Nonprofit training and resources
Microsoft Training for Nonprofits
On Demand Training
Free on-demand training that allows learners to access content from anywhere and at any time. The variety of courses will help your team enhance their skills and expand their knowledge.
Microsoft Digital Skills Center
Discover how AI-powered tools can support nonprofit staff and volunteers with the Microsoft Digital Skills Center for Nonprofits, a collaboration with TechSoup. Microsoft Philanthropies partners with TechSoup to bring affordable training options to over 1.2M nonprofits around the world. Learn in the way that’s best for your team.
Move from Beginner to Advanced
Beginner
Microsoft Teams 101 for Nonprofits
Learn how to set up Microsoft Teams with nonprofit-focused user scenarios on the Microsoft Digital Skills Center, built in partnership with TechSoup.
Excel for Nonprofits
This Microsoft Digital Skills Center course track covers all the tips and tricks you need to keep record of your data to effectively report your impact.
Getting Started with Microsoft 365
Learn to use the Microsoft 365 suite to get control of your schedule and boost your productivity.
Administrator’s Security Toolkit
This course will help you get into a security mindset and become familiar with the security settings and tools within the Microsoft 365 suite.
Microsoft 365 fundamentals training
Learn how Microsoft 365 can support your nonprofit’s digital transformation.
Microsoft 365 accessibility training
Learn to make Microsoft 365 documents and services more accessible to the 1 billion people with disabilities worldwide.
Getting started with Microsoft Teams
Review best practices from a Microsoft expert to ensure your nonprofit is getting the most out of Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft Teams live courses
Explore a series of free, live, online training classes designed to introduce you to Teams.
Optimizing Your Work with Microsoft 365
Leverage Microsoft 365 products to create efficiencies in your work, based on your preferences.
Collaborating with Microsoft 365
This course will help you use both Teams and SharePoint to collaborate with others more effectively.
Managing Projects with Microsoft 365
Learn to use Microsoft 365 apps to increase your project management skills.
Managing Data with Microsoft 365
Learn to gather, organize, and distribute data using data tools, including Forms, Power Automate, Excel and Power BI.
Intermediate
Microsoft Teams 201 for Nonprofits
Learn how to make the most of Teams and increase your knowledge of core features through nonprofit-focused user scenarios on the Microsoft Digital Skills Center.
Excel 201
This Microsoft Digital Skills Center course track covers advanced functions like pivot tables/charts and calculated fields.
Collaborating with SharePoint
Discover the key features of SharePoint and how it works with Microsoft 365 in four different modules.
Microsoft event sessions
Register for both live and on-demand training from our Microsoft experts located around the world.
Security, compliance, and identity training
Learn about core concepts, principles, and methodologies that are foundational to security, compliance, and identity solutions, including Zero-Trust, shared responsibility, our privacy principles, and more.
Advanced
Information protection training
Learn how to protect your sensitive information from data loss, oversharing, or misuse with Microsoft 365 in this collection of different modules.
Microsoft 365 security training
Learn how to proactively manage and secure your nonprofit’s identities, devices, end points, and IT infrastructure in these four modules.
Microsoft 365 Champion program
Connect with other Microsoft 365 users to seek new and efficient ways to tackle tasks and exchange methods for improving collaboration.
Virtual training days
Learn how to increase collaboration without compromising security in these free Microsoft 365 virtual training events.
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Microsoft 365 Business Premium course
Learn how Microsoft 365 Business Premium can help support common nonprofit scenarios and make collaboration, security, mobility, and device management easier than ever.
Crash Course in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams helps your team communicate the way they want, makes your meetings more productive, and increases collaboration. Take the crash course to learn how.
Pivoting to digital events
Join us for a free 60 minute online event as we discuss technology solutions like Microsoft Teams and Teams Live Events. We will also share tips and tricks you can use for your own event needs.
Microsoft Teams Adoption Guide
This toolkit will get your organization up and running quickly with Microsoft Teams, starting with chat, teams & channels, and meetings.
Beginner
Azure fundamentals
Interested in the cloud, but aren't quite sure what it can do for you? Start with this set of modules that cover the basics and will help you prepare you for more advanced Azure courses and certifications.
Digital transformation with Azure
Dive deeper into how Azure can help you achieve your mission through data insights, artificial intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT).
Azure Data Fundamentals
Interested in data science and analytics, but aren't quite sure where to start? Start with this set of modules that cover the basics and will help you prepare you for more advanced Azure courses and certifications.
Virtual training days
Expand your knowledge of Azure, gain new skills, and connect with Microsoft experts in these free, virtual training events.
