Find partners, mobilize resources, and coordinate multi-org collaboration — all in one place
Your organization has mission-critical needs — funding, expertise, partners, volunteers — but finding the right match means endless searching through networks, platforms, and email lists. Action Network brings opportunities, partners, and coordination tools together, so you can focus on delivery instead of discovery.
Sound familiar?
Partner search consumes staff time
Finding the right consortium partners for grant applications means scrolling through outdated contact lists, cold emailing organizations you found on Google, and waiting for responses that never come. Deadlines pass while you're still searching.
Expertise gaps stall projects
Your team needs a grant writer, a legal advisor, or an M&E specialist — but you don't have budget for staff and don't know who to ask. The project sits in limbo while you figure out how to fill the gap.
Cross-org coordination through email chaos
You're managing a multi-partner project through 15 email threads, 3 shared Google Drives, and a spreadsheet tracking who owes what. Contributions arrive in different formats, some partners miss deadlines, and you have no visibility into who's working on what.
Institutional knowledge locked in individuals
Your programme manager leaves and takes all the partnership history, collaboration outcomes, and lessons learned with them. The next team starts from scratch because nothing was documented in a central place.
What the platform does for you
Intelligent Partner Matching
Get matched with partner organizations and skilled professionals aligned with your mission
A Greek refugee support NGO posts a need for EU funding proposal support. The matching engine surfaces a grant writing specialist in Berlin with proven Erasmus+ experience, 4 shared interests, and availability before the deadline. They connect and join a workspace to co-author the application.
Opportunity Marketplace
Post your needs once and reach the entire network — funding, expertise, volunteers, partnerships
A Kenyan cooperative posts "Seeking carbon accounting consultant for baseline assessment" with tags, timeline, and budget. Three qualified professionals express interest within 48 hours. The org reviews profiles, picks the best fit, and creates a workspace to track deliverables.
Cross-Organization Workspaces
Coordinate multi-org collaboration with structured deliverables, contribution tracking, and transparent status
Four organizations across three countries win an Erasmus+ KA2 partnership. The lead org creates a workspace with deliverables mapped to work packages. Partners submit contributions (curriculum modules, impact data, evaluation reports), the coordinator reviews and approves, and everyone sees what's due, what's submitted, and what's overdue.
Connections
Build a documented network of partnerships with tracked outcomes
After completing five connections — three collaborations, one partnership, one knowledge exchange — your organization's profile shows a track record. When you post your next opportunity, partners see evidence of successful collaboration and prioritize your requests.
Knowledge Base
Learn from other organizations' real-world outcomes before you commit resources
Before launching a community-led monitoring programme, your team searches the knowledge base and finds a case study from Indonesia: deliverables, timeline, partner constellation, what worked, what didn't, and advice for replication. You adapt their approach and avoid repeating their mistakes.
Organizations
Manage your team, track member contributions, and maintain institutional memory across collaborations
Your organization has 8 staff across 3 ongoing partnerships. The admin dashboard shows who's a member of which workspace, which deliverables they're responsible for, and which contributions have been approved. When a team member leaves, the collaboration history stays with the organization.
Trusted Organizations, Verified Impact
Signal organizational credibility with verified legal status, mission, and track record
After submitting registration documents and evidence of two completed projects, your organization gets verified. Partner organizations and funders see the badge and prioritize collaboration requests. Verification also unlocks visibility in funder-restricted opportunity listings.
Automatic Opportunity Discovery
Stop manually checking dozens of funding portals — opportunities come to you
The ingestion pipeline scans EU funding portals, partner announcements, and forwarded emails. When a new Horizon Europe call matches your focus areas, it appears in your opportunity feed with extracted details: deadline, budget, eligibility, required partners. You see it days before it hits your email.
Your journey on the platform
Register your organization
Add organization profile: mission, focus areas, legal status, team members. Invite your colleagues. Takes 10 minutes to get started.
Discover partners and opportunities
Get matched with organizations and professionals aligned with your mission. Browse curated opportunities filtered by sector, type, location, and timeline. Post your own needs to reach the network.
Connect and coordinate
Send connection requests to potential partners. When you win funding or start a collaboration, create a workspace. Define deliverables, invite partners from multiple organizations, assign responsibilities, and track status in one place.
Build institutional knowledge
Every workspace archives with structured learnings: what worked, what didn't, advice for others. Published workspaces become searchable case studies. Your organization's collaboration history becomes discoverable — not locked in email threads.
Real-world scenarios
Needs 3 EU partners for Erasmus+ KA2 application on digital literacy for refugees. Deadline in 8 weeks. Posts opportunity on ANW with tags, eligibility criteria, and budget range.
Outcome
Three qualified partners connect within 5 days (Greece, Italy, Sweden). Creates workspace for application with deliverables: partner mandates, needs analysis, logical framework, full application. All partners submit contributions, coordinator compiles, application submitted on time. Funded. Workspace converts to project with milestones for work packages.
Needs carbon accounting consultant for baseline assessment. No existing network of consultants. Budget limited. Posts opportunity: "Seeking carbon accounting expert for agricultural cooperative baseline (3 months, remote OK, $3000 budget)".
Outcome
Climate researcher in Nairobi expresses interest. Profile shows verified expertise in carbon accounting and 3 completed similar projects. Workspace created for deliverables: methodology review, baseline survey, carbon footprint report. Consultant submits work, manager reviews and approves. Report published, connection marked "collaborated".
Running 6-month incubation for 8 social enterprises from Eastern Europe. Needs to track each venture's progress (business model, impact framework, pitch deck) and coordinate 3 mentor organizations.
Outcome
Creates project "Incubation Cohort 7" with 6 monthly milestones. Each venture gets a workspace for deliverables. Mentor orgs join as project members, review contributions across ventures. Dashboard shows completion % per venture, overdue deliverables flagged. Demo day: all pitch decks compiled in one workspace.
Flooding in Pakistan. Needs to coordinate emergency response with 3 local partners, then transition to 18-month recovery programme. Time-critical, some local staff have no ANW accounts.
Outcome
Creates emergency workspace, invites local partners (2 join immediately, 1 local staff via guest account). Partners submit situation reports, distribution plans, GPS data. After 3 months, workspace archives. Creates project for recovery programme with milestones: shelter, livelihoods, water, training. Donor gets read-only access link to monitor progress.
Cross-border advocacy coalition (no single leader, equals governance) wants to jointly advocate for EU environmental policy. Some actions are funded, some aren't.
Outcome
Creates persistent workspace "Balkan Green Coalition" for ongoing coordination: position papers, policy briefs, joint statements. Coalition grows to 12 orgs. When donor funds a 12-month campaign, lead org (chosen by coalition) creates project "Clean Rivers Campaign 2027" linked to the workspace. Milestones: research, lobbying, public campaign, impact report. Each spawns workspaces for specific outputs. Original coalition workspace stays active for unfunded work.