AI for Everyday Automation: Practical Tools You Can Use This Week

Description

AI tools are moving fast — but the question nonprofits keep asking isn't "What can AI do?" It's "What should we do with it, and where do we even start?"

In this session, Dan Lombardi shares a practical framework for finding where AI fits your actual workflows, based on how he uses it daily in his own nonprofit work — not just for drafting, but for automating repetitive tasks, connecting systems, and pulling insights out of data that used to take days. You'll work through three real use cases at ascending levels of complexity: communications, donor outreach, and data analysis, each grounded in the same principle — AI handles the repetition, you handle the judgment.

Whatever tools exist by the time you're reading this, the underlying approach stays the same: audit your workflows, identify the hand-off points, and build in human review. You'll leave with a repeatable process you can apply to any tool, task, or budget.