AI for Nonprofits: Your Generalist Colleague is Here to Help

“I know I should probably be using AI, but I haven’t gotten around to it.”

If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone.

Many non-profits we work with are overwhelmed with their daily tasks. Jumping from fixing one thing to another. With an ever-growing to-do list, why should you consider diving in to AI for non-profits?

Lets zoom out a second, in our experience, non-profit staff are passionate, smart, subject matter experts. They are specialists in their field trying to make the world a little better.

I know a lot of non-profit staff would love extra resources. Ideally experienced who know a decent amount about a wide range of topics and how to apply it. This is where AI can fit in.

Think of AI as your generalist colleague. There to support specialist people like those in non-profits. There to speed up repetitive tasks, provide fresh perspectives and help with everyday challenges

Here’s the truth: AI isn’t just for big companies. It’s a practical, affordable resource designed to help you do more, faster.

Here’s how AI can fit into your workflow:

  • Need to apply a finance concept to your project? AI can help.

  • Want to understand cybersecurity basics? AI can explain.

  • Looking for questions to vet potential suppliers? AI can suggest some.

  • Drafting impact evaluation questions? AI can brainstorm with you.

  • Need a second opinion on an idea? AI can provide a fresh perspective.

  • Want help articulating your position on an issue? AI can assist in formulating it.

This isn’t an exhaustive list, we could go on. AI is a versatile tool available 24/7, often at no cost. It’s patient, doesn’t judge and is happy to explain concepts many times or in simpler terms. AI can help you learn, review and tackle day-to-day tasks more efficiently.

AI For Non-Profits – Getting Started

When adopting any new technology, especially when you are time poor, its important to take things slow. Here are a few practical tips to get started:

  1. Start Small. Pick one task, it might be helping word an email or generating social media captions. Experiment with AI tools to get comfortable.

  2. Start Discussing with Your Team. Some of team may already be using AI. Start discussing AI to build familiarity across your organisation.

  3. Experiment with Prompts: Good input leads to great output. Try rephrasing questions or refining prompts for better responses. We’ll be sharing more information on prompt-writing over the coming weeks.

Free AI Tools for Nonprofits

You can actually do a lot without having to spend any money, here are 4 tools to get you started:

  1. ChatGPT (OpenAI)

  2. Google Gemini

  3. Claude

  4. Microsoft CoPilot

AI can help nonprofits break free from reactive workflows and focus on what really matters—delivering impact. With the right tools, even the smallest nonprofit can work smarter and unlock opportunities that once seemed out of reach.

How has AI changed the way you work? Share your story—it might inspire others to take the first step toward more efficient, data-driven operations.

Our Technology and Automation Services for Non-Profits

Automated Beneficiary Maturity Assessment

Creating meaningful connections with your beneficiaries and understanding their progress is essential to fulfilling your mission. Yet, the demands of tracking, analysing and reporting this data is a massive ask for busy non-profits. What if you could automate this process, enabling you to capture real-time data, improve service delivery and demonstrate your impact effortlessly?

We provide non-profit beneficiary maturity assessment automation services. We help you create automated assessments that engage your beneficiaries, provide personalised results, track their progress over time and collect actionable data to enhance your programs.

Affordable Automation for Non-Profits

Our non-profit automation solutions are designed to help you do more with less, drive digital transformation and scale effectively. With our tools and expertise, you can streamline your processes, improve efficiency and free up valuable time and resources.

Our solutions are specifically tailored to non-profits, so you don’t need a large team or a big budget to make them work. We’ll help you scale your impact with tools that grow with you.

We offer a range of different services to help you find the right processes and operations to be automated.

Non-Profit Impact Measurement Tools

We specialise in helping small to mid-sized non-profits streamline their impact measurement, data collection and reporting processes. We understand that non-profits can often lack the resources to collect, analyse and report data efficiently. That’s where we come in—with affordable, scalable solutions designed specifically for non-profits.

Non-profit impact measurement tools don’t need to be overwhelming or expensive. We’ll customise our modular tools to enable you to automate data collection and reporting, saving time, reducing workload and providing insights that make a difference to your stakeholders.

Non-Profit Impact Visualisation Services

As stakeholder expectations evolve, they increasingly demand clear evidence of the impact their contributions are making. Non-profits that can’t quickly and efficiently demonstrate their social impact risk losing funding and stakeholder trust. By implementing our data visualisation tools, you’ll be able to:

  • Strengthen Relationships with Stakeholders by showing them the measurable impact of your work.
  • Communicate More Effectively with your community and stakeholders, using clear, visual data that makes your impact resonate.
  • Enhance Decision-Making by using data-driven insights to guide improvements to your programs and initiatives.