Scale your nonprofit’s impact and mission through online communities.

Build authentic relationships with community members

Discussion threads

As nonprofits are adapting to online programming and training, most are merely migrating content to an online setting, somewhat forcing collaboration and learning into a box.

To combat this, we’ve designed our discussion threads to be collaborative and easily embedded into learning experiences within your community. Starting a discussion thread takes seconds and can be tied to organization-wide projects, training courses, topics of interest or simply getting to know one another in the community. Embed media, tag users and subscribe to discussions for email updates so that you never miss a beat.

Peer mentorship

Spend time getting to know community members through formative and summative feedback structures. Our communities use a peer-reviewed micro-credential structure to reward achievements made and learning competencies achieved. Empower your nonprofit’s contributors as leaders and mentors within your community so that they can facilitate more trainings and initiatives as you grow. Learn more about this process here.

Groups

As your nonprofit grows, create groups, or cohorts, to target communications based on specific interests, projects, volunteers, levels of members and more. Groups can be used for tailored announcements and private discussions within your community.

Share updates with whom you want, when you want

Direct messaging

Have a quick question? Directly message members of your community or engage with other nonprofit leaders on the Participate platform. Our direct messaging feature allows you to search and connect with users in effective, real-time communication. Use direct messages to welcome members to your community and start building connections that lead to impact from day one.

Community announcements

Long gone are the tedious days of creating segmented email lists. Send announcements to your nonprofit’s community or groups of users within your community on topics relevant to them. Announcements appear on the community home feed and automatically send emails to community members.

Elevate learning opportunities for your nonprofit

Online courses

Build virtual training and blended learning experiences that grow your initiatives through self-paced online courses. Our elearning structure allows you to create courses from scratch or using existing content. Easily embed media, connect with community members in learning checkpoints and monetize courses with our built-in e-commerce functionality. Each course is accompanied with a peer-reviewed micro-credential saved to a community member’s profile and easily shared via a micro-credential link.

Nonprofits use virtual courses to train new contributors, engage local volunteers and extend learning beyond in-person or virtual events.