Social Networks
These websites are social centers for like-minded people who care about our world. Make friends, find out about exciting projects, learn new stuff, watch cool videos.... all focussed on building a better place for us all to live.
Care2
The premise of Care2 is simple: One person can make a difference. Whether you’re passionate about green living, health, human rights or protecting the environment, Care2 puts the tools for change in your hands. Over 7 million wonderful people discover, share and take action on Care2 and Care2's The Petition Site. It's the largest online community of people passionate about making a difference. 
Cosmic Fantasia
Cosmic Fantasia is different. We look at the world and cosmos around us and see so much beauty, love and inspiration. But unfortunately for us all, the sacred balance has been lost with hate and greed taking hold. We are inspired to do our little part in bringing back the sacred balance and creating a better and more equitable world for All. But so do many others, why is Cosmic Fantasia different?... We strive for our content and everything else on Cosmic Fantasia to be for the betterment of human kind and every other particle within the Universe/s. 
Zaadz
We're gonna change the world. Our math goes like this: you be the change + you follow your bliss + you give your greatest strengths to the world moment to moment to moment + we do everything in our power to help you succeed + you inspire and empower everyone you know to do the same + we team up with millions like us = we just affected billions = we (together) changed the world. www.zaadz.com
Wiser Earth
WiserEarth serves the people who are transforming the world. It is a community-editable international directory and networking forum that maps out and connects the largest movement in the world – the hundreds of thousands of organizations within civil society that address social justice, poverty, and the environment. 
Change
Change.org aims to transform social activism by serving as the central platform that connects likeminded people, whatever their interests, and enables them to exchange information, share ideas, and collectively act to address the issues they care about.
Adventures
Wouldn't you love to take a little time off... but instead of spending your time on a lounge chair, spend it making friends in a culture different than your own, and helping better their lives while you're there? With projects going on everywhere, and all of them needing help – you can now travel in an entirely different way. Join a team in any of the needy areas of the world and meet warm, friendly people, grateful for your help.
Tour the U.S. as a Bike-Aid Volunteer
You'll learn firsthand about the country you're visiting, their customs and people, their language, their lives. Even close to home there are ghettos, reservations, the tornado hit, the flood damaged....you'll make new friends, help somebody in need, and be well remembered and appreciated. Coming home, you may not have slept as much, but you'll be refreshed, energized and inspired, and you'll bring a new perspective to the life you were living.
Also, check out our Festivals & Events page –all events happen because of the contributions of many volunteers. Volunteering is a fantastic way to really get behind the scenes, meet the movers and shakers first hand and attend the event as well.
Amigos de las Americas
"AMIGOS trains young people to meet the challenges of planning and conducting community service programs with confidence and cultural sensitivity, both in their home communities and in Latin America, including Bolivia, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Paraguay, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Brazil, Honduras. Teams of 2-3 volunteers live and work in rural Latin American communities for up to 8 weeks. Working in collaboration with development agencies and community members, volunteers have leadership roles in carrying out health, education, and environmental programs." www.amigoslink.org
Bike Aid
Are you looking for a way to help create a more peaceful and just world? Are you looking for an opportunity to travel across the United States using a form of environmentally sustainable transportation? Are you looking to make yourself more politically aware and educated about the issues that are affecting people and communities in this country and throughout the world? Are you looking to dialogue with people across the country about ways to create positive change? Are you looking for a life-changing summer experience?
This summer, Bike-Aid's 20th Annual cross-country ride will traverse 3800 miles and stay with 60 different communities on a route from San Francisco to Washington DC. This will be the 4th year of Bike-Aid's two-week California ride from San Francisco to the Mexico border. And we are pleased to announce two new Bike-Aid rides one within California - a customized San Francisco Bay Area environmental justice and food security ride and the other in Hawai`i - a 10 day ride focused on Sustainability. www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bikeaid/index.html
Cross-Cultural Solutions
Cross-Cultural Solutions is an independent, non-religious 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that employs volunteer humanitarian action to empower local communities, foster cultural sensitivity and understanding, and contribute grassroots solutions to global challenges.
