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Experience Overview
Most AI trainings overwhelm with theory or tools that don’t stick. Sparks are different: quick, 10–15 minute jolts that flip how your team thinks and works with AI. No long lectures. No wasted time. Just high-energy moments that trigger action and build momentum.
Experience Overview
With the AI Sparks Pass, your team gains unlimited access for 12 months — a living calendar that adapts as fast as AI itself. From two-minute hacks to myth-busting insights and leadership guardrails, every Spark is crafted to meet nonprofit professionals where they are, fueling confidence and weaving AI into everyday culture.
Learning That Fits Your Moment
No endless lectures. No overwhelming theory. Just focused jolts that cut through the noise and give people what they actually need. A full year where you and your team can drop into a rolling calendar of sessions - live, high-energy, designed to deliver one sharp breakthrough at a time. Each Spark is built for the realities of nonprofit teams, meeting them where they are and moving them forward, one shift at a time.
From Insight to Action
We don’t leave people with “good ideas” that fizzle by Monday morning. Every session comes with a resource (we call them Spark Provocations), that turns the key insight from each section into action. It may include a ready-to-use templates, a challenge, or quick-start actions that translate inspiration into practice. This is how Sparks move from “aha” to ROI in real time.
Make Sparks Last
Here’s where short Sparks turn into long-term change. With guided prompts and team reflection questions, every Spark gets captured, reinforced, and woven into daily routines. Think of it as the habit-builder that makes sure insights don’t just vanish into the ether. Over time, it becomes a living record of your AI journey—a trackable way to see progress, celebrate growth, and sustain momentum.
Your Evolving Resource
The AI Library grows right alongside your Sparks. Inside, you’ll find cheat sheets, curated prompt libraries, and real-world use cases tailored to nonprofit teams. This is a live library - evolving as new sessions launch, tools update, and sector priorities shift. That means the Library is always current, always practical, and always expanding with the best of what your peers are learning.
Tools that power your everyday
Nonprofits are drowning in AI tools. Every week another platform claims to “change everything.” Tool Sparks go beyond tool tours to show what actually matters: the features, hacks, and workflows that save hours, cut costs, and scale impact. From lightning-fast “AI Speed Dating” intros to deeper dives into platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, Make, or Fundraising and Nonprofit new releases - we cover what's relevant, what works, and what to ignore.
Capability for everything you do
Tools change. Skills endure. Skill Sparks focus on the core capabilities every nonprofit needs: smart prompting, critical thinking with AI, research workflows, and data-driven decisions plus role-specific skills for fundraising, comms, and programs. Grounded in lessons from 8,000+ nonprofit professionals, these sessions are hands-on and practical. Each skill compounds, building confidence and competence that carry across tools and challenges.
Mindsets that move you forward
The biggest AI barriers aren’t technical - they’re human. Mindset Sparks flip fear into curiosity, hesitation into confidence, and outdated stories into new possibilities. Through myth-busting, reframing, games, and live demos, these sessions spotlight the mindsets and methods vital to navigating and getting real value from AI - curiosity, experimentation, growth, psychological safety. They're also about courage, facing what stalls progress: perfectionism, paralysis, or fear of replacement.
Tailored for your role
Every role faces different challenges with AI. Role Sparks zoom in on what matters most to each audience, so everyone gets the breakthroughs they need. Leaders explore governance and decision-making. Fundraisers refine donor journeys and engagement. Communicators sharpen storytelling and creative workflows. Program staff uncover new ways to design services, use data, and connect with communities. The outcome: every role can understand AI for them.
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
