NGO Partnerships

Expand what your organisation can offer.

Connect the people you support with language practice, professional mentoring and practical skills. Work with TEEI to extend your existing programmes, plan opportunities with other organisations or bring your own programme and expertise to new groups.

Free for participants

Plan opportunities for your participants Contribute a programme or expertise

Only need to share an existing programme? You’ll find the programme links below.

Exampleready for your participants

Presenting a data portfolio

Who this is forThe people you supportfrom your organisation
The programmeSkills Academyrun by TEEI, free for participants
Who leads itA professionalapproved by TEEI
Your teamIntroduces themand keeps supporting them
Once the session is arranged, each participant gets an invitationInvitation: a 90-minute workshop

What each participant receives

Invitation waitingWorkshop90 minutesInvitation only

Presenting a data portfolio

Led by a professional · Approved by TEEI

Accept invitationDeclineSee the session

Example of a Skills Academy invitation

Build on the work you already do

An employment programme can be strengthened by conversation practice. Someone finishing a course may benefit from professional guidance. A community organisation may know what its participants want to learn but need a specialist to teach it.

Start with TEEI’s existing programmes, which are free for participants.

Language practice

TEEI Language connects learners with volunteer conversation partners for one-to-one video sessions. Participants practise speaking for work, study and everyday situations.

Professional mentoring

TEEI Mentorship connects participants with professionals for guidance on career direction, applications, interviews and next steps in their field.

Practical skills

Skills Academy combines live one-to-one support, ongoing mentoring, group classes, webinars and self-paced learning to help participants develop and apply professional skills.

TEEI Language: a learner’s home page
The learner's home in TEEI Language: her goal, her volunteers, and her next session with a volunteer, tomorrow at 13:00
Example account
TEEI Mentorship: choosing a mentor
Meet a mentor in TEEI Mentorship: three professionals with their fields and next available times
Example account
Skills Academy: an invitation to a session
A Skills Academy invitation: Networking with Confidence, a workshop, 90 minutes, Accept invitation
Example account

We can help you identify suitable opportunities, explain how participants join and coordinate introductions where useful.

Contributing a programme or volunteers is not a requirement for receiving support.

Your organisation can seek opportunities, contribute to delivery or do both.

Programme eligibility, participants’ goals and available opportunities guide the starting point.

The programmes are already running.

Programme activity to date.

Sessions completed
12,174
Hours in conversation
9,197
Countries with members
148

Measured on TEEI’s platform, 27 Sep 2026, 10:07 UTC. See the source ↗

Five ways to work together

  1. Add to a programme you already run

    Introduce suitable language practice, mentoring or skills opportunities alongside your existing services. Your team continues its work with participants while the additional support addresses a related need, such as practising workplace conversations during an employment programme.

  2. Offer a next step when a programme ends

    Help participants identify what comes next before a course or support programme finishes. That could mean continuing their learning, applying a new skill or seeking guidance from a relevant professional as they work towards their next goal.

  3. Bring people together for specialist support

    Connect participants with similar needs through a focused workshop, clinic or expert session. Interview practice, portfolio feedback or a practical skills session may be easier to arrange when several organisations form a group together.

  4. Take your programme to more groups

    Explore delivering a programme you already run to additional participants through collaboration. We agree who teaches, how materials may be used and what support is needed. Your organisation retains ownership of its programme and helps shape how it reaches new groups.

  5. Help create an opportunity that is missing

    Tell us about a need that current opportunities do not meet. We can explore whether a shared group, another delivery partner, specialist expertise or additional funding could help make a suitable programme possible.

Your programmeProgrammeParticipantsDeliveryTEEI Languagealongside yoursYours, plus a TEEIprogramme alongsideYours, takingpart in bothYou run yours; TEEIruns its ownyour programme endsTEEI Mentorshipthe next stepParticipants cancontinue learning ina TEEI programmeYoursTEEI, once yourprogramme endsYour organisationAnother organisationA third organisationOne groupA suitable programmefrom TEEI or a partnerEach organisation supports its own participantsTEEI coordinates the groupWhichever suitsthe group bestFrom severalorganisationsThe agreed lead;TEEI coordinatesyour programmea new groupanotheranotherTEEI introduces groupsyou do not reach yetYours, and itstays yoursNew groups thatTEEI works withYou teach, or someoneyou train, as agreedNot agreed yetit may build on anexisting programmeone possibilitya shared groupanother delivery partnerspecialist expertiseadditional fundinga programme that existsNot agreed yet; it maybuild on one that existsYours, or severalorganisations’Agreed as partof the plan

Your organisationTEEINot agreed yet

What becomes possible together

Illustrative example

Imagine several organisations each supporting a few people who need help presenting a data portfolio.

