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AI Safety for Non-Profits

Ten short lessons for people at non-profits and small organizations who use AI tools or decide whether staff may. No technical background needed, no sign-up, and every lesson stands on its own.

10 lessons , about 70 minutes of reading

  1. Lesson 1: What AI tools do with your data

    Find out where the text, files and recordings your staff put into an AI tool can end up, and the 5 questions that tell you what a tool does.

    7 min read

  2. Lesson 2: Picking AI tools your organization can trust

    Learn to choose AI tools by starting from the task, comparing how each plan handles your data, and keeping a short approved list for staff.

    7 min read

  3. Lesson 3: Writing an AI acceptable-use policy

    Write a one- or two-page AI policy that names approved tools, sets clear data limits, and makes it easy for staff and volunteers to report mistakes.

    7 min read

  4. Lesson 4: Protecting donor and client data when staff use AI

    Sort your data into categories, pick an AI plan with the right settings, and build habits that keep donor and client details out of AI tools.

    7 min read

  5. Lesson 5: Training staff: the five habits

    Teach every staff member and volunteer five safe habits for AI tools, and run a short training session that makes those habits stick.

    7 min read

  6. Lesson 6: Prompt injection and other attacks in plain language

    Learn how prompt injection, jailbreaks and data poisoning work, and the five steps that keep a small organization's AI assistants from being misused.

    7 min read

  7. Lesson 7: Vendor questions to ask before you sign

    Learn which questions to send an AI vendor before signing, how to read the answers, and why every answer belongs in writing.

    7 min read

  8. Lesson 8: Handling an AI incident

    Learn what counts as an AI incident at a small organization and the steps to contain, assess, report and fix one in the first hours and days.

    7 min read

  9. Lesson 9: Frameworks explained: NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001 and the EU AI Act

    Learn what the NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001 and the EU AI Act are, who they apply to, and which parts a small organization should use or watch.

    7 min read

  10. Lesson 10: Keeping it current: a quarterly review

    Run a one-hour quarterly review that keeps your AI tools, settings, policy and staff training up to date, with a named owner and a one-page record.

    7 min read