Partner With Us
When your work is multilingual, your impact is stronger.
The Translators without Borders community, with over 100,000 volunteers and professionals, provide a range of language and communication services. We can help you reach millions of people in over 200 languages, and we're specialized in sensitive information and helping people in a crisis. We have completed over 28000 projects.
- Translation and localization of written content
- Digital content and audiovisual content
- Research, training, and multilingual technology
- Voice data collection
- Programmatic support
Expand your languages, broaden your impact.
Our commitment to quality and accessibility in language services is built on three core pillars: rigorous quality assurance, advanced machine translation integration, and plain language advocacy.
Our quality assurance process employs rigorous standards rooted in industry best practices, featuring extensive revision and quality checks including subject matter expert reviews, the industry-standard DQF-MQM framework for managing translation quality, and partner feedback systems that help us continuously improve, especially for sensitive topics and marginalized languages.
Our Machine Translation strategy integrates MT engines into workflows to enhance productivity and efficiency, particularly for crisis response situations, while combining MT with other tools to ensure consistency and accuracy, though we also offer raw MT for specific use cases like quick sentiment analysis.
We advocate for plain language in humanitarian communications, recognizing that overly complex materials lead to errors and misinterpretations, and we offer plain language services including editing for various documents, coaching sessions, and tailored training programs at basic, intermediate, and advanced levels.
Organizations eligible for partnership are those that:
- Support to vulnerable and marginalized people
- Advancement of social and community welfare
- Advancement of culture and intercultural understanding
- Protection and restoration of the natural environment
- Health services and related activities
- Access to education, information, and knowledge for underserved communities
- Other purposes beneficial to the community and aligned with humanitarian, human rights, or sustainable development values
- Independent or community-led bodies established by private individuals, social entrepreneurs, non-profits, or hybrid social enterprises with a clear social mission
- Governed by a transparent and accountable structure (e.g. board of directors, trustees, or equivalent community governance body)
- Holding legal status as a non-profit, charity, social enterprise, or registered entity with demonstrable community benefit and transparency in financial operations
- Non-partisan and non-discriminatory: operating without discrimination in regard to race, nationality, ethnicity, gender, disability, age, size, political or religious conviction, language, sexual orientation, or socio-economic background
- Humanitarian principles, including impartiality, accountability, and “do no harm” practices
- Ethical standards such as the INGO Charter, the Principles of Partnership of the Global Humanitarian Platform, and prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse
- Responsible fundraising and transparent financial practices
- Ensuring accessibility of services, programs, and communication in underserved languages and for marginalized groups
Religious or faith-based organizations are eligible only if their community-serving activities are secular, non-discriminatory, and not tied to proselytization.
Example: A church-run food bank registered as a separate entity that provides food to all community members, regardless of belief.
The following types of organizations are not eligible:
- Religious organizations whose primary aim is propagation of faith and without a secular, inclusive community designation
- Commerce, trade, or industry associations without demonstrable social or community benefit
- Political, labor, or fraternal organizations whose primary focus is advocacy of partisan interests
- Organizations that advocate, support, or practice discrimination of any kind
Documents eligible for translation are those that:
- Have a clear humanitarian, community development, or social impact purpose
- Directly support access to health, education, protection, livelihoods, or other essential services for vulnerable or underserved populations
- Increase equitable access to funding opportunities for local NGOs, community-based organizations, and social enterprises, particularly in underserved languages
- Support fundraising efforts only when the funds are directly intended for humanitarian, social, or development impact and when language is a barrier to equitable access
- Will be openly available without charge, or, where fundraising is involved, are transparently linked to community-benefit outcomes
We do not translate:
- Legal documents or provide legal-certified translations
- Lobbying or partisan campaigning documents
- Internal human resources documents not directly linked to humanitarian or community impact
“It is both amazing and also very comforting and inspiring to see people donate their time and skills to defend the principles of action and the ideas of humanitarian assistance.”
“I wanted to thank you sincerely for all of your hard work coordinating these translations… I hope we can push them out fast enough to refugees so they really make an impact!”
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