AI Agents for Nonprofits

Practical AI work for small to mid sized nonprofits — grounded, honest, and bounded.

What is an AI agent?

An AI agent is software that does work on a schedule or in response to something happening — not just a chatbot that answers questions. It watches a list, summarises a stack of documents, drafts an outreach email when the moment looks right, files a routine report. The human stays in the loop; the agent handles the parts that were always going to slip.

Agents are the next step beyond conversational AI. Most nonprofits start with ChatGPT, Copilot, or Gemini in their daily work; the strongest ones eventually get a single agent doing one well-scoped job, and grow from there.

How I can help

Three ways nonprofits typically engage, depending on where you are in your AI journey.

Stage 1

AI strategy
Map your work, find the time-sinks, identify where AI actually fits.
A short engagement to cut through the AI hype and identify the one or two places where AI would make a real difference to your specific organisation. No pitch deck of generic use cases.

Stage 2

Optimise your conversational AI
Get more out of ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, or Claude in your day-to-day.
Most nonprofits already have an LLM subscription that they barely use. A focused engagement to set up Custom GPTs, Copilot Agents, or Gemini Gems grounded in your own knowledge — so the AI you already pay for actually does work.

Stage 3

Build your first AI agent
Ship one well-scoped agent doing one well-scoped job.
A multi-week co-build engagement to take an idea from prototype to production. The agent ends up in your own infrastructure, paid for by your organisation directly, maintainable by your team or a hired contractor — not locked to me.

Real example

Allard Prize Donor Outreach
An AI agent that watches a list and recommends when to act.

The Challenge

The Allard Prize needed to identify and engage potential donors aligned with their global integrity mission, but manual monitoring of news and social media was time-consuming and inconsistent.

The Solution

An agent that monitors 50+ news sources daily, scrapes LinkedIn activity, and uses AI to score relevance and draft personalised outreach recommendations — surfacing only the few names that deserve attention each week.

  • · Automated daily monitoring of 50+ RSS feeds
  • · AI-drafted outreach recommendations, human-approved
  • · CRM integration for downstream donor tracking
  • · Honest about what the AI does and does not do
Safe AI adoption
The principles I bring to every engagement.
  • Start smallOne specific workflow with clear, measurable impact.
  • Build understandingLearn by doing — hands-on experience builds confidence and capability.
  • Maintain controlAI suggests, humans decide. You stay in control of every action.
  • Scale graduallyExpand to new use cases once your team is comfortable.
Learn more with MAS
Free resources for nonprofits exploring AI.

I volunteer with Management Advisory Services (MAS), helping nonprofits understand and safely adopt AI. MAS publishes case studies, white papers, webinars, and a free AI Advisor that installs in your own LLM.

Ready to explore?

Get in touch to discuss where AI could fit in your organisation, or browse other nonprofit AI projects.