The Challenge

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.

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Our Approach

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.

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• Designed two distinct tracks: Leadership and Practitioner
• Ran 3-week virtual cohorts with live demos and interactive sessions
• Combined practical workflows with peer learning and reflection
• Built confidence, habits, and skills through high-touch facilitation

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The Outcome

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.

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What's next?

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.

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