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.
What “People-First AI” Means For The People You Serve
Every nonprofit organization exists because someone, somewhere, needs support that they are struggling to provide for themselves. A family navigating a housing crisis. A young person who needs a mentor. An individual living with a disability. A community working to recover from something.