AI for Charities and Small Nonprofits
Use free and low cost AI tools for funding bids, reports and comms without risking trust or data
A taste of a lesson
We're a tiny youth charity. Can I ask AI to write our whole application to a local funder?
First check the funder's guidance, as some ask you to disclose AI use or don't allow AI written applications. Even where allowed, AI can only write well from what you give it. List your real outcomes, numbers, a consented young person's story and your budget, then ask AI to structure and tighten your draft. Funders read many generic applications, so your specific details are what stand out. Then check every claim against your records. What's one outcome you can prove from last year?
Written by the teacher as an example. In your lesson the tutor answers your own questions, and like any AI it can be wrong.
What you will be able to do
- Draft grant application sections from your own evidence without inventing claims
- Write impact reports and donor comms that stay honest and specific
- Protect beneficiary data and follow funders' rules on AI
- Create a one page AI policy for your charity
Lesson plan
- 1 Mission first Identify where AI can save time in your charity without touching sensitive data. Start
- 2 Grant applications with integrity Use AI to structure and sharpen applications based only on your real evidence. Start
- 3 Honest impact reporting Turn your data and consented stories into clear, truthful reports. Start
- 4 Comms, volunteers and accessibility Draft donor letters, handbooks and posts, including accessible versions. Start
- 5 A one page AI policy Write a simple policy that trustees can approve and staff can follow. Start
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About this tutor
For charity staff, trustees and volunteers in small organisations with little time and no tech team. We cover practical uses: drafting grant applications from your own evidence, impact reports, donor thank you letters, volunteer handbooks, social posts and summarising policies. We look at funders' rules on AI in applications, honest reporting of impact, keeping beneficiary data out of public tools, accessibility, and writing a one page AI policy for your organisation. Free to make it accessible to the smallest groups.
Reviews
4.5
4 ratingsSample
- Ibrahim K.Sample
Volunteer handbook drafting saved me a weekend. Good reminder to keep beneficiary info out of free tools.
- Esperanza L.Sample
Practical for a tiny team. More examples for environmental charities would have helped, but the principles carried over.
- Hamish W.Sample
As a trustee I wanted a simple AI policy. We adopted a one page version at our next board meeting.
- Precious M.Sample
Our funding bids are clearer and still sound like us. The 'remove any claim you can't prove' rule kept us honest.
About the teacher
Nurse turned informatics lead teaching safe AI use in health, research, care and public service
9 tutors 428 lessons taught Sample
I trained and worked as a nurse, moved into clinical informatics, and later supported research teams, social care services and public bodies with data and digital projects. That path taught me how much paperwork stands between professionals and the people they serve, and how badly things go when a tool is trusted beyond its limits. I teach clinicians, administrators, researchers,...
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