AI Strategy
Writing your nonprofit's first AI policy
Your first AI policy fits on one page and leads with principles, not prohibitions. Here is what to include, plus an outline you can use.
The AI Policy Builder · free · 5 minutes
Your first AI policy, drafted in five minutes
Eight questions about how your team works. Pick your answers and get a one-page draft in plain words, ready to share.
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What you’ll decide
Eight decisions, one page
- 1Who it coversStaff, volunteers, board, contractors.
- 2Which toolsWhat’s on your list, and how a tool gets on it.
- 3What data goes whereNever, paid plans only, or OK to use.
- 4Where AI helpsThe work your team can hand it.
- 5What stays humanThe things a person does, every time.
- 6Who checks the workWhat needs an OK, and whose.
- 7When you say AI helpedOne position, and a line your team can use.
- 8Who owns itOne person, and a review rhythm.
Your draft
Here’s your policy
Read it, change what doesn’t fit, then take it to your team.
Next
Before you adopt it
- 1
Talk it through
Go through it with your leadership team. The conversations are where a policy gets real.
- 2
Check your plans
In each tool, confirm training on your data is switched off, and look for SOC 2 Type 2 on the vendor’s security page.
Is it safe to put donor data into AI? - 3
Walk your team through it
A short walk-through does more than any fine print. Then put it where people actually look.
Writing your nonprofit’s first AI policy
Take it further
Keep going in Claude
Pick a next step. We copy your draft and a prompt, then open Claude for you to paste it in.
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