Another organisation has a suitable short programme. A professional can lead the session. Local teams can help participants prepare, find a suitable space and join online.

Working with TEEI, they could combine those contributions into a shared group that none would have arranged alone. The programme owner brings the teaching approach, the specialist brings practical experience and each organisation supports its own participants.

A need that was difficult to meet separately becomes something they can organise together.

Illustrative example: a shared workshopdescribing the need

Presenting a data portfolio

Who this is for9 peoplefrom three organisations
Teaching approachA short programmefrom the organisation that runs it
Session leadA professionalbrings the practical experience
Participant preparationLocal teamseach supports its own participants
Once the session is arranged, each participant gets an invitation

What each participant receives

Invitation waitingWorkshop90 minutesInvitation only

Presenting a data portfolio

Led by a professional · Approved by TEEI

Accept invitationDeclineSee the session

Example of a Skills Academy invitation

How a collaboration starts

  1. 1.

    Tell us what you need or could contribute

    Describe the people you support, an opportunity they are looking for or something your organisation could bring. You do not need a finished proposal.

    You receive a reply by email with a suggested starting point.

  2. 2.

    Find a useful starting point

    We look at relevant existing programmes or discuss a shared delivery option. Sometimes the right answer is a straightforward introduction. Sometimes it is a group or activity planned together.

  3. 3.

    Agree how it will work

    Before confirming delivery, we agree the participant group, responsibilities, timing and resources.

    Where additional delivery needs funding or specialist support, that forms part of the plan.

  4. 4.

    Coordinate delivery and next steps

    TEEI coordinates introductions and follow-up. Sessions are led by your instructor, a partner or a TEEI professional, as agreed. Your team continues to support its participants, who choose which opportunities to pursue next.

Your enquirythe form belowA reply, by emailwith a suggestedstarting pointThe planagreed togetherfunding or specialistsupport, if neededDeliveryled by the agreed leadYour participantsEach gets an invitationand decides whetherto take part
Your organisationTEEIBothThe agreed leadIf needed
Go to the enquiry form ↓

Contribute a programme or expertise

Your organisation may already have something that could be useful to more people: a course, curriculum, teaching approach, experienced instructors, mentors or specialist knowledge. A venue, equipment or staff who can help participants join can also make delivery possible.

Skills Academy: the session page participants seeExample account
The session page in Skills Academy: Practical AI for Job Seekers, taught by Ingrid Hoffmann, Provided by Nordhagen Adult Learning, Approved by TEEI

1Your organisation is credited as the programme provider.

2TEEI-approved instructor.

Your organisation remains the owner of its programme.

Work with TEEI to explore suitable participant groups, complementary expertise and the practical arrangements for delivering together. A programme could reach a new group without your organisation having to establish every local relationship itself.

We agree how materials are used, who delivers each part and how contributions are recognised.

You can contribute in one area while seeking opportunities in another. An organisation might share its digital-skills expertise while looking for language practice or mentoring for the people it supports.

Contribute a programme or expertise

Share existing opportunities

Sometimes all you need is a useful programme to pass on. You can share TEEI’s public programme information with your community without arranging a formal partnership. Use the relevant page to explain the opportunity and direct people to its own joining process.

TEEI Language

Explore language practice

TEEI Mentorship

Explore professional mentoring

Skills Academy

Explore Skills Academy

For help introducing a participant group or planning something together, use the enquiry form below.

Tell us what the people you support need.

What would help them take their next step? Tell us about the need, the people you support and what you would like to make possible.

Have a programme or expertise to share? We welcome that too.

Your enquiry

Presenting a data portfolio

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