Spring Summit

March 26th โ€“ 28th

3 days giving you the latest on AI for nonprofits, advocacy, and social impact organizations.

AI for Nonprofits and Advocacy Summit

Spring 2025

AI is already making a major impact in the workflows and capacity for organizations around the world. With AI moving so rapidly weโ€™ll 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 isnโ€™t just changing how we do digital engagement, marketing, and fundraising.

Weโ€™ll dig into how organizations can use AI for:

  • Expanding Capacity
  • Strategic planning
  • Making better sense of data

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Weโ€™ll be bringing together leaders from a variety of nonprofit, advocacy, and political organizations to share with you.

Sessions

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.

Wednesday March 26th

Welcome Conversation - The State of AI for Nonprofits & Advocacy

Join event host Brad Caldana and featured speakers and guests for a conversation on what is next in AI for Nonprofits and Advocacy.

Brad Caldana

Founder & President @ Center for Digital Strategy

How Are Organizations Actually Using AI?

Progressive organizations across sectors are leveraging AI to overcome common challenges while staying true to their missions. From ArtsWaveโ€™s small team juggling multiple content needs to Mission Telecomโ€™s 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, theyโ€™ve transformed these constraints into opportunities.

The result isnโ€™t just efficiencyโ€”itโ€™s expanded impact. Organizations are covering more issues, responding faster to breaking news, and freeing staff to focus on strategic work rather than administrative tasks.

Tareq Alani

Co-Founder @ Chorus AI

Advanced AI Writing for Nonprofit Communicators

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:

  • Spot and eliminate common AI-generated content patterns.
  • Maintain your and your nonprofitโ€™s unique voice.
  • Use personas and a custom GPT to refine messaging and ensure consistency.

Join us to perfect your AI-assisted writing!

Anne Murphy

Founder @ #SheLeadsAI

Ethical AI in Communications: Five Questions to Guide Nonprofit Use

Learn how to ethically integrate AI into your communication strategy while maintaining your organizationโ€™s 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.

Brenda K. Foster

Chief of Innovation @ Vanguard Communications

Thursday March 26th

AI Access for All: Perspectives from the Field on How Nonprofits Are Ethically and Strategically Benefitting From AI

Working with civil society organizations of all types in over 60 countries, including through our recently launched โ€œAI Access for Allโ€ initiative, weโ€™ve 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.
โ€ข 100% believe AI will be valuable to achieve their goals in next 12 months
โ€ข 81% of organizations are concerned about the risks AI proposes

Conversation topics will include:
โ€ข 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.
โ€ข Challenges and Opportunities: Real-world examples of how they currently navigate the challenges and risks associated with AI adoption.
โ€ข Call to Action: Need for funders to increase dedication to improving AI literacy within the civil society sector, multiplying the impact of their investments.

Jesse Danzig

President @ Global Wave Digital

Panel: The AI Leadership Playbook: Leading with Empathy

Leadership is humanโ€”and 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 โ€ขย ย ย Understand the challenges of AI adoption and how to guide teams through change.
ย ย ย โ€ขย ย ย Identify key leadership struggles in AI implementation and strategies to address them.
ย ย ย โ€ขย 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 teamsโ€”and the futureโ€”with empathy.

Anne Murphy

Founder @ #SheLeadsAI

AI for Coalitions: How to Leverage Generative AI to Align Efforts & Eliminate Meetings

Organizing as a coalition has always been hard. Coordination is time-consuming and maintaining message alignment is hard. Change Agentโ€™s 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.

Aram Fischer

CEO & Cofounder @ Change Agent AI

Ethical AI in Communications: Five Questions to Guide Nonprofit Use

Learn how to ethically integrate AI into your communication strategy while maintaining your organizationโ€™s 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.

Brenda K. Foster

Chief of Innovation @ Vanguard Communications

Building an AI-Ready Culture: Practical Steps for Mission-Driven AI Adoption

AI is making its way into nonprofit and advocacy work, but the real challenge isnโ€™t just choosing the right toolsโ€”itโ€™s making sure they are used in a way that strengthens your organizationโ€™s 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 isnโ€™t just about technology. Itโ€™s 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 strengthenโ€”not disruptโ€”their team and organization.

Valerie Ehrlich

Founder & Principal Consultant @ Mission Bloom, LLC

Michael DePass

Faculty @ Center for Creative Leadership

Friday March 28th

Right Message, right time, right people.

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? Letโ€™s explore!

Rachel Kimber

Technology Futurist and Nonprofit Executive

Rapid Response with AI for Nonprofits

In this session, weโ€™ll explore how Quillerโ€™s AI-driven platform helps nonprofits quickly craft personalized responses to urgent issues. With AIโ€™s ability to analyze data and engage supporters in real-time, you can scale your messaging efforts and stay agile in fast-moving advocacy campaigns.

Zack Doherty

Chief of Staff @ Quiller

Fast, accurate insights from open-ended comments at scale

Understanding your audience is crucialโ€”whether thatโ€™s 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, itโ€™s now possible to efficiently analyze large volumes of open-ended feedback with speed, accuracy, and nuanceโ€”transforming what was once a burdensome task into an actionable strategy.

Together weโ€™ll explore how analyzing open-ended data at scale enables you to listen to members, donors, online commentary, and public opinion. And weโ€™ll show you how Fathom helps organizations analyze open-ended data quickly, accurately, and meaningfullyโ€”without the need for overwhelming resources.

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Tovah Paglaro

Co-founder @ Fathom

AI - Beyond the ChatGPT Age

The age of electricity wasnโ€™t defined by bigger generators, but by the proliferation of devices that transformed electric power into real tools and appliances that provided value. Similarly, AIโ€™s impact wonโ€™t 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 โ€œAI 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 electricityโ€™s unique capabilities, organizations must move beyond simply accessing ChatGPT to fundamentally reimagining their processes with purpose-built AI applications for their specific needs.

George Irish

Founder @ Fundraising with AI

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FAQs

Is the event online?

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

Iโ€™ve seen free summits for nonprofits. Why isnโ€™t 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 

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