Build the capacity of every team member, every day.

With full-team, flat-rate pricing for a best-in-class nonprofit education experience, Merit helps you support your nonprofit team, your clients, your grantees, and your members.

Includes Free Trial!

Merit® Core Platform

7 day free trial
  - Full learning experience for all team members
  - Implementation planning session and live launch party
  - Onboarding & learner management
  - Team engagement data
  - Anytime customer support
  - Seasonal leadership roundtables

$ 300 /mo

  • Immediate access to 250+ courses
  • Unlimited team member enrollment
  • Learn anywhere, anytime from any web-enabled device

Merit® Core Platform


  - Full learning experience for all team members
  - Implementation planning session and live launch party
  - Onboarding & learner management
  - Team engagement data
  - Anytime customer support
  - Seasonal leadership roundtables
  - 50% discount on all Nonprofit Help Center products & services

$ 3,000 /year

  • Immediate access to 250+ courses
  • Unlimited team member enrollment
  • Learn anywhere, anytime from any web-enabled device
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Merit® Core Platform + Custom Content


  ...everything from the Merit® Core Platform plan, plus:
  - Custom content hosting for one course
  Additional courses available for $360
  Full-team or select enrollment
  - 12 hours of support from the Merit® team
  - Quarterly strategy sessions
  - Unique features and learning experiences, including social community area, embeddable surveys, unlimited video hosting, required lessons, and more

$ 6,000 /year

  • Immediate access to 250+ courses
  • Unlimited team member enrollment
  • Learn anywhere, anytime from any web-enabled device

Pay-As-You-Go

One team Silver license to use with a client and package or charge how you wish:
  All 28 learning paths and 84 badges
  Onboarding done for you
  Live team launch party!
  Access to your client's engagement data

$ 1,800 /license

  • Published value of $2,400
  • Can be combined with any services, coaching, or analysis that you already offer.
  • Licenses begin on date of enrollment and conclude 12 months later
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Bulk License

Five team Silver licenses to use with a client and package or charge how you wish:
  All 28 learning paths and 84 badges
  Onboarding done for you
  Live team launch party!
  Access to your client's engagement data

$ 6,000 /5 pack

  • Published value of $2,400
  • Can be combined with any services, coaching, or analysis that you already offer.
  • Licenses begin on date of enrollment and conclude 12 months later

Merit® Core Platform + Custom Content

- Full learning experience for all team members
  - Implementation planning session and live launch party
  - Onboarding & learner management included
  - Team engagement data
  - Anytime customer support
  - Seasonal leadership roundtables
  - Custom content, shared across your entire network

$ 6,000 /year

  • +plus $1000 per nonprofit team
  • Access to the full Merit® experience for the full team
  • Access to their team’s engagement data
  • 12 months of access from the date of their launch party
  • 50% discount on all Nonprofit Help Center products & services
New Program!

Certificate in Nonprofit Capacity Building

One year of Merit® access plus our signature Certificate in Nonprofit Capacity Building upon completion of program requirements!

$ 799

  • Certificate Requirements
  • Full completion of all learning paths
  • Completion of all workbook exercises
  • Commitment to one Personal Learning Plan from each of the 6 capacity areas

Monthly Subscription

Get full access to all 28 learning paths in a flexible pay as you go plan.

$69/mo

$ 49 /mo

  • Immediate access to 250+ courses
  • Monthly learner interactive session
  • Immersive instructional format designed for adult learners
  • 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
Every Merit annual plan includes:
On-Demand Microlearning

Anytime, anywhere web-based professional development across 28 learning paths. No more time-off requests or mileage reimbursements for great training.

Space for the Whole Crew

Pricing is by team, not by seat, so bring on your part-timers, your newbies, and everyone in-between. Everyone deserves access to quality learning!

Engagement Features Keep the Conversation Going

Interactive personal workbooks, personal learning plans, an online community, and badges make pro dev fun (and incentivizable!).

How is Merit different?

We believe everyone deserves equitable access to quality nonprofit professional development.

With this in mind, you'll find that our approach differs from other online learning platforms. Use our comparison tool to see how we stack up!

  • Flat-Rate Pricing

    A full-year, budget-friendly, full team flat rate pricing model

  • Standards Alignment

    Alignment to the industry-standard nonprofit capacity assessment, the iCAT, and the Korn Ferry Institute's Leadership Architect competency model

  • Team Analytics

    Reporting and metrics for how your team is progressing on the platform available to nonprofit management

  • Structured Learning Approach

    A structured microlearning learning model, following Bloom's Taxonomy, to ensure that real learning happens

  • Accessible Formats

    With different learning styles served, each learner and team gets tons of personalized help and encouragement!

  • Psychological Foundations

    The use of organizational and leadership psychology in the design, built on Team Merit's combined 35 years of actual nonprofit leadership.