Project Evident Will Partner With Philanthropic Leader Chantal Forster to Design Learning Cohorts for Funders Seeking Support for AI Adoption

Boston, MA — December 11, 2025 — Project Evident has received a 24-month grant from The David & Lucile Packard Foundation to build AI learning accelerators for funders to enhance organizational efficiency and mission outcomes. This project builds on Project Evident’s expertise in working with funders, as well as the Responsible AI Adoption Framework for Philanthropy, co-authored by Project Evident and Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) in 2023. The project aims to address the lack of services to support organizational adoption  of AI by funders. The development of AI learning accelerators for funders is in collaboration with Chantal Forster, AI Strategy Advisor to philanthropy and former Executive Director of TAG.

“We are excited to bring to funders our knowledge from designing and leading AI adoption accelerators for nonprofit practitioners,” said Sarah Di Troia, Managing Director, OutcomesAI and Chief Innovation Officer at Project Evident. “The heart of AI adoption is change management; learning with a community of peers enables better problem solving and opportunity identification when implementing AI.” 

Building on Project Evident’s existing expertise working with funders, the project will focus on two priorities: 

• Curriculum: Develop a curriculum for a cohort-based learning model that enables funders to adopt AI for enhanced productivity and insight generation. 
• Pilot Cohorts: Pilot two funder learning cohorts to test the viability of a sustainable service offering, and evaluate the success of a group learning model that enables more scalable, cost-effective, and efficient AI implementation for funders.  

“Partnering with Project Evident brings together the best of two worlds,” said Forster. “Their depth in data, evidence, and AI adoption and my commitment to helping foundations use technology and AI to strengthen nonprofit work ensures that funders can navigate and innovate during a period of rapid change.

Interested in being part of a cohort? Sign up here.

For more information, contact mbirnie@projectevident.org.

About Project Evident
Project Evident harnesses the power of data, evidence, and technology to achieve greater impact. We believe that by empowering practitioners to drive their own data and evidence building while also strengthening the surrounding ecosystem, we can increase the number of effective solutions in the social and education sectors and scale them faster, ultimately producing stronger, more meaningful, and more equitable outcomes for students and communities.