Do more good with less effort — using AI

If you work in the nonprofit world, I already know something about you: you care deeply, you're stretched thin, and there is never enough time in the day to do justice to all the work that matters. You're writing grant narratives after hours, cobbling together volunteer schedules in spreadsheets, and sending donor emails you're not quite happy with because the good version would have taken another two hours you don't have.

I built this school because I kept seeing talented, mission-driven people convinced that AI was "not for them" — too technical, too risky, too corporate. And I understood that feeling. The way AI gets talked about in the media and in tech circles can make it sound like something that belongs to Silicon Valley, not to the people running food pantries, youth programs, immigrant services, and community health initiatives. That framing is wrong, and it's holding a lot of good people back.

Here's what I know to be true: AI tools, used thoughtfully, are some of the most powerful capacity-building resources the nonprofit sector has ever had access to — and most of them are free or close to it. You don't need a data science degree. You don't need a dedicated IT person. You need to know what to ask, how to ask it, and how to review what comes back with your own good judgment. That's exactly what this school teaches.

Every lesson is built around real nonprofit tasks — drafting a grant narrative, preparing a board report, turning a volunteer's story into an impact statement, explaining AI to a skeptical funder. We cover the ethics and privacy questions you absolutely should be asking. We help you figure out which tools fit your organization rather than telling you there's one right answer. And we help you build a personal workflow that you can actually open up and use on a regular Monday morning, not just when you're feeling ambitious.

I'm not here to turn you into a tech person. I'm here to give you one more powerful tool in service of the mission you've already committed your work to. Come as you are — curious, a little skeptical, maybe a little tired — and let's figure this out together.