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When using AI for grant writing, keep it away from the part of the proposal only your organization can write: why this community, why your organization, why now. Meanwhile, AI can save you significant time…
AI use cases for nonprofits fall into three kinds of work: drafting, summarizing, and reporting. See what each one looks like in five different fields.
You run the programs, write the grants, thank donors, fix the printer, and close the books, sometimes all in the same afternoon. Most advice about AI for small nonprofits assumes you have a tech team…
Here is how to choose AI tools for nonprofits without wasting money: name the task you need done, ask four questions about data, cost, friction, and exit, and run a two-week pilot before you spend…
While I have worked with nonprofits for 25 years, I have had a disability for my entire life. No technology has opened as many doors for me as AI has. That is the part of…
Your staff are already using AI. The 2026 Nonprofit AI Adoption Report, a survey of 346 nonprofits from Virtuous and Fundraising.AI, found that 92 percent of nonprofits now use AI in some form. The same…
People-First AI is an order of operations. Work through mission, staff, and the people you serve first, and the right tool becomes obvious. Here is the order and why most AI advice runs backwards.
Donor communication is the safest, highest-value place for a nonprofit to start with AI. Here are three tasks it handles well, the work it should never touch, and the one privacy caution to get right…
One of the things I have come to appreciate about working in the nonprofit sector is that we get to make choices that other industries often don’t. Where and how we choose to use AI…
There is no universal AI policy template that fits every nonprofit. The right policy for a large urban hospital system looks very different from the right policy for a small community organization.
