AI for Non-Profits: Practical AI Guidance for CEOs and Senior Leaders
Event description
AI is already showing up in nonprofit work.
People are using it to draft, summarise, plan, research and rewrite, whether or not their organisation has agreed how it should be used.
That means AI can become embedded before anyone has agreed what is safe, useful or appropriate. Sensitive information may be put into public tools. Answers that sound confident may be wrong. People may be using AI without anyone else knowing what is happening.
This is not just a technology issue. It affects trust, safety, fairness, workload and accountability.
This free, practical session is for nonprofit CEOs and senior leaders who want to understand what tools such as ChatGPT and Claude actually do, where they can help, where they can go wrong and what leaders need to ask about their use.
We’ll cover
AI and large language models, in plain English
Where AI may already be appearing, including informal or “shadow” use
Why AI is a leadership, governance, inclusion and trust issue
Key risks around sensitive information, safeguarding, bias and misinformation
Practical, lower-risk uses that can reduce the work around the work
You’ll leave with
A clearer understanding of AI and its limits
A practical way to think about AI risk
Clearer boundaries around what should and should not go into a free or public AI tool
Practical questions to take back to staff, trustees and volunteers
A clearer sense of where human judgement, checking and accountability need to remain
This is not a tool demonstration, prompt workshop or full AI policy session. You do not need to become an AI expert or arrive with all the answers.
The aim is to build shared understanding, ask better questions, set sensible boundaries and work out what needs attention next.
Who should come
Nonprofit CEOs, chief executives and senior leaders who want to understand what AI means for their organisation and what needs to happen next.
It is useful whether your organisation is already experimenting, has informal use underway or has not agreed a position yet.
You do not need technical experience or prior knowledge of AI.
About us
AI for Nonprofits is led by Katie Vincent and Kirsty Passmore, former nonprofit chief executives with formal AI training at distinction level and decades of experience in nonprofit leadership, organisational change and governance.
Kirsty leads the strategy sessions. Katie leads the practical sessions. We both lead the bootcamp and the Where to Start with AI sessions.