Learning Resources
Keep learning without getting overwhelmed
Use this section as a curated starting point: practical next steps, a few strong courses, and other helpful links worth exploring.
Need something practical before more reading?
Start with the beginner path, the FAQ, or the downloadable planning kit if you need help with leadership alignment and staff guardrails.
Quick Start Checklist
This week
Start on-site: review the frameworks and choose one low-risk, worthwhile task before you open any tools.
Go to: Start Here or Frameworks
Next week
Use one prompt with a non-sensitive example so you can test the task safely before involving real data.
Go to: Prompts
This month
Pick one beginner-friendly tool and run a small pilot with human review before expanding the workflow.
Go to: Tools
Ongoing
Document what worked, keep simple guardrails, and use the FAQ or practical kit when you need team alignment.
Go to: FAQ or Practical Kit
Downloadable practical assets
These are lightweight working documents you can adapt for your own leadership, board, or staff conversations.
A simple checklist for leaders assessing people, process, data, and governance before wider AI adoption.
A one-page talking guide for introducing AI to your board with appropriate caution and practical framing.
A plain-language internal starting point for staff guardrails, sensitive data boundaries, and review expectations.
A lightweight 4-week sequence for moving from curiosity to one disciplined, low-risk pilot.
Courses
These are useful if you want a little more structure after you have a first use case in mind.
| Course | Provider | Free | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unlocking AI for Nonprofits | NetHope + Microsoft | Yes | Open |
| AI Fluency for nonprofits | Anthropic + GivingTuesday | Yes | Open |
| Leveraging Generative AI for Social Impact Organizations | University of Michigan / Coursera | Yes | Open |
| AI for Decision Makers | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center / Coursera | Yes | Open |
| Prompt Engineering for Claude | Anthropic | Yes | Open |
| ChatGPT Prompt Engineering | OpenAI + DeepLearning.AI | Yes | Open |
| AI for Everyone | Andrew Ng / Coursera | Yes | Open |
| Google AI Essentials | Yes | Open | |
| N8N Beginner Course | n8n | Yes | Open |