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START AI RIGHT FOR NONPROFITS

Your Reader Resource Library

Seven practical tools to help you put Start AI Right into practice.

Use the resources to map AI use, set boundaries, clarify responsibility and build a more accountable approach across your organisation.

Start with what your organisation needs now. Return whenever you need the next tool.

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Start AI Right for Nonprofits

START HERE

Use the resources in order, or start where you need them.

Working through Start AI Right? Follow the resources from 01 to 07. Looking for something specific? Start with the tool your organisation needs now.

01

Start with visibility

Understand where and how AI is already being used across your organisation.

02

Build your approach

Work through boundaries, responsibilities and shared expectations.

03

Keep it current

Review your decisions as your organisation’s use of AI develops.

YOUR READER RESOURCES

Choose the tool you need

Follow 01 to 07 alongside the book, or go directly to the resource you need.

01

TRACKING TOOL

AI Visibility Register

Create visibility around where AI tools are already being used across your organisation.

Use this when: You need a clearer picture of what tools are being used, by whom and for what purpose.

Open AI Visibility Register
02

MAPPING TOOL

Human-AI Hybrid Map

Identify where AI supports the work and where human judgement, review and accountability need to stay in place.

Use this when: You need to decide what should stay human, where AI should assist and what could be safely delegated to AI.

Open Human-AI Hybrid Map
03

GOVERNANCE TOOL

Ownership & Escalation Map

Clarify who owns AI decisions and where staff should go when an issue needs review or escalation.

Use this when: People are unclear about who makes AI-related decisions or handles concerns.

Open Ownership & Escalation Map
04

TEMPLATE

Plain-Language Data Boundary Template

Set clearer boundaries around the information staff should and should not enter into AI tools.

Use this when: Your team needs clear boundaries around what information should and should not be entered into AI tools.

Open Data Boundary Template
05

TEAM GUIDE

AI Rules of the Road

Set simple organisational expectations for responsible day-to-day AI use.

Use this when: Staff are already experimenting with AI but shared expectations are unclear.

Open AI Rules of the Road
06

LEADERSHIP TOOL

AI Leadership Brief

Create a clear leadership view of how AI fits your organisation, priorities and responsibilities.

Use this when: You need to brief trustees or senior leaders on your organisation’s approach to AI.

Open AI Leadership Brief
07

TEAM TOOL

Playbook Huddle Agenda

Use this agenda to bring your team together, discuss responsible AI use and agree practical next steps.

Use this when: You want to turn the ideas in Start AI Right into a structured team conversation.

Open Playbook Huddle Agenda

ALL SEVEN RESOURCES

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MAKE THEM YOUR OWN

Editable versions for your organisation

Where editable versions are available, use them as a starting point and adapt the language to your organisation, team and existing policies.

EDITABLE RESOURCES

Editable Canva Resources

Access the editable versions of selected Start AI Right resources.

Open Editable Resources

YOUR DECISION-MAKING GUIDE

Keep SAFE AI™ beside you as you work

Use the SAFE AI™ Framework to review decisions as you work through the resources.

S Secure
A Accountable
F Future-Ready
E Empowered
A Aligned
I Inclusive
Start AI Right for Nonprofits

BACK TO THE BOOK

The resources support the work. The book gives you the context.

Return to Start AI Right for Nonprofits when you need more context, reflection questions or guidance behind the decisions you are making.

Read. Discuss. Decide. Document. Review.

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