How-to
Turn meeting notes into action items
AI note-takers can turn a meeting into a summary, decisions, and action items. Use them to capture the call, then check the details before sharing the notes as the record.
Leadership
Strategy, policy, and modeling healthy AI adoption for your team.
How-tos for leadership
Prompts for leadership
Prompt
Campaign Pre-Mortem
Before you commit to a campaign or project plan, ask AI to imagine it has already failed — and tell you why.
Prompt
Action Alert: Email and Social Versions
A bill is moving and you need to mobilize supporters to contact their legislators this week.
Case Studies for leadership
Case study
Applicant intake research with a human decision
A capacity-building services program uses an n8n workflow to research each new applicant, compile a source-linked brief, and post a summary to Slack — so the team starts every review with consistent context.
Guides for leadership
Guide
Should you worry about law enforcement accessing your AI conversations?
Major AI vendors and meeting recorders will hand over conversation content when compelled by valid legal process, and both OpenAI and Anthropic report doing exactly that — but most reported cases so far involve a phone or laptop seized from a suspect, not chat data pulled from the vendor.
Guide
How to pick the right AI tools for your team
How to divide an AI budget across a team: a paid assistant seat for everyone plus a meeting recorder, specialist tools for specialist roles, the AI features already inside your existing software, and heavier plans for the few people who will use them.
Guide
Create your organization's AI policy
A section-by-section worksheet for writing an AI policy your staff will use, with starter questions for each section and a skeleton outline you can copy.
Guide
The six pillars of AI transformation
A working framework for organizational AI adoption: six areas — narrative, tools, training, guardrails, workflows, and rhythm — that need attention together for experiments to build lasting capability.
Guide
Set up Claude for your organization
A practical walkthrough of setting up a Claude Team account for a nonprofit: verification and discounts, admin choices, connectors and shared skills, privacy settings, and recommended defaults for advocacy orgs.
Guide
Common staff concerns about AI
The objections staff often raise about AI, taken seriously rather than dismissed — with what is true in each, the data behind it, and language options for the conversations leaders are already having.
Guide
Data security and privacy basics for AI tools
A simple four-tier model for deciding what data can go into AI tools, what to check before you trust a vendor, and practical defaults a small organization can adopt this week.
Talks & Trainings for leadership
Training
Building Your Organization's AI Strategy — AVA Summit 2026
Our AVA Summit talk on fluidity and agency in a changing world: six lanes every organization's AI strategy needs to cover — with the full slide deck to use with your team.
Tool Overviews for leadership
Tool overview
ChatGPT
OpenAI's general AI assistant for drafting, summarizing, analyzing files, and multi-step research. The most widely recognized tool of its kind, and often the one your staff have already tried.
Tool overview
Faunalytics Lens
A free AI research assistant that answers questions using Faunalytics' library of 6,000+ human-vetted animal advocacy research summaries, with citations to the underlying sources.
Tool overview
Gemini
Google's general AI assistant, built into Gmail, Docs, and Drive. Eligible nonprofits get the premium features at no cost through Google Workspace for Nonprofits, which makes it the cheapest serious starting point for most teams.
Tool overview
Claude
A general AI assistant from Anthropic for drafting, summarizing, analyzing files, and thinking through problems. For most staff, this is the right first tool to learn.
FAQs for leadership
FAQ
What do other organizations' AI policies look like?
Four organizations serving the animal advocacy movement publish full AI policies covering values, tools, and day-to-day rules. One is notably more permissive than the rest. Compare their choices, then adapt the parts that fit your organization.
FAQ
What does AI actually cost for a small organization?
Nonprofit plans can reduce the bill sharply. Standard paid seats usually cost tens of dollars per person each month; automation platforms can be inexpensive at small scale; APIs charge separately by usage.
FAQ
Is our data used to train AI models?
It depends on the vendor, plan, and settings — business and API tiers usually do not train on your data by default, consumer plans vary, and policies change, so check and document your settings.
Want help putting this to work?
Vegan Hacktivists offers free AI and automation support to animal protection organizations — from a first conversation to a full build.
