Free for nonprofit organizations · Up to 15 available
Find where AI can actually save your nonprofit meaningful time and money.
You and your team have been asked to do more with less for years. Your Nonprofit AI Action Plan will be created by a longtime ED to identify where AI could actually take recurring work off your team’s plate—and what’s worth implementing first.
Offered free, as part of Proimpact’s mission to help nonprofit EDs put AI to practical, sustainable use.
YOUR NONPROFIT AI ACTION PLAN
A customized plan for what to implement—and how.
We’ll identify the AI opportunities most likely to create meaningful value for your organization, prioritize what’s worth doing first, and turn those recommendations into a practical implementation plan.
IDENTIFY & PRIORITIZE OPPORTUNITIES
Grant & funder research
Likely value: High
Complexity: Low–Medium
Priority:
#1
Google Ad Grant management
Likely value: High
Complexity: Medium
Priority:
#2
Board prep: Meetings and communications
Likely value: Moderate–High
Complexity: Low
Priority:
#3
MONTH-BY-MONTH IMPLEMENTATION ROADMAP
Month 1
Month 2
Google Ad Grant management
Month 3
Board prep: Meetings and communications
PRACTICAL GUIDANCE & SAFEGUARDS
Every recommendation includes:
What to implement · Why it matters · Setup steps · What to test · Responsible-use safeguards
Illustrative example only. Your Action Plan will be customized around your organization’s actual priorities, systems, and opportunities.
ABOUT THE PEOPLE BEHIND THIS
Built for EDs, by a longtime ED.
Greg Harrell-Edge spent nine years as Executive Director of CoachArt, where he helped build an internal platform that reduced the staff time required to match a volunteer with a student from more than seven hours to under seven minutes.
During those years, genuinely useful free resources made a real difference. Proimpact exists to make that same kind of practical support available to other nonprofit leaders.
Recognized for nonprofit innovation
Anthem Awards · Timmy Awards — Best Tech for Good · Classy Awards
A complete Action Plan you can actually use on your own.
Each selected organization receives prioritized recommendations, a month-by-month implementation roadmap, and practical DIY guidance.
Greg Harrell-Edge
Executive Director, Proimpact Project
NOT ANOTHER AI SOFTWARE PITCH
Start with the capability you need—not a product someone wants to sell you.
More and more nonprofit software is adding AI, and there’s a growing category of specialized AI tools for grants, fundraising, marketing, and other functions. Some of them can be useful.
But your Action Plan won’t assume the answer is another single-purpose software subscription. We’ll also look for opportunities to build reusable workflows, assistants, automations, and systems around the way your organization actually works.
That might mean setting up an organizational ChatGPT or Claude workspace, connecting tools you already use, building new workflows, or occasionally recommending specialized software when it genuinely adds enough value.
The goal is to build AI capability your organization can use, adapt, and improve over time—not just rent another AI feature.
Most nonprofits are using AI. Very few have turned it into a repeatable way of working.
A lot of what gets pitched to nonprofits as AI right now is donor-finding bots and prospecting tools — so it’s easy to assume that’s what the future looks like. It’s not. For most organizations, the real opportunity is smaller and more practical: automations and integrations inside the systems you already run, saving real time on the recurring work that eats your week.
92%
of nonprofits surveyed are using AI in some capacity.
4%
have documented, repeatable AI workflows.
7%
report major strategic impact from AI.
The gap isn’t adoption. It’s moving from scattered individual use to a deliberate, organization-wide approach that produces meaningful results.
Source: Virtuous + Fundraising.AI, 2026 Nonprofit AI Adoption Report — benchmark study of 346 nonprofit organizations surveyed in December 2025.
EXAMPLE OPPORTUNITIES
What might show up on your Action Plan?
Every Action Plan is customized, but these are examples of the kinds of workflows we may identify.
Grant + funder research
Now: staff manually track and vet funders.
With AI: it finds and summarizes fit for each one.
You decide: which to actually pursue.
Result: more time on the application itself.
Donor research
Now: staff research prospects one by one.
With AI: it gathers and organizes public information.
You decide: whom to cultivate.
Result: more time for real donor relationships.
Content production
Now: one idea, recording, or report exists.
With AI: it drafts coordinated blog, email, social, and video content.
You decide: what to publish.
Result: more content, less rewriting.
Google Ad Grant management
Now: Many nonprofits pay an outside provider each month to manage their Google Ad Grant.
With AI: AI can help with keyword research, campaign analysis, optimization recommendations, reporting, and recurring account-management tasks.
You decide: Staff retain control over strategy, messaging, budgets, and any changes made to the account.
Result: Potential to reduce or eliminate recurring outside-service costs while keeping the grant actively managed.
Board + meeting administration
Now: agendas get built from scratch each time.
With AI: it drafts materials and captures decisions.
You decide: what to send and follow up on.
Result: less prep time, sharper follow-through.
Organizational knowledge
Now: policies and know-how sit in scattered docs.
With AI: it makes them easy to find and reuse.
You decide: how to apply what’s found.
Result: less time hunting, more time doing.
This is especially useful if…
You’re a nonprofit ED/CEO trying to determine where AI could create meaningful organizational value.
Your team is already experimenting with ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or other AI tools but usage still feels scattered.
You see opportunities to save meaningful staff time or reduce recurring expenses but aren’t sure where to start.
You want practical implementation guidance rather than another general AI training.
You’re willing to prioritize a few high-value opportunities rather than try everything at once.
Already using AI? Good.
This isn’t AI 101. The Action Plan is designed to help you move from individual tools and one-off prompts toward repeatable workflows that create measurable value. Organizations that have moved past initial experimentation — but haven’t yet systematized their use — tend to be especially strong candidates.
HOW IT WORKS
A small amount of your time. A customized plan built for you.
1
Apply
Complete the short interest form. It takes about 5 minutes.
2
Talk with Greg
If selected, you’ll have a 45-minute Discovery conversation with Greg about your recurring work, current systems, outside costs, and where your team could most use additional capacity.
3
Get your Action Plan
Proimpact does the analysis afterward and creates a customized Nonprofit AI Action Plan with prioritized opportunities, a month-by-month implementation roadmap, and practical DIY guidance.
A PLAN YOU CAN IMPLEMENT
DIY guidance, with DFY help if you want it.
Every Action Plan includes practical DIY implementation guidance you can use on your own.
If you’d rather have help putting it into practice, we’re also considering optional done-for-you support—from implementing an individual workflow to ongoing help executing the plan.
Use the plan yourself, get help with a specific recommendation, or get more ongoing support if that’s useful to your organization.
Got questions?
Is the Nonprofit AI Action Plan really free?
How much time will this require from me or my team?
Is this useful if we're already using ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, etc.?
Do we need a technical team or a large AI/software budget?
What exactly will we receive?
What happens if we want help implementing it?
How are organizations selected?
What about privacy and sensitive organizational data?
Apply for one of up to 15 free Nonprofit AI Action Plans.
Applications are reviewed as they arrive. Takes about 5 minutes. Submit your interest form by September 18 for initial consideration.
