There is enormous potential in using the Internet to marshal the resources of faith-based communities to more effectively provide social services to under-resourced communities. Faith-based organizations make up 22 of the top 100 nonprofits in the USA, and over 90% of these organizations’ budgets are focused on social services. Faith-based volunteers in the USA provide over $51.8 billion in volunteer time each year. Christian organizations globally have a combined budget of $390 billion, and Christians together have a combined income of $18.17 trillion. Our vision is to use the Internet to greatly increase the amount of these resources that is going toward social services serving under-resourced communities.

Over the next ten years, the goal of our TechMission Online program is to use the Internet to deliver over $700 million in resources from the faith-based community to provide social services to under-resourced communities. Over the next 10 years, this will include serving over 50 million web visitors, placing 1 million volunteers, providing 150,000 items of creative commons content for nonprofits, providing nonprofit college courses to over 6,500 students and funding 700 full-time interns. The end goal is that these increased resources would enable organizations to serve millions more individuals in under-resourced communities, with hundreds of thousands of individuals participating in youth programs, being placed in jobs and college, receiving educational certification and participating in rehabilitation programs.

TechMission Online is a mashup utilizing partnerships with the largest Christian social service organizations in the world that serve over 15 million individuals from low-income communities each year. Our partners include the Salvation Army, the Association of Gospel Rescue Missions, World Vision, Youth Partners Net, Christian Community Development Association, Urban Youth Workers Institute and thousands of local social service agencies. We enable these partners to rebrand our online volunteer matching service and Web 2.0 portal to serve their individual communities. This enables us to provide a common database of opportunities and set of tools across many different partners. We also provide both Christian and secular brands of our online services so that we can effectively target Christian social service organizations while also providing resources without faith-content to other communities.