all.
