What's the difference between an account Owner, Administrator, or Contact?

Three types of access can be granted through an organization’s Idealist profile:

Owners, Administrators, and Contacts. 

An organization profile must have at least one Owner; however, beyond this the profile can have as many additional Owners, Administrators and/or Contacts as you’d like. 

Check out our other articles for more information on how to request Administrator access and how to manage Administrators.

Owners & Administrators

The person who originally creates the organization’s page automatically becomes an Owner. 

Owners and Administrators both have all permissions to post listings, edit the organization’s profile, and add other Administrators. They can also add and remove Contacts. 

Only Owners can:

Promote other Administrators to Owners or remove other Administrators and Owners.

Contacts

Contacts have limited permissions to be able to receive applications on volunteer listings only. 

Contacts cannot post listings, manage Administrators, or edit the organization profile. Visit our other article for more information on how to assign a Contact to a volunteer listing.

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