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Green: When You Can Move Forward
The three questions that tell you whether an AI use is approved, protected, and accountable.
Key questionAre we approved, protected, and accountable?
Free 37-Minute AI Use Policy Workshop for Nonprofits
Your Nonprofit Is Using AI. Who Decided What's Allowed? Protect Your Mission Without Stopping Innovation.
Your nonprofit may already be using artificial intelligence in fundraising, grant writing, communications, HR, and program delivery. But who decides which tools are approved, what data can be shared, and when AI use needs human review?
Learn how to put your AI use policy into practice with the Green Light, Red Flag framework. Know when an AI use can proceed, what needs review, and who has authority to decide.
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Free Workshop: Can We Use AI For That?
Join Margaret Spence for a free 37-minute, on-demand AI Use Policy workshop designed for nonprofit executives, staff, operations leaders, and boards. Learn to apply the Green Light, Red Flag framework to identify approved uses, recognize risks, and clarify who has authority to make AI decisions.
You'll also receive an AI Decision Guide to help your organization evaluate real-world AI use cases and document its next steps.
What is an AI use policy for nonprofits?
An AI use policy establishes practical guidelines for how staff and leaders may use artificial intelligence, which information requires protection, who can approve AI tools, and when AI-related decisions must be reviewed or escalated.
Why do nonprofit organizations need an AI use policy?
Nonprofits may use AI for grant writing, fundraising, communications, HR, client services, and program operations. Clear policies help protect sensitive information, establish accountability, and reduce uncertainty about which uses are appropriate.
Your Nonprofit Needs More Than an AI Use Policy. It Needs to Know Who Decides.
- Is this AI tool approved for this use?
- Can we put donor or client information into it?
- Who owns the decision if the output is wrong?
- Who has authority to approve an AI use: the executive director, a department leader, IT, HR, or the board?
- What happens when everyone has a role, but no one can say yes?
- When does an AI use require escalation?
An AI use policy for nonprofits should make everyday decisions clearer: what's allowed, what needs review, and who can say yes or stop.
What you'll learn in 37 minutes
Green, Yellow, or Red? Make Your Nonprofit's AI Use Rules Actionable.
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Yellow: When You Need to Slow Down and Ask
How to spot uncertainty around authority, data, privacy, intellectual property, human oversight, and accountability.
Key questionWhat is unclear, and who needs to decide?
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Red: When You Stop and Escalate
The situations where your team should not proceed without the right people involved.
Key questionAre we exposed, unauthorized, or unable to defend the decision?
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Stuck in Yellow: The Approval Bottleneck
Sometimes the AI is not the bottleneck. The decision process is. You'll learn to ask:
- Who owns the business decision?
- Who has approval authority, and who can stop it?
- What evidence do they need?
- What happens when governance functions disagree?
The reframeA governance delay is not always a risk problem. Sometimes it is a decision-rights problem.
Included with your registration
Your Nonprofit AI Use Decision Guide
Use the guide to review a real nonprofit AI use, spot sensitive-data questions, identify the right decision-maker, and document the next step.
- Evaluate a current AI use case
- Classify it as Green, Yellow, or Red
- Surface the governance questions nobody has answered
- Identify the right approval authority
- Document the next action before anyone moves forward
Built for the People Who Protect the Mission
You do not need to be an AI expert. You need a clear way to decide, together.
Margaret Spence
Your workshop leader
AI governance strategist, former insurance risk executive, founder of Inclusion Learning Lab, and author of When AI Breaks the Law: AI Governance for Talent Leaders.
Margaret translates emerging AI risk, policy, and law into the everyday decisions leaders make, so organizations can adopt AI without putting the trust they have built at risk.
Protect the Mission. Keep Moving Forward.
Move.
Question.
Escalate.
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