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Training, strategy, & insights to expand your AI strategy.
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Streaming Live and Fully Interactive Online Summit.
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Sessions are recorded and available to stream on demand.
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Attendees get access to a private group with Summit Resources, Recordings, and Resources.
AI for Nonprofits and Advocacy Summit
Join our next online Summit April 8th - 10th
The 3-day Summit is completely online to make it accessible to organizations everywhere.
We'll have sessions for people completely new to AI and for those already deeply involved.
Free access to live sessions and the Summit+ Pass to access recordings, resources, and the private community.
Join our next online Summit
April 8th - 10th
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Training, strategy, & insights to expand your AI strategy.
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Streaming Live and Fully Interactive Online Summit.
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Sessions are recorded and available to stream on demand with Summit+ Pass
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Summit+ Pass attendees get access to a private group with Summit Resources, Recordings, and Resources.
AI for Nonprofits and Advocacy Summit
AI for Nonprofits and Advocacy Summit
Join our next online Summit
April 8th - 10th
The 3-day Summit is completely online to make it accessible to organizations everywhere.
We'll have sessions for people completely new to AI and for those already deeply involved.
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Training, strategy, & insights to expand your AI strategy.
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Streaming Live and Fully Interactive Online Summit.
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Sessions are recorded and available to stream on demand with Summit+ Pass
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Summit+ Pass attendees get access to a private group with Summit Resources, Recordings, and Resources.
Sessions
Daily sessions:
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Daily sessions April 8th, 9th, and 10th
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Sessions occur between 12 ET / 9 am PT and 6 ET / 3 PT
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Sessions include panels, case studies, strategy sessions, training, and workshops. — All to help your organization make a bigger impact on your goals with AI.
Winning AI strategies, immediately applicable to nonprofits and advocacy organizations.
Tactics and case studies from organizations leading in social impact.
A digital-first experience — not a half-hearted stream from an in-person event.
Connect where you are with leaders and peers around teh world.
Designed for busy professionals and teams.
Easy access to resources, and watch on-demand for the sessions you can’t make.
Access to every speaker in Q&A and extensive options for follow-up and connection.
Paid attendees get access to a community group.
What to expect from a 3 Day Online AI Summit?
Purposely designed for Nonprofits, Civic and Advocacy Organizations, Social Impact Organizations, Political Campaigns, Charities, Labor Unions, Foundations and their Grantees, Educational Institutions, Governmental Agencies, and International Organizations
Winning AI strategies, immediately applicable to nonprofits and advocacy organizations.
Tactics and case studies from organizations leading in social impact.
A digital-first experience — not a half-hearted stream from an in-person event.
Connect where you are with leaders and peers around teh world.
Designed for busy professionals and teams.
Easy access to resources, and watch on-demand for the sessions you can’t make.
Access to every speaker in Q&A and extensive options for follow-up and connection.
Paid attendees get access to a community group.
What to expect from a 3 Day Online AI Summit?
Purposely designed for Nonprofits, Civic and Advocacy Organizations, Social Impact Organizations, Political Campaigns, Charities, Labor Unions, Foundations and their Grantees, Educational Institutions, Governmental Agencies, and International Organizations
AI for Nonprofits
and Advocacy
Summit
Wednesday
April 8th
The State of AI for Nonprofits and Advocacy
2 ET / 11 am PT
Brad Caldana
Founder @ Center for Digital Strategy
Leading AI Strategy Events for Organizations
Catharine Montgomery
Founder and CEO @ Better Together Agency
Aram Fischer
Co-Founder & CEO @ Change Agent AI
Key Takeaways:
• Real takes from strategists on the state of AI for Nonprofits and Advocacy
• Making sense of all of the noise and daily updates.