We work in partnership with over 100 nonprofit humanitarian organizations around the world, including both large, international NGOs and dynamic grassroots organizations in the countries where we send volunteers. Choose from nearly 200 start dates, lengths of stay of 1-12 weeks, and 10 countries: Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Peru, Russia, Tanzania and Thailand. www.crossculturalsolutions.org
Earthwatch Institute
"The Earthwatch Institute promotes sustainable conservation of our natural resources and cultural heritage by creating partnerships between scientists, educators and the general public. Earthwatch allows members of the public, aged 16 through adult, to join University research expeditions worldwide, helping scientists on field projects for 1-3 weeks in 51 countries and 23 states, year-round. No special skills required." www.earthwatch.org
Foundation for Sustainable Development 
"The Foundation For Sustainable Development provides community development internships in Nicaragua, Bolivia, Peru, South Africa, Tanzania. We work with local non-profit organizations that work in grassroots community development. We provide the opportunity for complete Spanish immersion, practical hands-on experience working with a non-profit in community development, and a cultural experience living with a host family." www.fsdinternational.org
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Global Service Corps
Global Service Corps provides short and long term service learning opportunities in Tanzania, and Thailand in the fields of health, environment and education, including HIV/AIDS education. www.globalservicecorps.org
Volunteer in Africa
We recruit participants from worldwide and place them on our own projects and on that of other organizations in Ghana. We also organize 3-day and 9-day group tours for our volunteers, interns and visitors. Participants volunteer at worthwhile and meaningful projects that include orphanage projects, street children projects, HIV/AIDS education projects, schools, hospitals and clinics, tree planting projects, churches, computer training projects etc. Participants stay with carefully selected, respectable and dedicated host families. Volunteers can participate in most of the programs anytime of year for short and medium term bases. Volunteers mostly work alongside local workers and professionals. Special skills, professional qualifications or previous experience are not required of volunteers in most of the programs. www.volunteeringinafrica.org
Global Volunteers
"Global Volunteers Has mobilized more than 13,000 volunteers on human and economic development projects worldwide; assisting people of diverse cultures and promoting cross-cultural understanding. Global Volunteers sends teams of volunteers to live and work with local people in North America, Latin American, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia and the Pacific, and Africa." www.globalvolunteers.org
GrowFood.org
"Connecting students, activists and adventurers with organic farms and sustainability projects throughout the USA and Latin America. One host in Argentina offers spanish language instruction at their ecovillage. Another, in Costa Rica, teaches volunteers how to make chocolate from their 800 cacao trees! Many of our 1000 host farms and organizations trade training, room and board for labor." www.growfood.org
Hospitality Club
Our aim is to bring people together - hosts and guests, travelers and locals. Hospitality Club members around the world help each other when they are traveling - be it with a roof for the night or a guided tour through town. Joining is free, takes just a minute and everyone is welcome. Members can look at each other's profiles, send messages and post comments about their experience on the website. The club is supported by volunteers who believe in one idea: by bringing travelers in touch with people in the place they visit, and by giving "locals" a chance to meet people from other cultures we can increase intercultural understanding and make peace on this planet a little bit more likely. www.hospitalityclub.org/hospitalityclub/aiesec.htm
Servas
Servas is a worldwide cooperative cultural exchange network established in 1948 and composed of member hosts and travelers working together to foster peace, goodwill and mutual respect. Servas homestays provide insight into the political, cultural and social realities that face people of diverse cultures and backgrounds around the world. Both the traveler and the host are necessary for this homestay to occur! You can choose to be a traveler, a host or both. As a traveler more than 14,000 homes in over 130 countries around the world are open to you. As a host you can travel without even leaving your own home. Our members believe that by meeting new people in our own homes and sharing our everyday lives with them, individuals have the power to build the necessary foundations for world peace. www.usservas.org/about.html#what
Volunteers For Peace
"Volunteers for Peace offers over 2200 affordable voluntary service projects in more than 80 countries. In 2001, VFP placed over 1300 volunteers in workcamp programs in the USA and abroad. These programs are an opportunity, in 2-26 weeks, to complete meaningful community service while living and interacting in an international environment." www.vfp.org
Visions in Action
"Visions in Action places Volunteers for 24-52 weeks, usually 52, with indigenous nonprofit development organizations in Burkina Faso, Mexico, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe. Volunteers participate in a one month orientation, including language training, homestays, and guest speakers followed by a work placement with a nonprofit organization in their field of interest. Sectors include human rights, journalism, community development, environment, health care, social work and microenterprise." www.visionsinaction.org
WWOOF
An amazing diversity of organic farms, gardens and businesses have opportunities – from a few days to a few months – where you can work in exchange for accommodation, organic home-cooked meals, learning and fun. Locations across Canada, the U.S. and around the world. Working/learning opportunities vary from organic farming & gardening, to cooking, carpentry, business admin, creative work, childcare, solar power, sustainable living skills. Everything is negotiated between you and the host. From solar-powered to strawbale homes, from herbs to orchards to rare-breed cattle, from swimming holes to gourmet cooking – the variety is endless. Year-round; all ages. www.wwoof.ca
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