WiserEarth provides the tools and a platform for non-profit organizations, funders, social entrepreneurs, students, organizers, academics, activists, scientists, and citizens to find each other, make connections, build alliances and share resources.

What Does WiserEarth Do?

WiserEarth links organizations and people in new ways:

* Its' comprehensive taxonomy (described on the site as Areas of Focus) combined with its database of over 100,000 organizations based in 243 countries, territories and sovereign islands, makes it the largest, freely accessible, international directory of non-governmental organizations.

* Just like Wikipedia, WiserEarth invites its users to create and edit content on the site.

* It is free of advertisements and commercial entities.

* WiserEarth encourages its users to create personal profiles so that they can build visibility for their work, create connections and contribute to the conversations taking place on the site.

* WiserEarth provides groups for networks that want a unique space to gather, share resources, collaborate on projects, and grow their network

* WiserEarth provides grassroots groups that do not have a web presence with a web page driving visibility to help their work.

* WiserEarth provides funders a comprehensive landscape of organizations engaged in specific program activities.

* WiserEarth provides geographic maps to locate individual organizations, or any collection of organizations, from street to continent level.

* WiserEarth offers free postings for the recruitment of staff, volunteers, and interns and will (in the future) offer a marketplace to share surplus resources and materials.

* Academics, students, politicians, and the media can better visualize the extent and comprehensiveness of global civil society.

Why is WiserEarth Needed?

The more than one million organizations and the one hundred million individuals who actively work towards ecological sustainability, economic justice, human rights, and political accountability work on issues that are systemically interconnected and intertwined. However, their effectiveness to prevent harm and institute positive change is undermined by the lack of a collective awareness, duplicative efforts, and poor connectivity. A widely diverse network of organizations is the best defense against injustice, but to be effective, it needs to be connected and intelligent. What is missing is a map and directory of this network that includes the resources for communication and cooperation, created and managed by the community; in essence, an infrastructure through which to coordinate our efforts.

WiserEarth provides this movement a way to see itself and become connected.