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Catchafire and Idealist: pro-bono skills for nonprofits

Give design, translation, data or legal skills to nonprofits: Catchafire matches US-based projects; Idealist lists volunteer roles worldwide.

Organisation
Catchafire / Idealist
Duration
5 to 40 hours per project
Licence
Nonprofit platforms
Checked on
23 September 2026

Catchafire lets professionals take on scoped projects (a logo, a database clean-up, a grant edit) for nonprofits, free to the charity; Idealist, which merged with VolunteerMatch in 2025, lists nonprofit jobs and volunteer roles globally. Both are how a plastics non-governmental organisation (NGO) with two staff gets a translator or a data analyst.

Honest caveat: catchafire.org blocked our automated check on 23 September 2026 but is confirmed live through its help centre; it is US-focused.

How to start: catchafire.org/ and idealist.org/

Sources last verified 23 September 2026. Page updated 23 September 2026. How we check sources