Nonprofit leaders and practitioners often found themselves stuck between shallow “tips and tricks” trainings and abstract academic debates about AI. What they needed was a middle path: immersive, practical experiences that built real skills and confidence, while connecting to their mission.
We created PLAI’s AI Immersions: three-week, high-touch virtual journeys designed in two tracks - one for leaders, one for practitioners. Each combines surprise-and-delight demos, hands-on workflows, reflective exercises, and peer learning. The design is part accelerator, part community, part transformation.
Leaders gained clarity on how AI fits into their mission and strategy. Practitioners walked away with new daily habits, tool fluency, and confidence to redesign workflows. Participants described the Immersions as transformational, not just educational — a shift in how they see and use AI.
Immersions are growing and are one of PLAI’s flagship offering, building an alumni network of AI-fluent leaders and practitioners. Over time, these cohorts will form a movement, rewriting how the nonprofit sector thinks and works with AI.
Sparks deliver high-energy breakthroughs that flip the switch on AI adoption. These are short, fast, and focused sessions that deliver one breakthrough at a time - tool hacks, mindset flips, leadership guardrails. Designed for busy lives and diverse roles, you'll get year round immediate wins, fresh learning, and develop habits that stick.
AI Sparks Annual Pass
Unlimited for 12-Months
Lead with clarity when it matters most. In 3 weeks, you’ll join a powerful cohort of your peers, dive into hands-on labs, and leave with a roadmap, guardrails, and the confidence to lead. Deepen learning with a year of support through AI Spark sessions and an exclusive leadership community. This is Mission-First Leadership in the AI era.
Virtual Immersion
3 Weeks
Finally a way to turn AI experimentation into results you can feel. Across 3 weeks, you’ll build the skills to redesign workflows and change how you think about and use AI. Packed with resources, you'll walk away with a trusted community to lean on and 12-months of follow up sessions to deepen learning. This is where AI becomes your most impactful habit.
Virtual Immersion
3 Weeks
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