Spring Summit
March 26th โ 28th
3 days giving you the latest on AI for nonprofits, advocacy, and social impact organizations.
AI is already making a major impact in the workflows and capacity for organizations around the world. With AI moving so rapidly weโll offer multiple summits this year kicking off in March.
Join us for three days hearing from experts and practitioners alike about how they are leveraging AI for positive change in the world. AI isnโt just changing how we do digital engagement, marketing, and fundraising.
Weโll dig into how organizations can use AI for:
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Weโll be bringing together leaders from a variety of nonprofit, advocacy, and political organizations to share with you.
The Summit kicks off at 1pm ET / 10am PT on Wednesday, March 26thย
Sessions are typically 30-60 minutes
Most sessions occur 12 ET/ 9amPT and 5 ET / 2PT
All sessions are subject to change.
Join event host Brad Caldana and featured speakers and guests for a conversation on what is next in AI for Nonprofits and Advocacy.
Founder & President @ Center for Digital Strategy
Progressive organizations across sectors are leveraging AI to overcome common challenges while staying true to their missions. From ArtsWaveโs small team juggling multiple content needs to Mission Telecomโs rapid response during Hurricane Helene, AI is transforming how these organizations operate without replacing the human element.
These organizations face similar challenges: limited staff, overwhelming information volumes, and pressure to respond quickly to emerging situations. By implementing AI, theyโve transformed these constraints into opportunities.
The result isnโt just efficiencyโitโs expanded impact. Organizations are covering more issues, responding faster to breaking news, and freeing staff to focus on strategic work rather than administrative tasks.
Co-Founder @ Chorus AI
Advanced AI Writing for Nonprofit Communicators
AI can be a powerful tool for nonprofit communicators, but it can also undermine your credibility. This session will help you avoid tell-tale signs of AI writing, refine messaging using personas, and maintain brand consistency with a custom GPT. Learn how to preserve authentic human connection in your communication while using AI effectively.
Learning Outcomes:
Join us to perfect your AI-assisted writing!
Founder @ #SheLeadsAI
Learn how to ethically integrate AI into your communication strategy while maintaining your organizationโs mission and values. This session covers key ethical questions and actionable steps to ensure transparency and reduce bias. Ideal for nonprofit communicators looking to incorporate AI responsibly.
Chief of Innovation @ Vanguard Communications
Working with civil society organizations of all types in over 60 countries, including through our recently launched โAI Access for Allโ initiative, weโve seen firsthand how organizations can tap the power of AI to multiply their impact for social good.
This session will spotlight our recent survey of civil society organizations in over ten countries in the Global South, featuring insights from prominent civil society leaders in a panel discussion.
We will also share insights into how high-performing organizations are approaching AI adoption, and our framework for how to approach and assess new and existing AI tools.
Why AI Access for All
Key findings from our recent survey of organizations in over 10 countries underscore both the potential and the urgent need for support in navigating the expanding AI toolset, especially in resource-constrained organizations and movements.
โข 100% believe AI will be valuable to achieve their goals in next 12 months
โข 81% of organizations are concerned about the risks AI proposes
Conversation topics will include:
โข Impact of AI tools: The necessity for AI tools in their work and how they see AI continuing to impact the sector in the next 3-5 years.
โข Challenges and Opportunities: Real-world examples of how they currently navigate the challenges and risks associated with AI adoption.
โข Call to Action: Need for funders to increase dedication to improving AI literacy within the civil society sector, multiplying the impact of their investments.
President @ Global Wave Digital
Leadership is humanโand the AI revolution reminds us of that on a daily basis. Social sector leaders must navigate uncertainty, support diverse stakeholders, and ensure ethical implementation as AI reshapes the way we work. This panel, led by She Leads AI founder Anne Murphy, brings together women at the forefront of AI to share real-world strategies for leading with empathy.
Learning Outcomes:
ย ย ย โขย ย ย Understand the challenges of AI adoption and how to guide teams through change.
ย ย ย โขย ย ย Identify key leadership struggles in AI implementation and strategies to address them.
ย ย ย โขย ย ย Explore real-world AI pain points and how to navigate them in your organization.
Join us for a conversation on how to lead AI teamsโand the futureโwith empathy.
Founder @ #SheLeadsAI
Organizing as a coalition has always been hard. Coordination is time-consuming and maintaining message alignment is hard. Change Agentโs deployment of the New Mexico Progressive AI System (NM-PAIS) makes coalition organizing far easier through the power of generative AI. Come learn how your coalition can leverage generative AI and make it easier than ever to amplify impact as a collective.
