VolunteerMatch

Grassroots.org is a nonprofit organization that is changing the world by making free technology tools available to nonprofit organizations everywhere in the world. We are currently recruiting volunteer web designers to work with our 1000+ nonprofit clients.

You will be responsible for designing and implementing a nonprofit website project from start to finish, adhering to the latest standards and surpassing accessibility and usability compliance requirements. We'll be around to help when you need it, whether it's figuring out that CSS bug or giving you advice on planning a project.

Our volunteers develop great websites and build up solid portfolios! We're also rapidly expanding our technology offerings, so designers / developers with an interest in CMS or related technologies should get in touch.

• Experience designing and developing web pages and web sites. These could be college projects, real world projects, or anything in-between. You don't need a giant portfolio (we know a lot of you are looking to build up a portfolio with us), but some familiarity with web design is expected. We can support you, but we can't train you from scratch.
• Communication skills. You have to be able to talk to a non-tech nonprofit client and understand their organization and their work, and build a product that represents them on the web. This is much harder than the geek stuff. English majors welcome. (No joke; the guy writing this was an English major). We'll help.
• Experience with the standard technologies of the trade...XHTML, CSS, and perhaps a dash of Javascript. We prefer clean CSS for layout over tables. Again, you don't need to be a guru, but we expect a basic understanding of the languages and underlying technologies involved.
• The ability to work independantly. This is a telecommuting internship, so this is a given.
• Knowledge of accessibility issues, or a willingness to learn (quickly...it's not that hard).
  
• Knowledge of web standards, or a willingness to learn. We write valid, standards-compliant code for our clients.
  
• Access to your own design and coding tools. We write code in Kate through Konqueror, Smultron on OSX, and Notepad ++ on Windows, to name a few. If you're a Dreamweaver jockey, your code's probably bloated, but that's ok! As long as you have access to your preferred set of tools, we're flexible on how you get the job done.