Intermediate
Identifying responsible principles for AI
Learn how to set up an AI governance model in your organization and gain best practices along the way with this set of modules.
Setting up a virtual desktop & chatbots
Discover how to keep your nonprofit running with chatbots and Windows Virtual Desktop in this training video led by an expert from the Microsoft Tech for Social Impact team.
Driving impact with data science
Learn how your nonprofit can use basic data science and machine-learning models to make an impact in this webinar led by an expert from the Microsoft Tech for Social Impact team.
Microsoft event sessions
Choose from a selection of Azure-focused sessions in this catalogue of Microsoft Events to learn more about the topics you are most interested in.
Advanced
Securing your cloud applications
Learn how to secure your Azure apps and all your data with encryption, certificates, and policies in this set of modules.
Building an intelligent edge
Interested in running cloud intelligence on edge devices? This set of self-paced modules offers the perfect place to start.
Pluralsight training
Pluralsight and Microsoft have partnered to help you become an Azure expert by offering over 200 video courses. Start here to prepare for advanced Azure certifications.
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Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches
This e-book will reinforce your skills by breaking down the most important Azure concepts into bite-sized lessons with exercises and labs, along with project files available in GitHub.
Cloud Migration Essentials
A strong plan is necessary for successful cloud migration. This e-book details how to evaluate the end cloud environment, necessary training, and readiness of your workloads and applications.
Ultimate Windows Server on Azure guide
The path from Windows Server to the cloud is made easy with Microsoft resources. Learn how to leverage existing Windows Server knowledge and shift to Azure cloud to benefit your organization.
Data and AI TechTalk
This on-demand, demo-rich virtual event will help you learn how Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI work together to deliver actionable insights with sub-second performance over massive data sets.
Beginner
Power BI 101
Learn the basic setup features of Microsoft Power BI through nonprofit-specific scenarios on the Microsoft Digital Skills Center, built in partnership with TechSoup.
Power Apps 101
Learn how to use Microsoft Power Apps to build custom applications to support the needs of your nonprofit through this course.
Power Platform fundamentals training
Explore this set of modules to learn the Microsoft Power Platform capabilities of and how they can support your nonprofit’s digital transformation.
Consume data with Power BI
Do you want to make business decisions backed by data? Learn how review and interact with data using Power BI with this set of modules.
Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit Demo
See all the capabilities in Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit, including how Volunteer Management and Volunteer Engagement can help empower your staff and volunteers to deliver measurable and responsive programs.
Power BI for nonprofits demo
Experience the capabilities of Power BI from Microsoft experts in a demo environment.
Develop dashboards using Power BI
With just a few clicks, Power BI can help you shape and transform data while uncovering hidden insights.
Power Platform live training
Connect live with Microsoft experts for free online training that will help you learn the basics of Power Platform.
Intermediate
Power BI 201
Take this Microsoft Digital Skills Center course to learn how to model your data and find relationships using Power BI.
Power Apps 201
Learn best practices for building and managing your custom apps as a follow-up to Power Apps 101 through this course on the Microsoft Digital Skills Center.
Process flow in Power Automate
Explore this set of modules to learn about business process flows and how to leverage them to solve problems.
Data analyst associate certification
Take it one step at a time with this self-paced course to prepare for the DA-100: Data Analyst Associate exam.
Dashboard in a day
All you need to know about Power BI in a one-day, hands-on workshop for business analysts.
App in a day
Build apps to help you gain a better view of your impact, without needing to write code, at this free training for IT and business decision makers.
Advanced
Using advanced data in Power Apps
Learn how to build custom data connectors and improve your app user experience with this collection of modules.
Master advanced Power Apps techniques
Follow this learning path to get comfortable using advanced formulas and performance checks to optimize your Power Apps.
Solution architect training
Prepare for the MB-800: Power Platform Solution Architect exam at your own pace with this set of modules.
Intro to becoming a solution architect
Prepare for the MB-800: Power Platform Solution Architect exam with live training sessions led by a partner.
Explore more Dynamics 365 and Power Platform resources
Building constituent relationships
Take contextual information into every conversation and enable personalized interactions through a 360-degree view of donor and volunteer engagements.
Building your first business app
Learn how to turn your ideas into apps with an introduction to the Microsoft Power Platform, no coding experience required.
Low-code app development
Learn how to reduce costs and increase the agility of your IT resources while empowering every team to build rich apps with drag-and-drop simplicity.
The developer’s 7-Step guide
Learn how to accelerate foundational app development. Explore using pre-built connectors and custom APIs in Microsoft Power Apps to integrate cloud-based and on-premises data while adding powerful, in-app intelligence in real-time.
