ACE-AR-12BeginnerTier 2 · Practical
AI for Non-Profit Organisations
Explore practical AI uses for non-profit teams, from administration and communications to research and supporter engagement.
What you’ll explore
- Choose a free or low-cost AI tool, identify where AI saves the most time in their organisation, and protect donor and beneficiary confidentiality by deciding what may and may not be pasted into an AI tool
- Use AI to research funding bodies and draft grant applications with sound structure, tone and evidence, without letting it invent grants, figures or outcomes
- Adapt one true core narrative for multiple funders and audiences, and write appeals, thank-you letters and donor updates efficiently
- Generate honest impact reports, outcome summaries and stakeholder communications from programme data, framed for the right audience and including real human stories with consent
- Build AI workflows for regular non-profit tasks such as meeting minutes, volunteer materials and procedures, and capture them as a personal five-task AI plan
Course outline
01Where to Start: Free Tools, Donor Confidentiality and Your Time Audit60 min
02Grant Research and Drafting: Finding Funders, Structure, Tone and Evidence60 min
03One Core Narrative, Many Funders: Adaptation and Fundraising Communications60 min
04Impact Reporting and Communications: Turning Programme Data into Honest Stories60 min
05Operational Efficiency and Your AI Task Plan: Minutes, Volunteers, Procedures and Where to Start60 min
Who it’s for
Non-profit staff in communications, fundraising and programme roles Executive directors and managers of small to medium non-profits Volunteer coordinators and community engagement staff