Description

In Part 2 of the AI Maturity Model for Nonprofits webinar, Carolyn Woodard and Mimi Yeh, Engagement Director at PTKO, and George Danilovics, VP of Technology at AHIP, pick up where Part 1 left off, moving from the framework itself to the harder question of what it takes to make AI adoption become quiet, boring, and everywhere.

Mimi and George walk through what it looks like when AI stops being an initiative and becomes infrastructure, pointing to the moment when people stop announcing they used it, the way no one says "I used Outlook to send this email." The session closes with a candid Q&A on tool volatility, vendor risk, and how to address genuine ethical concerns about AI when your colleagues or community have serious reservations.

Haven't listened to Part 1 yet? Find it in your podcast feed.

This episode covers:

• Why you should map each team separately against the five maturity stages rather than assigning your organization a single score, and how that map becomes a diagnostic you can actually act on.
• Why AI competency training deserves the same recurring, role-based architecture as security awareness training, not a one-time brown bag.
• Action items you can start this week and this quarter to move one team forward one stage at a time.
• How to think about vendor risk and tool volatility when planning for long-term AI integration, and why documenting your strategy matters more than committing to any one tool, and lets you move between vendors more easily down the road.
• Practical guidance on addressing ethical and social concerns about AI, including when those conversations belong at the board level.

Resources Mentioned:

• AI Maturity Model for Nonprofits Webinar – Community IT Innovators – https://communityit.com/webinar-ai-maturity-model-for-nonprofits/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=friday-tech-topics
• AI Journey Guide and Supplemental Resources – PTKO – https://ptko.io/ai-toolkit/
• Using AI to Build a Data Lake for Nonprofits Webinar (August 19) – Community IT Innovators – https://communityit.com/webinar-ai-in-practice-for-nonprofits/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=friday-tech-topics
• Nonprofit IT Management Community – Reddit – https://www.reddit.com/r/nonprofitITmanagement

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• on reddit/r/nonprofitITmanagement
• on the Community IT website

Thanks for listening.