Social Media Amplification Using AI
3 ET / 12 PT
Nora Brothal
Founder and CEO
Arka Pana Consulting
Key Takeaways:
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Turn supporters into multipliers, not just audience members
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Streamline coalition communications
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Demonstrations of AI tools SoSha, Lovable, and Change Agent
Details:
After this session, you'll be able to build a social media amplification system that scales authentic voice, protects your organization's brand, and makes it easier for your audience to take action. This session showcases practical workflows that turn supporters into messengers, ease the manual burden of coalition amplification on social, and leverage purpose-built AI that understands your mission, not just generic prompts. You'll see live demonstrations of SoSha's supporter mobilization toolkits, a custom-built daily social media digest that curates relevant content automatically, and a purpose-driven LLM. Leave with replicable strategies that balance speed with authenticity—because in 2026, winning on social media goes far beyond content volume.
3 ways I’m advancing (& protecting) my creative team
4 ET / 1 PT
Katy Hinz
Creative Director @ Teal Media
Key Takeaways:
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Shift from Designer to Director: Transition your mindset to focus on curation and art direction, using AI to execute specific visions while maintaininng humanity.
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Combat "AI Slop" with Authenticity: Protect your brand by prioritizing human-led creativity and using AI only to enhance—rather than replace—the "made for humans" quality of your work
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Explore a Multi-Model Workflow: Maximize efficiency by matching specific creative tasks to the right "power tool," utilizing specialized models for vector design, photorealism, and cinematic video.
Details:
Nonprofits have historically lagged behind corporations in creative and communication capacity due to smaller budgets and teams. However, in the era of AI, these small, nimble teams are actually a strategic asset. This session explores how to move beyond the fear of replacement to a future where your communications team is "promoted" to the role of director. By shifting the focus from manual execution to curation and art direction, comms leads can use AI to amplify their mission’s unique point of view while avoiding the generic pitfalls of "AI slop". We will dive into a tactical roadmap for integrating AI into your workflow and explore "AI power tools" designed to build faster, scalable workflows that move your mission forward. Who should attend? This session is designed for communications managers, senior leaders, and content creators who are tasked with turning information-rich advocacy into engaging digital storytelling. Whether you are a solo practitioner or leading a small department, you’ll leave with a framework for integrating AI that protects your brand’s authenticity while advancing your team’s strategic impact.
AI Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Interleaved Tool-Calling and the Rest of the Latest and Greatest in AI
2 ET / 11 am PT
Aram Fischer
Co-Founder & CEO @ Change Agent AI
Key Takeaways:
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AI for Nonprofits
and Advocacy
Summit
Thursday
April 9th
Beyond AI Slop and Automation: What a Purpose-Built AI Tools Can Do for Real Organizing - Graphics Deep Dive
12 ET / 9 am PT
Ned Howey
CEO and Co-Founder @ Tectonica Digital Campaign Solutions
Mariana Spada
Chief Creative Officer @ Tectonica Digital Campaign Solutions
Key Takeaways:
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What "designed friction" looks like — AI that coaches and pushes back instead of just generating whatever you ask for
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How to keep brand, ethics, and safety consistent at scale when your people are already using AI without you
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How purpose-built AI can give supporters the tools to organize effectively — without replacing human relationships
Details:
Your organizers are already using ChatGPT and other Big Tech AI to make graphics. You know it. They know it. The results? Off-brand, off-strategy, and occasionally dangerous. The problem isn't using AI. It's that generic AI has no idea what your campaign is trying to accomplish. It doesn't know your brand, your audience, or that organizing strategy isn't just marketing. It doesn't ask what platform you're posting on, whether you have consent to use a photo, or whether your headline is too long for an Instagram story. It just generates whatever you ask for — without the strategic context that makes the output actually useful. This session is a deep dive into what a purpose-built AI graphic creation tool looks like when it's designed for organizing — not commerce. We'll give attendees a sneak peek at our graphic creation tool, soon available for free for Change Agent users, and show how it's built on the knowledge from 600+ projects to collaborate with users rather than just execute commands. We'll also frame where this fits within a larger vision: a suite of AI tools designed to coach people through everything needed to run effective supporter groups — all customized to each organization's strategy. The graphic tool is the first fully functional piece. Others are in development. The core design philosophy is "designed friction." This system slows you down at the right moments — asking who this is for, what you want them to do, whether you've considered the risks. It coaches, pushes back, and guides. That's not a bug — that's organizing strategy embedded into how the tool thinks.
