We’re excited to guide you from AI dabbling to confident, repeatable results.
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Experience Overview
Most nonprofit professionals are curious about AI but aren’t sure how to make it work in daily practice. The AI Capability Immersion changes that: it’s built for nonprofit professionals, by nonprofit and AI experts. In just 3 weeks, you’ll turn experimentation into reliable workflows and walk away with the tools to lead with confidence.
Experience Overview
This isn’t another hype-driven AI course. Instead, you’ll learn to apply AI directly to your donor outreach, campaigns, and strategy — while protecting trust and values. With your personal AI Playbook and a 90-day action plan, you’ll leave ready to embed AI into your work, save time each week
Three weeks. Hands-on. Role-specific.
A structured journey that takes you from dabbling to doing. You’ll build core habits, practice real collaboration with AI, and redesign one of your workflows for impact. Everything you learn ties directly to your day-to-day role.
Keep Learning Year Round
Enrollment includes a full year of Sparks: short, high-energy sessions that deliver quick wins, tool hacks, myth-busting insights, and leadership debates. Each one keeps your skills sharp and your momentum alive long after the Immersion.
Turn Skills into Daily Practice
You’ll leave with a Personal AI Journal and Workbook, a framework for spotting use cases, and access to the shared Prompt & Use Case Library. Plus, your own Generative AI Playbook and 90-Day Action Plan—built by you, guided by PLAI, ready for real-world use.
Your Circle of Practice
Join PLAI’s Mission-First AI Community: a private network of peers and alumni tackling the same challenges. Share wins, test ideas, and get direct support from experts. This isn’t another noisy LinkedIn group—it’s a trusted space to learn and grow together.
Before we dive in, you’ll join a live onboarding to meet your cohort, set goals, and get oriented. Together, we’ll complete the AI Capability Assessment, surface your priorities, and create a shared language so every session connects directly to your real work. If you’re brand new to AI, you’ll also get a fast-track primer on the basics — so everyone begins on the same page.
By the end of Onboarding, you will:
See exactly what AI can (and can’t) do for your nonprofit role — from fundraising to comms to program design. You’ll start with quick wins you can use right away, then move into the principles and habits that separate effective AI users from the dabblers. Along the way, you’ll practice spotting high-value use cases, learn prompting basics, and explore nonprofit examples that show what’s possible.
By the end of Week 1, you will:
Now it’s about depth. We’ll take one of your real tasks — writing a donor appeal, analyzing survey data, drafting policy briefs, or building a content calendar — and turn it into a repeatable AI workflow. You’ll design better prompts, create reusable templates, and test simple custom GPTs if relevant. The focus is on leaving with something practical, not theoretical: a working AI workflow that saves time and raises quality.
By the end of Week 2, you will:
The final step is about making change last. You’ll codify what you built into a simple AI Playbook you can use every day, then map out a 90-day plan for expanding into more use cases. Together we’ll practice nonprofit-specific guardrails for ethics, privacy, equity, and donor trust, so you feel confident using AI responsibly. You’ll leave with the structure and mindset to keep AI alive in your work, long after the immersion ends.
By the end of Week 3, you will:
CEO / Founder of PLAI. Stanford Human-Centered AI Institute Alumni. 2 x Top 100 Women of Influence.
Kaz has been building, shaping, and leading it since 2015. As the founder and CEO of PLAI, and a Stanford HAI alum, she’s trained more than 8,000 nonprofits in AI, with a4.9/5 rating along the way. She's worked in impact at every scale - from global NGOs andlocal grassroots orgs to leaders from Google, Tesla, and Bain & Company.
Twice named one of Australia’s Top 100 Women of Influence, Kaz is also the co-founder of the global Ration Challenge (raising $80M+ to fight hunger), and the creator of Digital Village, a top-rated leadership program that continues to inspire change-makers.
She’s a sought-after speaker at global summits including the Fundraising AI, International Fundraising Congress, and the Fundraising Institute of Australia - where she’s known for sessions that surprise, delight, and create a little magic in the room. Kaz’s mission is simple but powerful: make AI simple, joyful, and transformative for those who need it most.
COO of PLAI. Executive Coach (UC Berkeley). Ex-Meta, Salesforce and Accenture.
Stephen builds the systems where AI adoption sticks. He designs the processes, rituals, and accountability that transform “great AI ideas” into workflows that actually ship. His focus: clarity, results, and habits that last - always grounded trust and safety.
With more than 15 years at Meta, Salesforce, and Accenture, Stephen has led high-stakes programs where advanced machine learning collides with human decision-making. He has led specialist trust and safety teams through elections and the pandemic, and coached social impact leaders around the world.
A UC Berkeley–certified executive coach, Stephen is as committed to people as he is to process. He blends empathy and play with uncompromising rigor, developing leaders and high-performing teams who can lead with confidence in the age of AI. His mission is clear: help organizations not just learn AI, but live it - leaving with systems, rhythms, and leadership habits that hold up in the real world.
Unlike any other professional, or leadership course I have participated in. Cohesive group, well facilitated and the learnings structured but held loosely enough to allow for flexibility. I highly recommend PLAI to leaders, teams and those wanting to build curiosity and creativity within their organizations.
From day one I realized this was different...and it was going to challenge me, welcome me and support me. Highly engaging, practical and informative. Smooth, confident facilitation, while deeply approachable and personable. The right language, frameworks, tools and mindset for a different way of being and doing.
It was truly a wonderful restructuring experience for my work but also personal front. I have thought about the key lessons almost everyday, reflecting in silence and embarking upon a process of becoming a better and more effective person and professional.
A rare mix of bold challenge and deep care. I left not just with leadership tools, but with a new way of seeing myself and my role. Practical, stretching, and profoundly human. The PLAI team made complex ideas accessible and actionable. I walked away with both a strategy and the confidence to lead it.
What stood out? The mix of rigorous insight and empathy. I’ve sat through a dozen AI workshops, but this was different. Thoughtfully designed, ethically grounded, and laser-focused on impact. The combination of structure and openness created the conditions for breakthroughs I didn’t expect.
What surprised me most was how quickly fear turned into excitement. The sessions helped our team reframe AI from confusion to possibility. Generous, challenging, and beautifully designed. The PLAI team made AI feel less like a black box and more like a canvas.
Sparks deliver high-energy breakthroughs that flip the switch on AI adoption. These are fast, focused sessions - built on the psychology of peak moments - that give your team immediate wins, fresh confidence, and habits that stick. Sparks cover tools; skills; mindset; and role deep dives.
Unlimited AI Spark Sessions
AI Sparks Annual Pass
AI is already reshaping how staff work, how donors engage, and how boards set priorities. Yet most nonprofit leaders feel unprepared. In just 3 weeks, this high-touch program equips you with the frameworks, guardrails, and confidence to guide your organization’s AI journey.
Virtual AI Immersion
Virtual Immersion
Most nonprofit professionals are dabbling with AI, but few turn it into repeatable results. In 3 weeks, you’ll build real workflows, customize your personal AI playbook, and leave with a 90-day AI action plan that embeds AI into your daily work with confidence.
Cohort Experience (Virtual)
Virtual AI Immersion
