The Merit Team Experience

Leaders of teams using Merit have access to a range of extra features that help to further the nonprofit's learning culture. Team Merit works closely with executive directors, human resources directors, or the lead staff charged with professional development to ensure that all of the resources on Merit are used to their fullest.

  • Team Engagement Data Dashboard

  • Ongoing Team Engagement Reporting

  • Custom Training Content Hosting

  • Implementation Plan Design

  • Group and Individual Support Year-Round

Immediate Access

Unlimited Users

Learning Activity Reporting

Our leaders love Merit.

Nonprofit leaders love that Merit takes the headache out of professional development. Whether they use the Merit Nonprofit Professional Development online learning platform as a staff benefit to increase retention, or include it as a structured part of the employee performance review process (or anything in between!), all of them love the fuss-free approach to giving their entire team equitable access to quality professional development.

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The Merit Process

The Merit Nonprofit Professional Development platform activates your entire team around building core nonprofit capacity. Our process is simple and effective, and builds a culture of learning.

Most Merit teams kick off their year with a live launch party. Learners can immediately access Merit's learning resources and have unlimited use for a full year.

  • Your entire team is enrolled. Every member of your team gets their own Merit log-in.

  • Everyone's engaged, everyone's encouraged. Team Merit follows up individually with learners at 7 days past our live launch party to ensure they have what they need for success and gives leaders ongoing data on their team's progress, starting with day 14.

  • Success is celebrated! Your team members will earn badges, be invited to ongoing learner support sessions, and get shout-outs for all their forward progress.

Merit's Foundations

Merit's content and online learning experience is based on three principal components.

Impact Capacity Assessment Tool (from Algorhythm)

The iCAT is an nonprofit-specific organizational assessment tool that measures six domains of capacity in nonprofits of all sizes:

  • Leading
  • Learning
  • Resource-Generating
  • Managing
  • Overseeing
  • Planning
    • Leadership Architect (from Korn Ferry Institute)

    The Korn Ferry Institute is a leader in competency-focused research and practical application, and the 38-skill framework "For Your Improvement" is used throughout the Merit platform.

    Organizational & Leadership Psychology Principals

    To power the people behind nonprofit work, Merit's instructional design bridges key principals of leadership, self-efficacy, group dynamics, and motivational theory to leverage the psychology at play behind the work our teams do.