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Project training, otherwise known as apprenticeship training, is the chance for people to apply what they've learned in their education to a real team with real problem-solving and real clients. Our community offers this because we believe in the practice that counts toward experience building. We believe that teammates cannot do it alone, they must do it together across functions, and they need to decide together. Our roots of this community were started by people joining cross-functional teams to progress in work. At the same time, we've focused a lot of efforts on building training that coaches agile culture on teams. Now, as of 2025, all of our apprenticeship teammates are just "teammates" working together toward a common set of outcomes they agree to themselves. This is their training. People in our community level up and grow professionally through practice and decision making together. The project training we offer is the way they do this.
All of our clients are existing nonprofit organizations with a 501(c)(3) or other nonprofit status. We partner with mission-driven organizations who are motivated to give back to our mission by being a client.
They support our mission by providing a forum for cross-functional teams to build experience together. Together, project trainees and clients work towards solving problems and delivering change in the world.
When we get together with clients, we go through a process of determining who they are, what their mission is, what they're trying to do, and why. We document this in a client intake and provide this on our project dashboard so that everyone in the community can see the goals and outcomes that the nonprofit is trying to achieve.
We encourage clients NOT to require an NDA or confidentiality agreement when working with us, and this is part of our terms of working with the community. We do this because we want our trainees to be able to produce story-driven case studies about their work so that they can showcase their growth.
Our project training teams learn how to solve problems together through service design, strategy, web-based products, and discovery projects. Learn more about the different kinds of projects and the process of completing them in the Project Success Handbook:
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