Hello World!

The Portal launched in April 2026. We're keeping that month as our birthday.

What we've built

If you run a small or mid-sized organisation in sustainable development, you know the tool stack problem. Slack for messaging. Notion for docs. LinkedIn for networking. Some grant database you pay a seat fee for. Another tool for notifications. Another one for your member directory. None of them talk to each other, none of them were built for your world, and collectively they're eating your budget in subscription traps designed for tech companies, not civil society.

ANW is our answer to that. One platform, built specifically for organisations and practitioners working in social and environmental development, with the everyday tools you actually need under one roof.

Here's what's on the platform today:

1. Member profiles for individuals and organisations, with structured fields for focus areas, thematic domains, regions, and skills

2. An opportunity board covering five types: funding calls, events, collaboration requests, services offered to civil society, and skills and expertise exchange

3. A matching engine that connects members based on profile data (no behavioural tracking, no black-box scoring, just what you told us)

4. Collaborative workspaces for coordinating work across teams, with Google Drive integration built in

5. 56 thematic spaces for communities within the network to organise around shared focus areas

6. An interactive member map (the Atlas) for geographic exploration of the network

7. In-app and email notifications, configurable per alert type with no all-or-nothing switches

8. API access tokens so you can connect external tools to your account on your terms

9. A daily discovery scanner that hunts for funding calls, collaboration opportunities, and events that never make it into the mainstream aggregators: five opportunity types, 55 rotating search queries, full page content fetched and classified before anything reaches the board

Over 1,000 members are already on it. No seat-based subscription traps.

What we're proud of

We don't run advertising. The platform runs on membership fees and grants. Your feed isn't a product.

Matching uses only what you explicitly enter. We don't infer your interests from what you click or how long you linger on a page. There's no behavioural model running in the background. If you don't fill in a field, it doesn't affect your matches.

We're working on making your data fully yours, exportable and deletable in one click. That's in the making. What's already true: we don't archive deleted accounts, and we don't hold onto what you didn't give us permission to keep.

We track our own carbon footprint, every server watt, every AI call, every gigabyte transferred, and publish it via a public API. We apply a 1.5x safety multiplier before any offset calculation and we're clear that measuring isn't the same as reducing. It's the honest minimum and we think all platforms should do it.

The platform code is private, but everything we build with is open source. No proprietary dependencies, no vendor lock-in baked into the stack itself.

What comes next

We're expanding the scanner's coverage to more regions and more languages. Arabic and Francophone West Africa queries are already in the bank. NLP classification is coming to tag every discovered opportunity against nine thematic domains and over eighty subdomain tags.

We're also porting parts of the platform to desktop and mobile apps, so the tools you use every day are with you wherever you work.

We'll write about all of it here as it happens.

We're looking for 2 to 3 organisations to co-develop the platform with us. We want organisations willing to work with us directly to assess the tools, shape the workflows, and make the everyday experience actually work for teams like yours. In return, free access for up to two years. If that's your organisation, get in touch.

And we're looking for contributors from within the community: people who want to work with us on the product, the content, the scanner, whatever their skills fit. We don't have funds to formalise this right now, but we will, and when we do, contributors will be the first to benefit. More on that soon.

See ya!