Q1 Grant Research: Use AI to find, vet, and prioritize funders.

​Many funders open new grant cycles in Q1. This hands-on workshop shows nonprofit teams how to use AI to do grant research faster and smarter, even if data and spreadsheets aren't your thing.

​What you'll do:

• ​Find: use AI to surface foundation, corporate, and government funders that match your mission, location, and budget size

• ​Vet: quickly check a funder's priorities, past grantees, and typical award size using public sources like 990s

• ​Prioritize: rank opportunities by fit, effort, and deadline so you know where to spend your time

• ​Plan: map your top picks onto a simple 2027 grant calendar

​You'll leave with:

• ​A ranked shortlist of grants worth pursuing this year

• ​Prompts you can reuse for every future grant search

​Who it's for: executive directors, development staff, grant writers, and board members at small and mid-sized nonprofits. No AI or data experience needed.

​What to bring: a laptop, your mission statement, and a basic sense of your programs and annual budget. Please don't bring donor lists or other sensitive data.

​Hosted by Community Innovations Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on briding the AI gap for underserved communities. Led by Dailin Hu, CEO of SafeLab AI Engineering and former Senior Applied AI Scientist at Blizzard Entertainment.