AI for nonprofits
Practical AI education, governance tools, and implementation support built specifically for mission-driven organizations — from someone who spent a decade in the sector.
No login required on any free tool
The real picture
Most nonprofits have staff using AI every day. Almost none of them have a policy, a shared workflow, or a way to measure whether it's actually helping.
That's not a technology problem. It's a governance and implementation problem. And it creates real risk — inconsistent outputs, undocumented processes, staff making individual decisions that should be organizational ones.
The organizations that get this right don't adopt more tools. They build better systems around the ones they already have.
What we build
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Assessments, policy builders, scorecards, and planning tools built for nonprofit teams. No login, no cost. Start wherever you are.
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A plain-language guide to getting started with AI responsibly. Covers foundations, ethics, real workflows, and where to begin — built for practitioners.
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Half-day virtual sessions for your whole team. Build your AI policy, map your workflows, and leave with a plan you can actually use.
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Dashboards, agentic reporting systems, and AI-driven data workflows built for your organization's specific tools and questions.
Free tools
Nine tools built for nonprofit teams at every stage of AI adoption. Use one or use all of them.
Assessment
AI Readiness Assessment
25 questions across 4 domains. Scored profile and action list.
Evaluation
Vendor Evaluation Scorecard
18 questions, 5 categories. Tiered recommendation by score.
Planning
Use Case Prioritizer
12 questions. Returns a prioritized list of where to start.
Governance
Board Briefing Builder
Board-specific framing. Links to workshop and coaching.
Calculator
AI ROI Estimator
Hours and dollar value by workflow. Tiered CTA by result.
Individual
Personal AI Use Assessment
For individual staff. Points to the field guide and coaching.
Resource
Prompt Starter Kit
Curated prompt library organized by nonprofit function.
Planning
AI Opportunity Finder
Find the highest-value starting points for your specific team.
Agentic Governance Framework
Acceptable use. Data privacy. Disclosure. Every nonprofit AI policy covers those, and they still matter. But AI today can do more than respond when asked — it can send the email, schedule the follow-up, update the record, without a person clicking "go" each time. Most policies were written before that was common. Almost none of them cover it now.
That's the gap this framework closes. It's not a template pulled from a general compliance checklist. It's built specifically for nonprofits, for the moment AI stops waiting on you and starts acting on its own — sometimes called "agentic AI," though the label matters less than the actual question: who's checking it, and when.
DIY
$1,000–$1,500
Every module, the full workbook (Agent Registry, Authority Matrix, Human-in-the-Loop Log, Vendor Vetting), and a self-guided assessment. Work through it at your own pace.
DWY
$5,000–$8,000
A guided assessment, a scored report specific to your organization, and a strategy call to walk through what it means and where to start.
DFY
$10,000–$15,000+
Fully custom: your policy, your workflows mapped and tiered, your staff trained. Built for your organization, not adapted from someone else's.
Not sure which one fits?
Book a call →20 minutes. No pitch. Just a clear read on where your org actually is.
Field guide
A practical, plain-language guide to responsible AI adoption in the social sector. Built for practitioners, not tech experts. Free to download, pay what you can.
Get the Field GuideThe Nonprofit AI Field Guide
ROI estimator
The full estimator walks through six specific workflow areas and calculates hours and dollar value based on your org's size and hourly cost. Built for the board conversation, not a sales pitch.
Try the ROI Estimator →Webinar series
Join the waitlist and tell us which sessions matter most to your team.
Workshop
A virtual workshop built for nonprofit teams. Build your AI policy, map your workflows, and leave with something actionable — not just slides.
Workshops and courses are being rebuilt with current material — launching August/September. Join the waitlist →
Topics in development
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1:1 Coaching
Not sure where to start, or want help implementing AI in your specific context? Coaching sessions are scoped individually based on your role, your org, and what you're trying to do.
What coaching covers
Tool graveyard
Building in public means being honest about what didn't work. These tools were real experiments. Some had the right concept but the wrong implementation. We document them here because the reasoning matters.
The systems should reflect that.
20 minutes. No pitch. Just a clear look at what's in the way.