Comprehensive AI Strategy and Evaluation for Foundations

Impacts AI

Your Foundation Is Navigating AI
Get the Expertise To Do It Right

From evaluating the scalability of social impact AI solutions, to creating impact measurement strategies for AI, to developing your AI strategic plan to - we provide the comprehensive strategic guidance and frameworks you need for your foundation to navigate AI responsibly.

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Founded by Addie Achan, former Director of AI at Fast Forward, AI Engineer at The Trevor Project, and Software Engineer at Google.

Named Google.org AI for Social Good Fellow, and OpenAI's "Nonprofit Hero".

THE CHALLENGE

Why AI Is Different
And Why Most Foundations Struggle With It

Foundations are under pressure to engage with AI. Board members are asking questions. Grantees are proposing AI solutions. Your peers are launching AI initiatives.

But AI isn't like other technologies:

Fast Moving Landscape

What's cutting-edge today is table stakes in six months. Your team needs frameworks that adapt, not checklists that become obsolete.

Uniquely High Stakes

AI can either close equity gaps or widen them. A bad grant in traditional programming wastes money. A bad AI grant can actively harm vulnerable communities.

New Expertise

Your program officers are experts in criminal justice, education, or health—not machine learning, bias testing, or algorithmic accountability.

Hype vs Reality

Every proposal claims their AI will "revolutionize" something. How do you distinguish substance from snake oil?

Redefining Strategy

It's not just "should we fund this grant?" It's "should we even be funding AI? What's our stance? How does this fit our theory of change?"

HOW WE HELP

THREE WAYS WE CAN WORK TOGETHER

AI Strategy & Positioning

Understand how AI can influence impact measurement, strategic plans, funding priorities or Theory of Change

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Grantmaking Support

Assess AI proposals through the PRACTICAL decision architecture and build AI programs

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Workshops & Training

Improve your team's understanding and evaluations of AI through case studies and frameworks

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Who We Work With

Funders

Types of Questions We Can Help With

"How do develop our position as we explore launching an AI initiative?"
"We have 5 AI proposals in our pipeline, which should we fund?"
"How can our non-technical staff evaluate AI proposals independently?"
"How do we design our AI grantmaking program from the ground up?"
+ Many More!

Builders

Common Questions We Can Help With

"What gaps exist in our AI solution and how do we address them?"
"What's our financial model - both as we pilot and at 10x scale?"
"How do we best prepare for funder due diligence or a grant application?"
"What should our product roadmap and strategic plan look like?"
+ Many More!

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Our Foundation - PRACTICAL
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Everything that we do is built upon PRACTICAL - a decision architecture we made that tests the 9 key diminensions any AI-powered social Impact solution should pass, with Equity & Safety + Evidence & Uncertainty embedded throughout.