CartONG welcomes all kind of volunteers' skills: mapping, GIS, database management, webmapping, but also project management, communication, translations... In France or anywhere in the world... If you share our values and objectives, you are most welcome!

To give you an overview of the projects we're working on currently, you can have a look at our Trello board:

Convinced?

Nothing simpler than to participate then:

• We regularly organize online meetings "new projects/new volunteers", announced on Twitter et Facebook, in order to present the ongoing activities and integrate new participants on existing or starting projects
• Our local focal points regularly organize events and physical meetings, also announced on social networks. So are the get-together (week-ends of work and fun organized every 6 months) and the Missing Maps mapathons: each of these events are opportunities to come and meet us! You can also visit us at our headquarters: please notify us in advance if possible to make sure someone will be there to welcome you.
• No event planned close to your place soon? No worry, contact us for a direct chat (email/phone).

We also encourage volunteers to become members of the association (cf. below), which is a way to support, to get access to CartONG's technical tools, and to participate to the internal decisions of the association.

Volunteers of CartONG in action! (get-together, exercise, GeOnG...)

Why becoming a member of CartONG?

• To support us officially: having more members is always useful for a NGO.
• To participate in CartONG's democratic life, in particular voting during our General Assemblies and electing the board of the association.
• To get access to some tools reserved to members (project management platform, servers).
• ... and last but not least to get a magnificent CartONG T-Shirt!

The yearly membership fee is of:

• 20 € for new members: with a promotion kit offered!
• 10 € for renewals of membership.

Students and job seekers can benefit from a reduced 15€ (new member) or 7€ (renewal) rate.

Please note that it is not necessary to become a member to get involved in our volunteers' projects (cf. below) - but it is strongly encouraged! All members don't get involved in projects, and we are also welcoming warmly supporting members even if you don't have a lot of time to participate.

Sounds interesting to you? We offer you to pay your membership fee with credit card through the platform of our partner HelloAsso. They don't take a fee, se we encourage you to pay them a small tip to support them!
(if you prefer another payment method, please look below the form)

If you don't want to pay with credit card, you first need to fill the adhesion paper form, then you can pay by:

• Check to the order of "CartONG". You can send your check to CartONG, 180 rue du Gevenois, 73 000 CHAMBERY, France
• Bank transfer, please get in touch to receive our bank coordinates

• You share CartONG's core values of projects that are both sustainable and adapted to the needs of their beneficiaries?
• You think mapping and geographic information should be available for all?
• You want to encourage the development of groundbreaking solutions for humanitarian action and development?
• You share our belief that, even at a small scale, we can make a difference?

... support CartONG, make a donation !

All the donations we receive from individual donors are affected to our volunteers' projects, who support small grassroots NGOs and develop pilot and innovative projects of general interest.

Your donation is eligible for a tax reduction under French law.

We offer you to pay your donation with credit card through the platform of our partner HelloAsso. They don't take a fee, so we encourage you to pay them a small tip to support them!
(if you prefer another payment method, please look below the form)

If you don't want to pay with credit card, you can alternatively pay by:

• Check to the order of "CartONG". You can send your check to CartONG, 180 rue du Gevenois, 73 000 CHAMBERY, France
• Bank transfer, please get in touch with us at info[at]cartong.org

CartONG's objective is to cover as much as possible the needs of humanitarian and development NGOs, whatever their size and location. We therefore offer different model of partnerships, depending on your situation:

• For international NGOs and organizations, we propose partnerships conventions under which our staff team will work with you, with the utmost level of reactivity and quality.
• For grassroots NGOs and local communities, our volunteers can help you without any cost via remote support, and including in-country when we manage to gather funding for a mission! Implementation is of course smaller since implemented by volunteers, however we target a quality of projects similar than the staff team.
• Last but not least, if you have an innovative project idea but don't have the means to kickstart it, please get in touch, we could help you and fundraise together to implement it - even though it is not our core area of expertise!

CartONG has almost no core funds nor public subventions, we are thus unfortunately not able to offer financial support to project initiator that contact us, outside of this potential common fundraising effort.

Our key priority is to develop useful and sustainable projects, with a focus on long-term capacities building. Get in touch to discuss it!

CartONG has a team of permanent employees, plus regular consultants that bring specific skillsets. We also regularly offer missions that are published on this page.

We are looking for :

Service civique Missing Maps (2017 - in French)

If you are interested in being contacted when an opening fitting your profile arises, please submit cover letter and CV (in English): CV form

We are regularly looking for Field GIS officers for emergency deployments during humanitarian crisis, cf. the Terms of reference attached. Missions of 4 to 6 weeks, depending on the context. For information purposes, last missions were in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Mozambique, Niger and Nepal. Make sure you fit the practical requirements (vaccines, passport, consultant status) detailed in the ToRs before applying.

Please apply to info[at]cartong.org.