AI for Charities: Safe, Honest, Practical Use

What's inside

1. Level 1: What AI Can and Can't Do for Your CharityFree
   You learn what AI assistants actually do, where they help and where they fail in charity work, and how the sector is using them, using dated survey evidence.
2. Level 2: Choosing Approved Tools and Following Your PolicyFree
   You learn how to check your workplace AI policy, compare the free, business and charity-discounted versions of tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Microsoft 365 Copilot, and pick one you're allowed to use.
3. Level 3: UK GDPR and What Never Goes Into a Prompt
   You learn the UK GDPR basics that apply when you use AI, and build a clear personal rule for which beneficiary, donor, volunteer and confidential information must never be pasted into a tool.
4. Level 4: Checking Output: Errors, Bias and Made-Up Facts
   You learn a repeatable way to check AI output for invented facts, false citations, outdated information and biased or stigmatising language before you use it.
5. Level 5: Drafting Funding Bids Honestly
   You learn a prompt workflow that turns your own evidence and project plans into a structured bid draft without inventing outcomes, statistics or capabilities.
6. Level 6: Reporting to Funders Without Overclaiming
   You learn how to use AI to organise monitoring data and case notes into a clear funder report that is honest about what went well, what didn't, and what changed.
7. Level 7: Supporter Appeals Within the Fundraising Code
   You learn to draft appeals and supporter emails with AI that are emotionally engaging but stay legal, open, honest and respectful under the Fundraising Regulator's Code of Fundraising Practice.
8. Level 8: Social Media Posts That Sound Like You
   You learn to use AI to plan and draft social media content in your charity's voice, with checks for accuracy, accessibility, imagery and reputational risk.
9. Level 9: Volunteer Recruitment and Coordination
   You learn to use AI to write inclusive volunteer role descriptions, rotas and briefings while keeping volunteer personal data and safer recruitment decisions out of the tool.
10. Level 10: Summarising Research and Policy Reliably
    You learn to summarise long reports, consultations and policy documents with AI, and to check those summaries against the original so nothing is distorted or invented.
11. Level 11: Service Delivery Support and Safeguarding
    You learn where AI can safely support frontline work, such as templates, signposting drafts and staff guidance, and where safeguarding and duty of care mean it must not be used.
12. Level 12: Measuring and Reporting Impact
    You learn to use AI to help design outcome measures, analyse anonymised survey responses and present impact honestly, including limits and uncertainty.
13. Level 13: Translation and Accessible Materials
    You learn to use AI for draft translations, Easy Read and plain English versions, and to know when a qualified translator or community reviewer is essential.
14. Level 14: Writing an AI Policy Trustees Can Stand Behind
    You learn how Charity Commission expectations on trustee duties, risk and decision-making apply to AI, and how to draft or improve a practical AI policy for your organisation.
15. Level 15: Being Open About AI Use
    You learn when and how to disclose AI use to funders, donors, beneficiaries and the public, and how to write disclosure statements that are honest without being alarming.
16. Level 16: Using AI to Grow Your Own Expertise
    You learn to use AI as a tutor and sparring partner that builds your judgement, through explaining, questioning and critiquing, rather than as a shortcut that replaces your skills.
17. Level 17: Colleagues, the Future and Your 30-Day Plan
    You learn to talk about AI constructively with managers and colleagues, consider honestly how charity roles may change, and build a personal 30-day plan.
18. Level 18: Final Challenge: A Charity Week With AI Exam
    You bring the whole course together by handling realistic charity scenarios end to end: choosing tools, protecting data, drafting, checking, disclosing and deciding what stays human.

Access

The first 2 levels are free with a free account. Every level, the podcast edition and the AI tutor come with All Access at £4.99/month or any Creator plan — see pricing.

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