AI doesn't need to replace relationships — it can give people the tools to build more of them. That's the difference between generic AI that automates and purpose-built AI that elevates.
Not a bot: How nonprofits can use AI without losing their voice, their data, or their community's trust
1 ET / 10 am PT
Catharine Montgomery
Founder and CEO @ Better Together Agency
Key Takeaways:
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Generic AI tools don't know your organization, your voice, your programs, or the communities you serve. Getting real value from AI means using a tool trained on your own materials.
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Staff are already using AI, whether you have a policy. The question is whether you will manage it before something goes wrong.
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Responsible AI adoption isn't the slow path. It's the right path. Organizations that build clear governance, give every team member access to the right tools, and measure ROI beyond dollars are the ones that will earn community trust.
Details:
Most nonprofits are already using AI. Staff is drafting communications in ChatGPT, summarizing case notes with Copilot, and pasting text into tools their organization never approved. The adoption is happening. The readiness isn't. This session is a practical, honest conversation about what it actually takes to use AI responsibly in a nonprofit, from the first staff member who tries it on their own to the moment leadership decides to make it official. We'll work through the three gaps that keep nonprofits stuck between using AI and being ready for it: — The rules gap: Staff are using AI tools with zero guardrails. No clear line on what's private. No clear line on what data can never leave your walls. That's how client stories leak, how donor data ends up in the wrong place, and how trust breaks. — The voice gap: Generic AI tools give every organization the same answer. A union, a health clinic, and a food bank have completely different communication needs. Getting real value from AI means using a tool trained on your own materials. — The trust gap: What your funders, community members, and staff need to see before they trust what AI produces on your behalf, and how to build that from the inside out. — Participants will leave with a clear picture of where their organization stands, what to fix first, and what responsible AI adoption looks like in practice, not in theory. This session is structured as a facilitated discussion. Come ready to talk about where your organization actually is.
Authenticity and Automation: AI and Its Role in Nonprofit Storytelling Online
3 ET / 12 PT
Ouassim Sadellah
CIO/Founder @ IndieTech Solutions
Seth Jacobs
Director of Digital Strategy @ IndieTech Solutions
Key Takeaways:
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Using AI effectively while maintaining authenticity and audience trust.
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Dos and don'ts for using AI in public-facing nonprofit content.
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A demonstration and resource guide for practical AI tools and tips
Details:
As nonprofits explore AI-powered tools to create and scale content, the challenge has become how to use AI without losing the human stories at the heart of the work. This session will explore how to effectively integrate AI into your content workflows while maintaining authenticity, credibility, and audience trust. We’ll cover practical dos and don’ts for using AI in public-facing storytelling, along with sharing useful tools and real-world examples. Attendees will leave with clear guidelines, actionable tips, and resources to confidently use AI in a way that strengthens their mission and voice while maintaining the reputation they rely on
Using Agentic AI to Run Affordable Influencer Campaigns
4 ET / 1 PT
Ryan Davis
CEO and Founder @ People First & Val
Valerie Cheney
Partner & VP of Influencer @ People First & Val
Key Takeaways:
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The steps to running a traditional influencer campaign.
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How agentic AI can make creator campaigns faster and easier.
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How emerging apps like Val are changing the old influencer landscape.
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Agentic AI is making influencer marketing accessible to organizations that previously could not afford it. By automating creator discovery, outreach, and campaign coordination, AI agents can manage much of the work that once required large teams and expensive agencies. Nonprofits, advocacy groups, and mission driven organizations can now run effective creator campaigns at a fraction of the traditional cost. Platforms like Val demonstrate how this technology can scale trusted voices and expand impact.
