Free AI resources for nonprofits

Start with the foundations or choose the nonprofit function where you want to make the biggest difference.

Choose resources for your team

Communications & marketing

Audience research, campaigns, content, and marketing workflows.

Fundraising

Funder research, proposals, recurring giving, and partnerships.

Programs

Service design, participant experience, engagement, and impact.

People & HR

Job design, volunteer roles, retention, and engagement.

Operations

Finance, vendors, contracts, compliance, and operational risk.

Leadership & boards

Decision support and responsible AI capacity for leaders.

AI for nonprofits: Start here

Free course: AI for nonprofit organizations

Take a practical introductory course covering nonprofit AI capabilities, tools, prompts, risks, and responsible implementation.

AI for Nonprofits: Quick guide

Get a concise introduction to nonprofit AI benefits, risks, use cases, common myths, and implementation steps.

Most common AI use cases in nonprofit organizations

Explore more than 50 practical nonprofit AI use cases, with examples and ideas your team can adapt.

Best AI tools for nonprofit organizations

Compare useful AI tools for common nonprofit tasks and choose options that fit your needs, budget, and risks.

AI quick-wins to multiply results

Apply ten low-cost AI tactics that can save time and improve everyday nonprofit work.

Roadmap: Steps to implement AI in your organization

Follow a step-by-step roadmap for choosing priorities, running pilots, setting guardrails, and scaling AI responsibly.

AI tools for nonprofits: How to select & implement them

Learn how to evaluate, select, introduce, and review AI tools across your nonprofit.

Checklist: AI tool evaluation & setup

Use a practical checklist to compare an AI tool’s value, cost, privacy, security, accessibility, and setup needs.

Checklist: AI readiness & strategy

Assess whether your nonprofit has the goals, data, skills, governance, and capacity needed for a useful AI initiative.

Responsible AI for nonprofits

Key AI risks for nonprofits & mitigation strategies

Understand the main AI risks for nonprofits and the practical safeguards that can reduce them.

The biggest problems of AI (data and solutions)

Understand the quality, environmental, copyright, privacy, security, and social challenges behind current AI systems.

Template: "AI Policy"

Adapt a nonprofit-focused AI policy template covering approved uses, data, oversight, disclosure, and accountability.

AI Policy creator

Create a tailored first draft of your nonprofit’s AI policy through a guided process.

AI Policy optimizer

Review and strengthen an existing AI policy by identifying gaps, ambiguity, and missing safeguards.

Checklist: AI ethics & risk assessment

Evaluate an AI use for privacy, bias, transparency, human oversight, and potential harm before launch.

Checklist: New AI pilots & projects

Plan a focused AI pilot with a clear problem, owner, success measures, safeguards, and review point.

Best AI tools for nonprofits

Prompt & context engineering

Learn how to give AI clearer instructions, relevant context, examples, and constraints for more useful results.

AI prompt optimizer

Turn a rough request into a clearer, more complete prompt suited to your task and audience.

AI text generation & editing tools

Compare AI tools for drafting, rewriting, summarizing, translating, and editing nonprofit content.

AI image generation & editing tools

Explore AI tools for creating and editing images while considering quality, rights, bias, and brand fit.

AI video generation & editing tools

Explore AI tools that can help nonprofit teams create, edit, caption, and repurpose video.

AI audio generation & editing tools

Explore AI tools for transcription, voice, podcasts, audio cleanup, and accessible content production.

AI research & knowledge management tools

Compare AI tools for research, source synthesis, document search, and organizational knowledge management.

AI data analysis & visualization tools

Explore AI tools that help nonprofits clean, analyze, explain, and visualize data.

AI email & productivity tools

Compare AI tools for drafting email, managing inboxes, taking notes, and supporting everyday productivity.

Local AI tools

Learn when locally run AI may offer more control over privacy, data, customization, or costs.

AI automation and agents for nonprofits

AI automation planner

Map a repeatable workflow and identify which steps are suitable for safe, useful AI automation.

AI automation for nonprofits

Learn the main ways nonprofits can automate work with AI, from simple triggers to multi-step workflows.

AI automation builder

Design an AI-assisted automation with clear inputs, decisions, actions, exceptions, and human checks.

AI inbox automation for nonprofits

Plan safer ways to classify, route, summarize, and draft responses to recurring nonprofit email.

Custom GPT creator

Plan a custom AI assistant with a focused purpose, reliable instructions, useful knowledge, and sensible limits.

Create your own Custom GPTs

Follow a practical guide to building and testing custom GPTs for repeatable nonprofit tasks.

Build world-class AI experts/coaches

Create specialized AI assistants that provide structured guidance, feedback, and reusable expertise.

Optimize anything with AI-assistance

Use a repeatable AI review process to diagnose weaknesses and improve documents, plans, and workflows.

AI agents for nonprofits

Learn what AI agents can do for nonprofits, where they fit, and which safeguards to put in place.

Agent skills, plugins, and connectors

Understand how skills and plugins extend AI agents with reusable instructions, tools, and integrations.