<p><span class="p-body">AI has created a pivotal moment for mission-driven organizations across the fundraising and philanthropic sectors. Through courses including <a href="https://www.sps.nyu.edu/courses/PHIL1-CE9454-ai-for-impact-boost-your-marketability-and-organizational-gro.html">AI for Impact: Human-Centered Strategies for Innovation and Impact</a>,<a href="https://www.sps.nyu.edu/courses/PHIL1-CE9126-ai-for-impact-advanced-lab-building-and-applying-custom-ai-ag.html"> AI for Impact: Advanced Lab: Building and Applying Custom AI Agents</a>, <a href="https://www.sps.nyu.edu/courses/PHIL1-CE9335-ai-powered-digital-storytelling-for-fundraising-tools-strateg.html">AI-Powered Digital Storytelling for Fundraising</a>, and <a href="https://www.sps.nyu.edu/courses/GLOB1-CE8100-ai-readiness-strategic-skills-for-professionals.html">AI Readiness: Strategic Skills for Professionals</a>,&nbsp;the <a href="https://www.sps.nyu.edu/about/academic-divisions-and-departments/center-for-global-affairs.html">Center for Global Affairs</a>' Heyman Center for Philanthropy offers dynamic programming to help students and professionals maximize their use of these valuable tools.</span></p> <p><span class="p-body">Adjunct Assistant Professor <a href="https://www.sps.nyu.edu/faculty-directory/13092-elizabeth-n-ngonzi.html">Elizabeth “Liz” Ngonzi</a>, who developed the first AI-focused courses for the Heyman Center, notes that today’s AI moment echoes earlier technological turning points she's witnessed across her 30-year career in digital transformation. &quot;Today, AI is becoming a critical capability for nonprofit and fundraising professionals because it allows organizations to scale insight, engagement, and impact in ways that were previously out of reach,&quot; she says. &quot;It can help analyze stakeholder needs, personalize donor communications, summarize conversations, identify emerging trends, and free staff to focus more energy on the human work that drives mission and impact.&quot;</span></p>

<p><span class="p-body">&quot;Over the next five to ten years,&quot; predicts Ngonzi, &quot;the organizations that benefit most will be those that treat AI as part of capacity building, not merely as a technology add-on. That means investing in AI literacy, governance, and workforce readiness, not just tools. It also means being intentional about where AI fits and where human judgment must remain central. The nonprofits that thrive will be those that combine mission clarity, strong values, and practical AI fluency to extend their reach, deepen their impact, and continue evolving to meet the needs of the communities they serve.&quot;</span></p> <p><span class="p-body">&quot;Nonprofits have always had powerful stories,&quot; notes Adjunct Instructor <a href="https://www.sps.nyu.edu/faculty-directory/20853-boris-kievsky.html">Boris Kievsky</a>. &quot;They just haven’t had the capacity to fully leverage them. AI changes that dynamic.&quot; Kievsky calls AI “a superpower that gives comms professionals the ability to do more with the stories, knowledge, and impact data they already have.”</span></p> <p><span class="p-body">&quot;AI can help a one-person comms team turn a program update, interview transcript, grant report, or donor story into website copy, email, social posts, talking points, visuals, audio scripts, videos, and more,&quot; he adds. &quot;It can then translate those materials into any number of languages. That has amazing implications for accessibility, reach, engagement, and connection.&quot;</span></p> <p><span class="p-body">Keep ahead of the curve in global and public affairs by exploring all of <a href="https://www.sps.nyu.edu/about/academic-divisions-and-departments/center-for-global-affairs.html">CGA's programming</a>, including graduate degrees, and professionally focused continuing education courses and certificates.</span></p>