What is the Organization/Project Vetting Process?

 

We work with a global partnership network to identify locally-led impact projects — and the groups, teams, and organizations behind them — who can benefit from pro-bono support. These partners, many shown here, evangelize our service to these changemakers. We equip these partners with readiness resources, and often even manage orientation and training webinars to welcome their organizations into our network.

 

To apply to join the MovingWorlds platform, organizations must first create an organization profile. We screen these organizations on a variety of factors to first ensure they are legal and legitimate organizations, and second to ensure that they have sustainable impact missions (it's where we also check to make sure they are not part of any watchdog lists). We also screen for factors related to organizational capacity at this stage.

 

When organizations are approved to join our platform, they can then submit their most pressing needs following our project posting and scoping process. If organizations need additional help, we also manage a "skills gap assessment" to help organizations focus on their biggest needs, and receive guidance as to which projects will be the most impactful. This article in SSIR helps explain this if you want to learn more. In addition to vetting organizations, we also vet each and every project that is submitted to ensure it is skills-based, sustainable, has clear deliverables, and includes an element of skills transfer to build long-term organizational capacity.

 

#4: Project scope and alignment with you