OpenRockets is the premier, zero-cost infrastructure service provider for nonprofits started by the leaders under the age of 20. We are a network spanning the Americas, Europa, Asia-Pacific, Oceania, and beyond. We partner with nonprofits with the potential to change the world, providing them the highest quality security, partnerships, networks, and platforms, and all the things backstage while they thrive. 

Today, our team consists of volunteers who care about building useful tools, supporting young creators, and making technology more accessible. We are building an ecosystem of projects focused on helping good ideas, meaningful work, creativity, and knowledge find a lasting place online.

One part of this work is ZeroProfit, which we think of as a record label for nonprofits. We believe legitimate nonprofit organizations should have a place to exist online without having to rely on temporary-looking subdomains, forgotten pages, or platforms that could disappear tomorrow. We have seen thousands of nonprofits doing meaningful work from addresses such as appleclub.vercel.app or sites.google.com/... . These organizations may be creating real value in their communities, yet they often lack a digital home that truly belongs to them. ZeroProfit is being built to help change that. Our goal is to provide legitimate nonprofit organizations with a place where they can be hosted, supported, and given a more permanent digital identity. We are a network of nonprofits that are changing the world.

This mission is also personal to us.

When we were children, we experienced firsthand how easily the things we create can disappear. One of our team members remembers making origami creations at the age of seven or eight, only for those creations to eventually disappear from a family photo archive. Something that had been created with care and imagination was simply gone. Experiences like these coined us a new lesson. The Intellectual Property of Minors.

That idea is part of the reason we built Open Rockets Press. We want to create places where ideas, research, creativity, and knowledge can be preserved and shared rather than lost in the noise of the internet. We are also building the Interkid Browser and Interkid.org, an internet experience designed with young people in mind. Some of us have personally experienced the shock and discomfort of encountering unnecessary or inappropriate content online at a young age. We do not want other young people to experience the same thing.

Young people deserve a web that is safer, more thoughtful, and built around curiosity rather than exploitation. Our work also includes projects such as Scienteen, where we are exploring new ways for young people and researchers to share ideas. Whether it is a research preprint submitted to a journal or an eggshell painting submitted to a preprint repository, we believe creativity and knowledge should have a place to be documented, discovered, and remembered. Together, these projects reflect a broader vision. We are exploring how the internet can become a place where nonprofits can have homes, ideas can have archives, young people can have safer spaces, and creations can have a chance to endure.