AI for Nonprofits
and Advocacy
Summit
Friday
April 10th
Clarity Before Scale: How to Build a Practical, Responsible and Scalable AI Practice
12 ET / 9 am PT
Ryann Milller
Founder @ Spark and Signal
Key Takeaways:
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Recognize the patterns of uncoordinated AI use and the organizational risks they create
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Apply a simple framework for evaluating AI decisions against your organization's values and mission
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Leave with a practical starting point for building shared values-based understanding, criteria, and guardrails with your team
Details:
Nonprofits are using AI everywhere...except in any coordinated way. One person has a ChatGPT tab open. Someone else is avoiding it entirely. Leadership wants to "implement AI" but doesn't explain what that means. The result is shadow use, hesitation, and real confusion about what responsible, intentional AI use actually looks like in practice. So much AI discourse perpetuates the hype/fear/hype/fear tug of war from hell. This session doesn't do that. This session assumes you're already using AI and trying to figure out the organizational layer. I'll give you the step that makes your tactics stick. We'll focus on moving from scattered experimentation to shared clarity: common language, simple & effective criteria for evaluating AI decisions, and guardrails your team can actually follow. Through real examples, we'll look at what values-based AI use looks like in practice and what goes wrong when that foundation is missing. You'll leave this session with a clearer way to evaluate AI decisions against your organization's values, and a practical starting point for building shared criteria with your team.
Build an Ethical AI Policy in 90 Minutes: A Five-Question Framework for Nonprofits
1 ET / 10 am PT
Brenda K. Foster, MPA
Senior VP and Chief of Innovation @ Vanguard Communications
Key Takeaways:
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How to apply the five-question framework to real decisions and workflows
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A practical path for moving from ad hoc AI use to an implemented approach
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Key risks to address now—and how to mitigate them without slowing your team down
Details:
Nonprofits aren’t experimenting with generative AI anymore—they’re using it every day to write emails, research issues, and stretch already limited staff capacity. But most teams are doing this without clear guardrails, creating real risks for the communities they serve. As these tools get more powerful and more embedded, the gap between use and accountability is getting wider. This session builds on earlier work introducing a five-question framework for ethical AI and focuses on what comes next. How do we actually use those questions to shape real-world decisions and start putting a policy into practice? Drawing on two years of conversations with nonprofit and advocacy organizations, we’ll walk through how teams are navigating tradeoffs, where they’re getting stuck, and what it looks like to move from informal use to more intentional, values-aligned approaches. Participants will apply the framework to real scenarios and leave with practical ways to begin implementing it within their own organizations. Why attend: - Understand what’s changed in generative AI—and why informal use is no longer enough - Learn how to turn ethical questions into everyday decisions and team practices
SEO, GEO and Ads: Nonprofit Search Marketing Tactics
2 ET / 11 am PT
Steven Aguiar
Co-Founder @ GivePact
Key Takeaways:
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Why FAQ-centric content is the single best investment for improving visibility across both traditional and AI search simultaneously.
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How the approaches to different search channels overlap, and where they are unique
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AI search visitor behavior compared to traditional SEO
Details:
Search marketing for nonprofits is more complex than ever. Between traditional SEO, paid search, Google Ad Grants, and the rise of AI-powered search engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity, it's easy to feel overwhelmed about where to invest limited time and resources. This session cuts through the noise with a practical framework for understanding all four channels and how they work together. You'll walk away with: - Universal tactics that improve SEO, GEO, paid search, and Ad Grants simultaneously - Channel-specific optimizations tailored to each platform's unique requirements - Quick wins you can implement this week (including llms.txt, FAQ structure, and schema markup) - Realistic timelines and benchmarks so you can set the right expectations - A prioritized action plan for building a sustainable, AI-ready search presence
Donor Attention in the AI Era: How Nonprofits Win Visibility, Trust, and Funding
3 ET / 12 PT
Dale Nirvani Pfeifer
CEO @ Giving Compass
Key Takeaways:
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A clear understanding of how AI systems influence donor discovery and decision-making
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A practical framework for improving nonprofit visibility in AI-mediated environments
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Specific, actionable steps to strengthen credibility signals, content, and digital presence
Details:
AI is reshaping how donors discover, evaluate, and decide which organizations to support. Search is no longer just Google. Increasingly, AI systems mediate what information is surfaced, which organizations are seen, and how trust is formed. For nonprofits, this creates both risk and opportunity. This session introduces a practical framework for understanding and influencing donor attention in AI-driven environments. Drawing on real behavioral data from millions of donor interactions, we will explore how visibility, credibility, and narrative are changing and what nonprofits can do now to remain competitive.
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