AI Implementation for Nonprofits
AI is moving at a rapid pace, with no signs of slowing down. Its impacts are real, felt, and fraught. Statistics show that your staff is already using the tools. Now is the time to shed light on their use within the organization, understand AI's varied impacts and how it works, and design policies (and/or implementations) that work. If you decide your organization should be using it, I can light your initial steps.
Understand the organization's alignment with AI, as it relates to your mission, privacy, ethics, compliance, and data, among other points of the assessment. Of course, the gap-analysis method here is the same one I've used across a decade of organizational work: document review, structured interviews, findings you validate before finalization.
Staff and board education designed to give you the tools to see the breadth of impact of AI. Sample offerings: “What is AI?,” “Is AI right for us?,” “How can AI work for me?,” and “Can AI be racist?”
What you get: sessions scoped to your team's roles and comfort levels, in formats that fit the use cases and needs of nonprofits.
I've designed and delivered participant-driven learning for nonprofit audiences from 2 to 60. From primary sources to relevant facts, I strive to build trainings around the audience, not the agenda.
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Acceptable-use, data privacy, and disclosure policies your whole organization can understand and implement.
What you get: a stakeholder process, including staff input and leadership review, that produces policy documents that works for wherever your organization is on the question of AI.
Policy that people helped write is policy people follow (and understand). With more than 8 years in facilitating large, complex conversation and negotiation, I guide organizations through consensus-driven processes to develop your policy.
Support at a scale small orgs can afford.
Take an hour to discuss the particulars of AI, as it applies to your organization. Receive direct advising, resources, and better understanding of the AI Landscape for your needs.
Alternatively, join a Learning Community to gain the insight of Trainings, within your budget. Beginning at regular intervals throughout the year, leverage both the understanding and the economies of your peers.
What you get: 1:1 time to navigate AI Implementation for your org, or membership in a facilitated cohort of peer organizations working through the same questions.
I've built peer-learning communities among nonprofit practitioners, partners, and the general public.
There's a shadow over your organization's engagement with AI. In the absence of comprehensive guidance, your staff use AI as a panacea for heavy workloads, without understandings its impacts. Shining a light on AI means understanding the organization's position, articulating its reasoning, and identifying and incorporating existing "shadow use" of AI, as needed.
I invite you to join the conversation. I can guide your organization's understanding of AI, whether it's right for you, and, if it is, how to make best use of it, all on a budget that can work for you. We will maintain community in the conversation, holding space for its desire and impact. And, we will illuminate what AI use looks like for your organization, based upon data, research, and your organization's values.