PORTSMOUTH — A Google executive will visit Portsmouth June 9 to educate area charitable groups about the company’s Ad Grants program for nonprofits.

The event, scheduled at Great Bay Community College on Corporate Drive at Pease International Tradeport, is being coordinated by the nonprofit Digital Marketing Center.

The event has a twofold purpose, according to Jonathan Day, who created DMC in cooperation with the college and the New England Innovation Center to offer certification programs at the college on online inbound marketing and outbound marketing.

Day said the first purpose is to train local nonprofit organizations on the effective use of AdWords, Google’s advertising service for businesses that want top line exposure in search results. The second is to give these nonprofits an opportunity to qualify for the Ad Grants program that provides $10,000 a month in in-kind AdWords advertising every month.

“The idea is to get as many nonprofits in the room as possible,” said Day, who also runs Sharper Selling, a digital marketing company at 36 Maplewood Ave. “It’s a huge opportunity for them to promote their programs for free.”

Registration is through Eventbrite at www.eventbrite.com/e/google-comes-to-portsmouth-tickets-34694535289. It is scheduled to run from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. with lunch provided by the college’s Green Bean café. The event is free but donations are accepted.

Normally with AdWords, an advertiser pays Google for every click. Ad Grants provides those clicks for free to qualifying nonprofits.

Day said Google AdWords has proven effective as an advertising medium for businesses and organizations. Its advertising revenue in 2016 was $80 billion, according to Day. And the businesses find it effective. “People wouldn’t be investing that kind of money unless they were seeing results,” he said.

The “Google Comes to Portsmouth” event will be taught by Emily Babbitt, a senior account manager on Google's Health Systems team in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Babbitt works primarily with large hospital and behavioral health systems to plan, execute, measure and optimize their digital marketing strategies across all of Google's platforms. She also works on the Google for Nonprofits team focusing on nonprofit outreach and education in the Cambridge and Boston area.

Day was recently selected as one of the Seacoast Media Group’s 10 to Watch recipients, in part for his nonprofit work.