Mark Horoszowski, founder of the Seattle-based organization MovingWorlds, would be the first to say there is a right and wrong way to volunteer. That’s part of why he and his team coined the term “experteering” — to capture their alternative to the growing voluntourism industry.
MovingWorlds connects global social impact organizations with professionals who want to volunteer only once these local groups identify gaps that specialized skills can fill.
“This old mindset of volunteering has the same, outdated logic of global development,” Horoszowski said. “But this new movement around experteering represents the same evolution the global development industry is embracing: empowering local change, and recognizing opportunities for shared value in the process.”