Partner with NTEN

For foundations, companies, and mission-aligned organizations in the US and around the world
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NTEN works to create a world where missions and movements succeed through the skillful and equitable use of technology.


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When you partner with NTEN, you equip hundreds of nonprofits with the knowledge, support, and skills to work more effectively for a better world.


NTEN’s vibrant, inclusive community includes more than 25,000 people working on a variety of missions and movements across the United States, Canada, and over 20 other countries. By partnering with NTEN, you’ll ensure this community has access to the skills and knowledge they need to carry out their world-changing work.

Many partnerships are designed to bring NTEN's valuable training, resources, and capacity-building support directly to our partners' grantees or customer community, helping more nonprofits get the strategic support they need to be effective in meeting their mission.


Why partner with NTEN

NTEN is the only organization providing professional development, certificates, and industry-leading events that are platform-agnostic. By supporting NTEN, you help:

Increase nonprofit technology leadership

We provide remote and in-person training programs, courses, certificates, and learning cohorts that help nonprofit professionals build skills and confidence to be thoughtful technology leaders and strategists.

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Build capacity for strategic technology

Our cohort programs and equitable technology resources provide transformative opportunities for staff across an organization to advance technology projects with support and guidance to ensure success.

Expand digital inclusion and sector research

Our reports and publications are trusted resources across the sector, enabling organizations of all sizes to find insights into their own technology practices as well as create sector benchmarks for public use.

NTEN offers many opportunities to support the nonprofit technology community. Partnerships can support specific programs, community initiatives, or the broader NTEN mission – connect, learn, change.


Connect

Support NTEN’s vibrant, self-organized community groups and gatherings — including our beloved conference, the NTC. Enable more people to connect, learn, and participate in this community.

NTC sponsorships

Sponsor NTEN's biggest community offering – the Nonprofit Technology Conference – that gathers thousands of nonprofit staff in person and virtually.

Sponsorships put you in front of an engaged nonprofit community.

Tech clubs

Tech clubs are volunteer-organized local groups across the U.S. and beyond that host free, accessible community meetups to learn and connect.

Help support the organizers manage the cost of running events each month.

Membership

By supporting our pay-what-you-can membership option, you’ll help make NTEN membership more accessible to people just starting in their career or working in grassroots movements who may have less financial flexibility.


Learn

Fund NTEN's most valuable and longstanding offering – the educational resources we provide that help train, mentor, and build a generation of equitable, tech-enabled nonprofit leaders.

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Digital Inclusion Fellowship

Bring digital equity programs to communities you care about through NTEN's flagship 12-month fellowship program. Partners work with NTEN to select fellows and their organizations as well as the specific geographies served.

Nonprofit Tech Readiness

Equip your grantees, customers, or other nonprofits with product-agnostic technology guidance, training, and project support. Partners can also provide thought leadership, pro-bono consulting, or funding.

Nonprofit Cybersecurity Readiness

Strengthen data and systems security in organizations you care about, especially those with vulnerable communities or missions. Partners can fund publicly, or support private cohorts for grantees or customers.

Open Source Fellowship

Expand opportunities for open source developers within the nonprofit sector, enabling more organizations to build what they need and share with others. Partners can select geographies, mission areas, or even development focus areas.

Course scholarships

Provide scholarships for nonprofit professionals generally or bring NTEN's courses to your community through our on-demand catalog designed for adult learners. Partners can work with NTEN on bulk access discounts.

Certificate scholarships

Increase the technology leadership in your community by providing general scholarships or group access to certification with NTEN. Partners can work with NTEN to design cohort experiences to add value for participants.


Change

Fund changemakers shaping technology for social good, publish nonprofit sector benchmarks and research, support greater tech readiness in organizations, and advocate for greater inclusion, access, and ethics in technology.

Pizzigati Prize

Celebrate the work of open-source developers with the Pizzigati Prize, which provides a $10,000 cash prize to developers or organizations building tech that helps social change.

Tech Accelerate

Collect the technology adoption and effectiveness data of your clients, grantees, or partner agencies so you can inform your decision-making.

Sector research

Ensure that organizations, funders, and technology providers have shared data about the realities of technology adoption and perception through research projects. Partners receive visibility through co-branded publications.

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