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Our tools and resources are designed to help leaders assess and improve their data and evidence practices.

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Scaling Impact with AI: Emerging Patterns in Nonprofit Program Delivery

Scaling Impact with AI documents how 128 nonprofit organizations across the globe are using AI directly in program delivery — distinct from administrative or back-office functions. Drawing ...
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Equitable AI Adoption Resource Guide: Understanding Equitable AI Adoption in the Social and Education Sectors

The EAIA Resource Guide is organized around the EAIA Framework, which identifies eight topic areas organizations should consider on their AI adoption journey. For each area, it provides a cu ...
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AI Journey Map for Philanthropy

In 2023, we developed the Responsible AI Adoption Framework for Philanthropy in collaboration with the Technology Association of Grantmakers. Since then, AI has evolved dramatically — and ...
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A chart showing Project Evident's AI Enablement Map, organizing six stages of foundation AI adoption across four phases: Emerging, Engaging Individuals, Enabling Teams, and Ecosystem Building. Each stage includes key milestones and friction points.

Equitable AI Adoption Framework

Project Evident’s Outcomes AI Equitable AI Adoption Framework helps nonprofit organizations leverage AI while upholding their commitments to equity, safety, and responsibility. This Framew ...

Center for Leadership Equity: A Community Model of Professional Development 

Project Evident’s report, Center for Leadership Equity: A Community Model of Professional Development: An Early Exploration of Effectiveness, details a unique model for providing leade ...
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Equitable AI Adoption (EAIA): Highlighting AI in Action

At Project Evident, we believe AI can be a powerful tool to advance equity, impact, and learning — but only if adopted intentionally and sustainably. Our Equitable AI Adoption (EAIA) proje ...

Building Career Pathways for Young People

Our new report takes stock of what we know — and what we don’t — about building effective, equitable career pathways for youth under 25.

Funding the Future: Grantmaker Strategies in AI Investment

This new report looks at how philanthropic funders are approaching requests to fund the use of AI and offers recommendations to help funders accelerate AI grantmaking.
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Inspiring Action: Identifying the Social Sector AI Opportunity Gap

Inspiring Action: Identifying the Social Sector AI Opportunity Gap is a working paper developed by Project Evident and Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence& ...
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Responsible AI Adoption in Philanthropy

A holistic evaluation framework with pragmatic guidance to help grantmakers adopt AI in alignment with their core values.
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