Create Change. Be Changed.
We build leaders and doers behind grassroots, world-changing ideas.
Empower Your Organization
We help social enterprises build skills & capacity to make a bigger impact.
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Our Programs Guide You
Every step of the way.
We've built award-winning programs that help professionals make a real impact with their skills, while growing as world-positive leaders in the process. Join one of our programs to build your skills, expand your network, and make a real impact.
This is how you’ll move worlds:
Set Your Ambition and Apply
Create a profile and apply to your preferred program
Get Trained on Best Practices
Receive on-demand training to prepare for an impactful, cross-cultural experience. Join Impact Teams or the Institute Global Fellowship for extra training on human-centered design, social entrepreneurship, impact investing, and other leading social-impact frameworks.
Find the Best Project and Plan Your Trip
Get guidance on how to best apply your skills overseas folloring our Experteering matching and planning process.
Get Peer-based Support
Join a community of like-minded changemakers from around the world. MovingWorlds Institute Fellows get the chance to meet in person at a live kick-off weekend.
Go Experteering
Put your skills into practice on an immersive Experteering project — knowing that the MovingWorlds community is supporting you every step of the way
Reintegrate & Reflect
Be guided and coached through a personal debrief process to reflect on your experience and publish your own capstone.
Share Your Impact
Contribute your story, share your failures and successes, and inspire others towards purpose.
Stay Connected with Our Global Network
Connect with like-minded professionals to expand your network once you return home.
Apply to the Program that Best Fits You
And join us in moving worlds.
Get matched to an Experteering project to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals. Receive extra support, training, and community support to build confidence and plan the trip of a lifetime as a member of our global community.
Create change. Be changed.
Our professional development program for those looking to grow as leaders, and then return to their organization to make it more innovative and socially responsible. Join a virtual cohort of impact makers, and then go Experteering on your own.
Develop as a more innovative leader. Make your organization better.
Our career change program for those looking to learn more about social enterprise, human- centered design, and career opportunities in the social impact sector. Join an in-person training, stay connected as a virtual cohort for the 6 months of Fellowship, and go Experteering to build your experience.
Grow as a purpose-driven leader. Align your career for social impact.
Meet a Few of Our Experteers
These skilled volunteers have made a lasting change in communities around the world
Marketing Strategy in Tanzania
Heather Watkins
“Heather put her marketing skills to use to impact education across east Africa”
View Heather's storyMarketing and Communications in India
Dorene & Troy
“Dorene & Troy put their storytelling, video-making, and marketing skills to the test to support animal care and sustainable local enterprises in India.”
Read their StoryAccounting in Ghana
Michael Robinson
“Michael helped a nonprofit nursing school improve its financial reporting and business planning in Ghana”
View Michael's storyProgram Management Skills in Zambia
Ankita Patel
“Ankita used her financial and legal skills to empower women in Zambia”
Read Ankita's StoryFind Projects You Will Love
Our global network helps us find you inspiring projects where you'll make a real impact along your learning journey.
We work with impact investors, foundations, social enterprise hubs, and social business accelerators to find you high-impact projects around the world where you can volunteer your skills in exchange for a free place to live. Some even provide meal and travel stipends for the right expertise.
