Digital inclusion is more than access — it’s about ensuring that everyone has the tools, skills, and support they need to fully participate in society. The Digital Equity Professional Certificate helps nonprofit staff understand the systems that create digital divides and the strategies to bridge them.
Created with guidance from digital inclusion leaders, the Digital Equity Professional Certificate helps nonprofit professionals understand the systemic barriers to digital access and how to address them through thoughtful, community-centered strategies.
Participants explore courses on digital literacy, redlining, trauma-informed training, fair chance hiring, and accessible program design. Leadership-focused courses add strategic tools for guiding internal and external equity efforts.
This certificate is ideal for program designers, community outreach staff, and organizational leaders committed to building inclusive digital ecosystems and embedding equity into every level of service delivery.
An NTEN certificate is more than a professional credential, it's a valuable learning opportunity that you'll actually use. The electives let me dig deeply into a subject that interests me and I was able to use that knowledge for my final project, which is now a guiding document for our organization's accessibility work.
- Emily Lapayowker , Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)Assistant Director, Web
Certificate requirements
To complete this certificate, you must complete 12 one-hour courses and a final assignment – all of which can be completed at your own pace. You can take up to one year to complete the certificate from your enrollment date.
- 6 digital inclusion courses
- 2 leadership courses
- 5 courses from any category
- 1 final assignment
Sample certificate paths
Earning a certificate with NTEN means you can select the courses that best match your learning goals and subject matter interests. With all that choice, each participant’s combination of courses looks different, but here are a few examples from other practitioners who recently completed a certificate in Nonprofit Technology.
Database Coordinator working in healthcare
Digital inclusion courses:
- Foundations of digital inclusion
- Inclusive data literacy in a diverse organization
- Fair chance hiring
- Select and implement a digital skills curriculum
- Accessibility in digital inclusion
- Trauma-informed training
Leadership courses:
- Constituent and community data privacy
- Nonprofit product management strategies
Other courses:
- Designing a multi-generational training plan
- Introduction to multi-system integrations
- Develop and implement effective cybersecurity policies
- Intro to the AI framework for an equitable world
- Mitigate bias in AI
Program Manager working in digital inclusion
Digital inclusion courses:
- Expanding home connectivity in Your community
- Digital literacy curriculum development and design
- Evaluating community resources for digital inclusion
- Digital inclusion project planning
- Foundations of digital inclusion
- Data for digital Inclusion
Leadership courses:
- Racial equity and tech planning
- Community-Centered Strategic Planning
Other courses:
- Emerging tech trends and their impact for social good
- IT planning and assessment
- Bringing accessibility to your nonprofit's technology
- Learning & development in nonprofit data & tech
- Lead with technology roadmaps
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