Who we serve
For Nonprofits & Community Groups
You serve people, your team is stretched thin, and most AI advice aimed at you is either vendor sales material or written for organizations with an IT department. This is the plain-language version, built around the work you actually do.
Where this stands today
Honest status first
Community AI Workshops
Program status: Interest list openNot scheduled yet. Add your name and we will reach out when it is.
AI for Nonprofits
Program status: Interest list openNot scheduled yet. Add your name and we will reach out when it is.
AI for Nonprofits
Small teams doing important work do not need a technology strategy. They need the administrative pile to get smaller. That is what this is about.
The training is built around the work your staff already does: the newsletter that goes out late, the third rewrite of the same appeal letter, the board report, the intake notes, the volunteer email nobody has time to send. We start from those tasks rather than from a tool tour, and we teach in plain language to people who have never wanted to be technical and should not have to be.
We also spend real time on where these tools do not belong. Donor relationships, client information, anything confidential, anything where a confident wrong answer would do harm. Knowing where to stop is part of the skill.
Community workshops
These are for the people you serve, not just your staff. Short, hands-on sessions in plain English, held where people already gather — your fellowship hall, your meeting room, your computer lab, your senior center. No prerequisites, no vocabulary test, no assumption that everyone owns the right device.
You provide the room and the people who trust you. We bring the session. That combination works because attendance has almost nothing to do with the topic and almost everything to do with whether someone already feels welcome in the building.
What we teach
The subjects we cover
Volunteer coordination
Recruiting messages, scheduling, reminders, and the follow-up that keeps volunteers from drifting away — plus clear rules about what volunteer information stays out of these tools.
Responsible-use guidance
What these tools get wrong, how confidently they get it wrong, what should never be pasted into them, and how to write down a simple policy your staff and volunteers will actually follow.
Microsoft 365 and workflow education
The everyday software most organizations already pay for and use at a fraction of its worth. Shared files, forms, simple automation, and getting a repeated task down from an hour to ten minutes.
Staff and volunteer training
Sessions for your team, at your pace, using your own tasks instead of a demo file. Usually better as two shorter sessions than one long one.
Longer deep-dive sessions
For subjects that need more than an introductory hour — a rebuilt workflow, responsible use in depth, or reporting. On the roadmap.
Help from graduates
Work a capable trained helper could take on for you, matched with someone who needs a real project. It helps you and it helps them. In development.
Partnership, not just booking a session
Libraries, churches and faith communities, schools and districts, senior groups, neighborhood organizations, and workforce programs are the reason any of this reaches people. You already have the trust, the room, and the relationships. What a partnership usually looks like is simple: you host, you tell the people you serve, and we bring the teaching.
Some partners go further — a standing series instead of one session, staff training alongside community workshops, or hosting a graduate on a project your team has never had time for. There is no application maze for any of it. It starts with a conversation.
Whatever your organization can offer, we work at your scale and on your calendar.Training should lead somewhere.
Work that needs implementing rather than teaching — a real Microsoft 365 rollout, automation, or configuration — belongs with GrowthPoint TechAI, the professional services side of the same mission. We will point you there honestly rather than stretch a workshop to cover it.
Get on the list
Workshop and training request
This puts your organization on the interest list and tells us enough to plan around you. It is not a booking, and it does not commit you to anything.
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We are still wiring up the site. In the meantime, email us and we will pick it up from there — please mention workshop request so it reaches the right place.
Questions organizations ask
Our organization is tiny. Are we too small for this?
Small is who this is built for. If your whole operation is two staff and a group of volunteers, you are exactly the kind of team where an hour of the right training changes the week. There is no minimum size, no minimum budget, and no expectation that you have anyone technical on the payroll.
What does a workshop cost us?
We are not in a position to publish pricing, and we are not going to invent a number to look established. Community AI Workshops and AI for Nonprofits are both at interest-list stage while we line up host locations and support. Get on the list and we will be straight with you about cost as soon as there is anything real to say.
Our staff are nervous about AI, and some are against it. Now what?
Good. Bring them. We spend real time on where these tools are wrong, where they should not be trusted, and what information should never go near them. The people asking hard questions usually end up the most careful and effective users, and a session that only sells the upside is not worth your afternoon.
How long does it take?
A community workshop is an hour or two, and people leave with something they can try that week. Staff training usually works better as a couple of shorter sessions than one long one, because the second session is where the real questions come out. Longer deep-dive sessions are on the roadmap for subjects that need an afternoon.
What happens to the information we send you?
It comes to us so we can follow up about the workshop or training you asked about. We do not sell it, and we do not publish your organization's name as a partner anywhere without asking you first. Our privacy notice has the details.
Do you want our donor list or our client data?
No, and please do not send it. We teach people to keep donor relationships and client information out of these tools, and we hold ourselves to the same rule. We will never ask you or the people you serve for Social Security numbers, financial records, or medical information.
Looking for something else?
If you are here for yourself rather than for your organization, start atFor Learners. If you can help pay for training, offer a project, or host someone, seeFor Employers & Sponsors. To give time as a volunteer or mentor, see Get Involved, and the full list of what we run is on Programs.
Bring it to the people you already serve
You have the room and the trust. Get your organization on the list and we will build the schedule around where the need is.