Ten years on: Impactpool’s global talent ecosystem powers meaningful change globally

As we approach our ten-year milestone, we reflect on our positive impact in the world.

By Impactpool 2025

Our new brand identity better captures our value, helping us – and the 1M+ candidates and 3000+ impact-driven organizations who rely on us – continue driving change.

When we built Impactpool a decade ago, we didn’t know exactly what the future could look like. But we knew exactly which problems needed solving.

Our founding team had spent decades working in HR and recruitment in humanitarian aid and international development, facing the same challenges day in, day out. We saw:

Candidates excited to have a positive impact but unsure where to start, how to grow, or how to navigate often-confusing hiring processes.
Organizations endlessly struggling to reach the right people with the right breadth and depth of specialist global expertise and diversity.
Hiring teams losing great people to clunky, slow, confusing hiring processes, often fueled by sourcing that took far too long.

In other words, we could see the urgent need for a bridge – a bridge to connect professionals seeking meaningful work with the organizations where they can make a real difference. Over time, that’s what we built.

Ten years of impact with Impactpool

In 2015 our initial offering focused on job matching and candidate outreach, to help organizations reach the candidates they so desperately needed.
In 2017, we built on this to include recruitment advice for candidates and the technology foundation for more efficient applicant tracking.
In 2020, we grew our capabilities again to include global virtual careers fairs and talent pooling, to help impact organizations become more proactive.
In 2024, we raised $4M in Series A funding and have grown our offerings to include tools for engagement, branding, and long-term talent management.

Today, ten years on, we’re celebrating a global community of over one million sector-specialist candidates and 3000+ organizations across 195 countries.

We partner with major UN organizations including UNICEF, UNHCR, and UNESCO, as well as international organizations such as OECD, the World Health Organization, and the Green Climate Fund, among thousands of others. We also work with select for-profit companies committed to positive impact, who undergo a rigorous screening process to ensure they’re truly impact-driven.

Our global talent ecosystem has become an enormous force for good across the world – and we’re growing constantly towards our ambition to place one billion professionals with organizations dedicated to meaningful change.

To continue accelerating towards that goal, we’re excited to launch a new brand identity. This better encapsulates the value we bring, to help more mission-driven organizations and individuals scale their impact and power more meaningful progress in solving the world’s biggest challenges.

A global talent ecosystem where talent meets impact

Impactpool’s global talent ecosystem connects mission-driven organizations with specialized talent – empowering organizations to build impactful teams while helping professionals find meaningful roles.

Impactpool for candidates

Impactpool connects purpose-driven professionals with opportunities across the global impact sector.

More than 3000 global difference-making organizations work with Impactpool to advertise roles and source talent. Connect your skills, passions, and values with meaningful roles where you can make a true difference.

Over one million candidates from 195 countries trust Impactpool. Create a profile to join the community and access:

Advanced job matching to highlight the right opportunities
Expert career advice and educational resources
Career coaching opportunities from international development experts
Virtual global careers fairs that show you behind the curtain

3000 to 5000 candidates join our community weekly. Sign up for free today and join them.

Impactpool for organizations

Impactpool helps mission-driven organizations attract, source, engage, hire, and deploy diverse, sector-specific talent faster.

Over one million impact sector professionals are part of our community – and 54% of them are women. Using Impactpool you can:

Reach the world’s largest community of global impact talent
Surface skills with advanced AI-matching against criteria that matter
Meet diversity and representation goals
Become more proactive by building talent pools and talent rosters
Hire more efficiently with integrated ATS capabilities
Strengthen employer brand and recruitment marketing
Engage and nurture talent with CRM functionality Assess and optimize hiring strategies with robust analytics