AI for Nonprofits

Your staff are already using AI, in grant drafts, donor emails and meeting notes. Free Focus helps you put simple rules around it, keep donor data safe, and get real value from it, at no cost to 501(c)(3) organizations.

Your AI policy, written with you in one free hour

Templates are easy to find. Turning one into rules your team will actually follow is the hard part. In a single working session we write your policy with you: what data may go into AI tools, who checks AI output before it goes out, which accounts staff use, and how you tell donors and partners about your AI use. You leave with a finished document, not a homework assignment. The session is free for qualified 501(c)(3) nonprofits.

See how the policy session works

What else we offer

Keeping donor data safe

Use your organization's work accounts for AI tools (Microsoft Copilot or Google Gemini signed in with your work login), so your data is not used to train public models.
Never paste donor names, giving history, health details or passwords into a free public chatbot.
Treat every AI answer as a draft: check facts, figures and quotes before anything leaves the building.

Live sessions with an AI expert

Short, practical sessions for staff and boards, taught by a PhD in artificial intelligence who has built AI systems in industry and teaches machine learning at the graduate level.

How AI tools actually work, and where they fail
Getting good results from AI in everyday work
Measuring your programs with the data you already have

Hands-on walkthroughs

Grant and funder research: using Claude with Candid's foundation data, or Perplexity with Charity Navigator.
Ask your own documents: getting answers from your handbook, reports and past proposals safely.
Drafting with care: grant narratives, donor letters and reports that still sound like you.

The best free resources

A short list we recommend, rather than everything that exists.

AI acceptable-use template (Community IT): a starting point for your policy.
AI Suitability Toolkit (NetHope): decide whether a project should use AI at all.
Verify, then trust AI outputs (Community IT): a three-step check before you rely on an answer.
Exploring AI with Microsoft tools (TechSoup): free courses for organizations on Microsoft 365.
AI for Anyone (The Human Stack): an affordable short course for nonprofit staff.
AI for Nonprofits Sprint (Fund for the City of New York): a structured program for teams.
Claude with Candid: research foundations and grants with Candid's data.

Let's talk

Tell us about your organization and what you would like AI to help with. We will reply within a few days.

Book a free 15-minute call

Or email john@freefocus.org