Using AI for Grant Writing: What It Should Never Touch and What It Does Well
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 on the structured boilerplate language sections of a grant proposal and I recommend using it.
AI Use Cases for Nonprofits: What It Looks Like in Your Field
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.
AI for Small Nonprofits: A Realistic Guide for the ED Who Does Everything
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 and a budget line.
How to Choose AI Tools for Nonprofits Without Wasting Money
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 anything. Search the phrase and you will find list after list, twenty tools, fifty tools, ranked and starred.
AI Accessibility for Nonprofits: What Disability Taught Me
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.
Nonprofit AI Policy: A Practical Guide for Getting Started
Your staff are already using AI. The 2026 Nonprofit AI Adoption Report, a survey of 346 nonprofits from Virtuous and Fundraising.
People-First AI: Why the Tool Comes Last
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 Communications: Where Most Nonprofits Should Start With AI
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 first.
AI in Nonprofit Hiring: Why Keep It Out of the Decision
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 is one of those choices.
The AI Companies Are Talking About the Safety Net. Nonprofits Should Be in That Conversation.
Last week, OpenAI released a policy document titled “Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First.” If you work in the nonprofit sector, it is worth a close read.
The document calls for a public wealth fund to share AI’s economic gains more broadly, fast-response safety net programs to support workers who lose jobs to automation, and investment in job training to help people find their footing as industries change. The document also calls for major investment in the electrical grid to power all of this technology. That will affect communities too, particularly those that host large data centers or deal with rising energy costs. But for this post, we are focusing on the workforce and safety net pieces, because that is where nonprofits are most directly positioned to act.