Since 2000, NTEN has been a trusted resource for nonprofits and vendors navigating the nonprofit technology landscape. Our staff includes experts in fields ranging from program design and organization management to web development and digital campaigns, and each of us shares a deep commitment to fulfilling our vision and mission. If your team is working through a technology decision, building internal capacity, applying an equity framework, or designing an offering for the sector, we'd like to help.
Every engagement starts with a needs assessment to make sure we're the right fit and can genuinely add value. The areas below highlight some of the common ways that nonprofits, funders, and vendors work with NTEN but these are not the only options. Get in touch to tell us what you're working on.
Strategy, planning, and facilitation
For nonprofits navigating technology decisions and for technology companies looking to work with the sector.
For technology companies
If your company builds tools for or wants to work with nonprofits, NTEN can help you understand what the sector actually needs. We can help you tailor your product or service for nonprofit use cases, design meaningful CSR or sector investment strategies, and build credibility within the community.
Equity in technology
NTEN's Equity Guide for Nonprofit Technology offers a framework for embedding equity into your technology decisions and practices. We can work alongside your team to apply it to your policies, processes, and day-to-day work. We intentionally work with nonprofits, funders, and vendors as the Equity Guide includes everyone.
Facilitation
Need an experienced facilitator for a board meeting, strategic planning session, or team workshop? We know how to hold productive conversations and keep them moving. This is also especially helpful for organizations exploring new technology investments or policies.
Funder and grantee support
If you're a funder looking to increase the technical capacity of your grantees — or design technology-for-good programs through your company — NTEN brings both sector knowledge and hands-on program experience to the work. Bring our programs and resources directly to your network.
Learning and program design
For organizations building or improving educational programs, training, or digital literacy initiatives.
Online learning programs
NTEN has nearly 20 years of experience designing educational programs for nonprofit staff. We can help with curriculum structure, learner engagement strategy, cohort-based program design, and best practices drawn from running our own courses and certificate programs.
Learning management system setup
Beyond strategy, we can handle the technical setup of your learning management system — because we manage our own. Use NTEN's own LMS on your own systems, or let us help you develop your own. We provide full shared services or an outside expert guiding your implementation.
Digital literacy program design
Through NTEN's Digital Inclusion Fellowship, we've spent years training nonprofit staff to build and run digital literacy programs within their own organizations. We can help you design something similar for your community that fits within your mission, including supporting and coaching your staff to run and maintain key services.
Accessibility
Building accessibility into your materials and programs is both a technical and a strategic undertaking. NTEN can help you assess where you are, identify gaps, and implement practical improvements — from document and web accessibility to captioning, screen reader compatibility, and inclusive program design.
Technical and infrastructure support
For organizations that need help getting the right systems in place — and keeping them running.
Technology infrastructure
From membership management systems to learning platforms to conference platform infrastructure, NTEN can provide guidance on strategic priorities and considerations, advice on project planning, and suggestions for how to select a consultant for implementation if desired.
Data management
Choosing the right constituent relationship management system is one of the most consequential technology decisions a nonprofit makes. NTEN can help you build a process that you lead internally to evaluate needs, assess data and system requirements, and plan for next steps.
How it works
Every engagement starts with a needs assessment. Before scoping any work, we want to make sure we're the right fit and can genuinely add value to what your organization is doing.
We'll work with you to identify where to focus, scope the work together, and then get started. Everything we do is grounded in the equitable and ethical use of technology — we try to live that in how we work, not just what we talk about.
Not ready to work with us directly?
NTEN has resources that can help right now.
Explore our course catalog — 60+ self-paced courses covering technology strategy, cybersecurity, digital equity, and more. A good place to build knowledge before deciding on next steps.
Join the community — Connect with nonprofit peers around topics ranging from social media management to human resources. Sometimes shared experience is exactly what's needed.
