Create new advocates for your cause
Raise funds and awareness for your nonprofit organization by hosting activities your guests will love.
Connect locals and travelers with your mission
From sharing your beekeeping skills to leading a cultural cooking class, you can offer a Social Impact experience designed to connect guests with your mission.
Airbnb waives its fees, so 100% of the proceeds go to your nonprofit.
From sharing your beekeeping skills to leading a cultural cooking class, you can offer a Social Impact experience designed to connect guests with your mission.
Airbnb waives its fees, so 100% of the proceeds go to your nonprofit.
Reach an audience that cares
Raise awareness among a global community of travelers who share your values. With millions of visitors every month, Airbnb can increase visibility for your nonprofit.
Jon, host of “Paddle with Penguins” Cape Town, South Africa
Jon, host of “Paddle with Penguins” Cape Town, South Africa
Generate sustainable income
Airbnb waives our 20% service fee for social impact experiences, so all funds you raise go directly to achieving your mission.
Gianfranco, host of “Archaeologist for a Day” Rome, Italy
Gianfranco, host of “Archaeologist for a Day” Rome, Italy
Inspire new advocates
By connecting people to your mission on a deeper level, you can create more volunteers, donors, and activists who’ll continue spreading the word about your cause.
Vy, host of “Get uplifted with gospel” Harlem, New York City
Vy, host of “Get uplifted with gospel” Harlem, New York City
Host on your own terms
Set the recurring frequency that’s right for you, pick your price and group size (up to 10), and manage all the details wherever you are with our convenient mobile app.
Ryan, host of “Hike Runyon Canyon with a rescue dog” Los Angeles, USA
Ryan, host of “Hike Runyon Canyon with a rescue dog” Los Angeles, USA
How to get started
Find a host
Who conveys the heart of your mission? Consider staff, volunteers, community members and beneficiaries as a host for your experience – you can also hire an expert in your field.
Verify your nonprofit
To benefit from waived fees, your nonprofit will need to be registered with our validation partner.
Create your experience
Introduce people to your cause in a unique, hands-on way. If your experience meets our quality standards, you’ll add dates and start hosting!
Learn how it's done
See what hundreds of nonprofits around the globe are doing to promote awareness, create long-term advocates, and raise funds.
See what hundreds of nonprofits around the globe are doing to promote awareness, create long-term advocates, and raise funds.
About Airbnb
What is Airbnb?
Airbnb connects people with places to stay and things to do around the world. The community is powered by hosts, who provide their guests with the unique opportunity to travel like a local.
What is an Airbnb experience?
An activity designed and led by inspiring locals. Experiences go beyond typical tours or classes by immersing guests into your unique world. Anyone can share a hobby, skill, or expertise without needing an extra room.
Questions answered
Social impact hosts can be staff, board members, contractors, volunteers, or supporters of an NGO/nonprofit. They have real expertise in the work of the nonprofit and the consent of the organization to host.
The organization itself must be a registered NGO/nonprofit as defined by our validation partner TechSoup, and be validated through the TechSoup portal.
Who is not eligible to host a Social Impact experience? • Religious or belief organizations, except when the activities being sponsored are non-sectarian, such as soup kitchens or shelters, and are open to all faiths. • Organizations that discriminate or have exclusionary practices on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, or other issues of diversity, even if this could be permitted by local laws. • Political or lobbying organizations, fraternities/sororities and certain advocacy and mutual benefit organizations.
Read more: www.airbnb.com/how-do-i-host-a-social-impact-experience
Not for Social Impact experience hosts. Airbnb waives its 20% fee for validated nonprofit hosts. That means 100% of the proceeds raised from the experience go directly to your organization’s bank account.
Experiences are meant to be recurring, on-going activities that locals and travelers can book. Since you will have have total flexibility and ownership over your calendar availability, you can decide how often you’d like to host.
Some Social Impact hosts host 3x a week, whereas others host twice a month. We recommend hosting on a least once a week to give you more opportunities to connect with the Airbnb community. The more dates you have available, the more guests will see you when searching on the platform.
As more dates means more likelihood of visibility, we do not recommend one-off experiences or events as a Social Impact experience.
Yes. To be eligible, every person who hosts or helps host an experience must have an Airbnb account, and must be mentioned by name in the "About you" section. It's against Airbnb's policies for multiple hosts unless they follow the rules above.
Not at all. Airbnb experiences and Airbnb Homes are separate offerings. Experience hosts are able to share their passions and become an ambassador for their city without having to host in their home.
In terms of Experience guests, they do not need to be staying in a Home to book an Experience. Many Experiences guests happen to be travelers staying in Airbnb listings, but we are also seeing local guests as a way to deepen ties in the community and make local connections.
Since Social Impact hosts receive 100% of proceeds generated by the experience, the host will have to connect the nonprofit's bank account directly to the Airbnb account that they are hosting on.
That means you will need to create a new Airbnb account using your nonprofit e-mail address and add the nonprofit’s bank account as a payout method.
Twenty-four hours after your experience is completed, you will receive the payout in your preferred method.
Airbnb mission is to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. We feel that one of the most impactful ways to get to know new place and make connections there is to understand the issues that locals care about. Working with NGOs/nonprofits allows us to further our mission by diversifying the experiences on our platform while creating a positive impact in communities.