Affordable Water Testing Resources IDEAS Competition Project, 2004

Here, we've noted some of the ways that you can get involved and help ensure the continued success of our projects and activities.

If you'd like to learn more about any of these opportunities to help out, please contact us at idn-contact@mit.edu

Share your experience and expertise
Students can become resources and collaborators for each other. Alumni experiences in the field can transform and enrich student understanding. Staff and faculty can share their connections and strategies.

Contribute financially
To grow in their understanding and international development experience, students usually need to go abroad. However, funds for those projects are limited, and contributions are always welcome.

Tell us
Tell us about possible projects and opportunities! If you know of an international development need that you think MIT staff or students can help to address, please drop us a note. Many MIT students are involved in projects in developing regions, and many more are seeking projects that enable them to apply their knowledge and skills to help people in communities worldwide;

Explore employment opportunities
In the how to get involved page, you will find a long list of organizations that we know about. The majority are based here at MIT, although several are NGOs or other non-profits with offices in the Boston area. We hope you will help us to add to this list for everyone's benefit. Explore and let us know what you find! idn-contact@mit.edu

Sometimes, to get started, solid connections to international development are all it takes; sometimes it's remembering good resources so familiar that they're easy to overlook. For example, the MIT Careers Office has some interesting possibilities and advice, as do the MIT Public Service Center and the MIT Alumni Association. Other non-MIT Web sites also have useful ideas and resources, such as:

http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/jobs/
http://www.developmentex.com/index.asp
http://www.ashoka.com/involved/internships.cfm
http://www.idealist.org

Ask for more information
The MIT Public Service Center has some resources available for supporting international development. If you have an idea, please don't hesitate to come in and talk it over with one of the staff, call x3-0742 or email psc@mit.edu. If they can't help, they may be able to suggest someone who can.