CEO & Cofounder @ Change Agent AI
Learn how to ethically integrate AI into your communication strategy while maintaining your organizationโs mission and values. This session covers key ethical questions and actionable steps to ensure transparency and reduce bias. Ideal for nonprofit communicators looking to incorporate AI responsibly.
Chief of Innovation @ Vanguard Communications
AI is making its way into nonprofit and advocacy work, but the real challenge isnโt just choosing the right toolsโitโs making sure they are used in a way that strengthens your organizationโs mission, values, and people. The way a team approaches AI, whether with excitement or hesitation, often reflects broader organizational habits around learning, collaboration, and change. This moment isnโt just about technology. Itโs an opportunity to build a culture that embraces learning, psychological safety, and thoughtful experimentation while keeping the mission front and center.
This session will offer practical strategies and simple but meaningful actions to help organizations move from AI awareness to intentional, impactful use.
Participants will:
โ Explore key mindset shifts that support a thoughtful and mission-driven approach to AI.
โ Learn simple, low-risk ways to start experimenting with AI while strengthening collaboration and trust.
โ Build a habit of critical curiosity, developing the skills to stay informed, engaged, and adequately skeptical without feeling pressure to adopt every new tool.
This session is designed for nonprofit and advocacy leaders who want to integrate AI in a way that is practical, inclusive, and aligned with their mission and values. Participants will leave with tangible steps they can take right away, plus a fresh perspective on how AI adoption can be an opportunity to strengthenโnot disruptโtheir team and organization.
Founder & Principal Consultant @ Mission Bloom, LLC
Faculty @ Center for Creative Leadership
Wrangling Large Data Sets
We need to be able to get the right message to the right people, at the right time. How can AI help? Letโs explore!
Technology Futurist and Nonprofit Executive
In this session, weโll explore how Quillerโs AI-driven platform helps nonprofits quickly craft personalized responses to urgent issues. With AIโs ability to analyze data and engage supporters in real-time, you can scale your messaging efforts and stay agile in fast-moving advocacy campaigns.
Chief of Staff @ Quiller
Understanding your audience is crucialโwhether thatโs members, donors, media comments, or public opinion. Yet, analyzing open-ended feedback at scale has historically been a prohibitively challenging task. The volume of responses can be overwhelming, and traditional methods of manually reviewing and coding this data are time-consuming and resource-intensive.
But with advancements in AI-powered tools like Fathom, itโs now possible to efficiently analyze large volumes of open-ended feedback with speed, accuracy, and nuanceโtransforming what was once a burdensome task into an actionable strategy.
Together weโll explore how analyzing open-ended data at scale enables you to listen to members, donors, online commentary, and public opinion. And weโll show you how Fathom helps organizations analyze open-ended data quickly, accurately, and meaningfullyโwithout the need for overwhelming resources.
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Co-founder @ Fathom
The age of electricity wasnโt defined by bigger generators, but by the proliferation of devices that transformed electric power into real tools and appliances that provided value. Similarly, AIโs impact wonโt be measured by more sophisticated models but by the explosion of tools that convert raw intelligence into practical tools and applications. Every organization now faces the same opportunity (and challenge): to start designing โAI toastersโ that harness abundant intelligence to solve real problems. Just as factories that merely replaced steam engines with electric motors saw minimal gains until they redesigned around electricityโs unique capabilities, organizations must move beyond simply accessing ChatGPT to fundamentally reimagining their processes with purpose-built AI applications for their specific needs.
Founder @ Fundraising with AI
Yes, to make the event as accessible as possible we offer our summits completely online so people can join from anywhere in the world.
Yes, all sessions will be recorded and available immediately after the session. We will edit the recordings for a better playback for you when possible.
Yes! This event will give attendees, sponsors, and speakers the chance to connect. The live sessions and chat are all held inside of our new community site.
You can pay with a credit card using the register link.
If you need to pay with an online check or invoice please email: [email protected]
Yes, we offer scholarships for individuals and organizations who need them. Please use this form:ย https://centerfordigitalstrategy.com/scholarship
Iโve seen free summits for nonprofits. Why isnโt this one free?
The majority of free summits and conferences make the attendees the commodity. What you end up with is a sponsor-centered event.
We have done away with attendee data sharing and are working to create more authentic connections between sponsors and attendees.ย
Like any live event, the content and schedules are subject to change because the speakers are humans, and technology will always be complicated.ย