Free AI resources & webinars
Integrate AI into your work responsibly
We've pulled together a selection of free* resources to help you integrate AI into your work seamlessly and responsibly. Whether you're just getting started or looking to deepen your approach, these resources support ethical, effective, and mission-driven AI-use.
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Webinar #1 Kickstart your nonprofit’s AI journey
Curious about AI but unsure where to start? This introductory session will break down artificial intelligence into key concepts, with a focus on generative AI and its practical applications for social good.
Webinar #2 Combat misinformation and online attacks
From election integrity to gender equity and migration narratives, AI can be both a threat and a solution when it comes to misinformation. This webinar explores how AI can detect and counter disinformation, protect vulnerable communities, and uphold democratic values.
Webinar #3 AI, ethics and governance
AI presents incredible opportunities but also ethical dilemmas. This session will explore responsible AI use, mitigating risks, and ensuring inclusion, cultural relevance, and accessibility. Learn how to develop an AI strategy, create governance frameworks, and understand the impacts of key regulations like the EU AI Act. Equip your nonprofit with the right tools to adopt AI responsibly.
Webinar #4 Enhancing international negotiations with AI
AI is reshaping how international negotiations unfold. This webinar examines how AI-powered tools can enhance diplomatic efforts, facilitate conflict resolution, and support cross-border collaboration. Whether you're in peacebuilding, policy advocacy, or humanitarian diplomacy, learn how AI can strengthen your negotiation strategies.
Webinar #5 Harness AI for efficient, localised humanitarian action
AI has the potential to revolutionise humanitarian response, from disaster relief to conflict zones. But how do we ensure local communities have access to these powerful tools? This session explores how AI can lower capacity barriers, equip grassroots organisations, and support ethical humanitarian interventions.
Webinar #6 AI + human creativity: Enhancing, not replacingn action
How can AI enhance - not replace - human ingenuity? This webinar explores how nonprofits can use AI to augment knowledge, creativity, and strategic decision-making. Learn how to leverage technology to drive social innovation while staying true to your organisation’s mission and values.
Getting started with AI
The following resources can help you master AI fundamentals.
Make Sense of It AI Playbook for Charities
Edd Baldry, Director of Design and Development at Make Sense of It, was a panelist for Webinar #1 | Kicking off your nonprofit’s AI journey. He and his team have created a dedicated playbook to help nonprofits implement AI safely and effectively.
Generative AI learning path
Microsoft and LinkedIn have developed a Career Essentials in Generative AI learning path to help you learn the skills needed to apply generative AI in your work.
AI Mail Assistant Agent
With your own Agent, scheduling workshops can be simple and seamless. Learn how Benjamin Müller, Partner Solution Architect at Microsoft Switzerland, built his own Email Assistant Agent to save time and eliminate scheduling headaches. Ready to create your own? Start building with Copilot Studio today.
AI Skills Navigator by Microsoft
Use AI to find a learning path that's right for you with the AI Skills Navigator by Microsoft, and unlock new opportunities with AI skills that are in demand now and in the future.
AI Literacy by Tea Mustać
Tea Mustać, Head of Operations for the Institute for Global Negotiation gave us the background on AI in Webinar #1 | Kicking off your nonprofit’s AI journey. Find out more tips from Tea below in her article on developing AI Literacy.
My Creative ChatGPT Playbook
Nikolaj Lykke Viborg, AI Advisor and Creative Strategist, shares how he turned ChatGPT into his creative partner. All of his learnings are compiled in The Creative ChatGPT Playbook, a 50+ page guide filled with prompts, workflows, and creative frameworks to help you generate standout ideas, transform concepts from initial thought to visual execution, and learn from real-world case studies like Nikolaj’s viral campaign WWF: The Hidden Cost. Designed to help you think like a creative director, it shows you how to create content that truly gets attention.
IMF Using Microsoft Tech
This 1-hour conference presentation focuses on how AI tools, particularly Microsoft's Copilot and various AI agents, can be used to improve daily work, especially in the development sector.
Learn from a nonprofit organization implementing AI
In 2024, our AI for Social Good webinar series partner CALP Network decided to take a structured approach to implementing AI. Read about their journey.
Manage meetings with AI
With your own Agent, managing meetings and follow-ups becomes effortless. See how Linda Fuchs, Partner Solution Sales Manager at Microsoft Switzerland, created her Secretary-Fuchs Agent to streamline meeting prep, notes, and follow-ups. Her personal digital assistant for staying on top of it all.
AI curiosity to collaboration
This 25-minute presentation demonstrates how Microsoft's AI tools can be used to process large amounts of information and automate various tasks, with a focus on the work of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
AI Compass for Nonprofits
Complete a few questions and it will analyse your organization’s AI-readiness, providing insight into what capacity building is needed to help your organization leverage the benefits, and navigate the risks, of AI.
AI research and tools
Our partners are researching how to implement AI across industries.
Learn with Globethics
Empower your organisation with ethical, inclusive, and practical knowledge on artificial intelligence. Globethics offers a curated collection of free resources designed to help you explore how AI can be used responsibly to promote human rights, build trust, and support social good. From international frameworks and white papers to educational tools on digital ethics and inclusive AI systems, these materials support thoughtful integration of AI into your work.
2024 Work Trend Index Annual Report
To help leaders and organizations overcome AI inertia, Microsoft and LinkedIn looked at how AI will reshape work and the labor market broadly, surveying 31,000 people across 31 countries, identifying labor and hiring trends from LinkedIn, and analyzing trillions of Microsoft 365 productivity signals as well as research with Fortune 500 customers. Learn more about AI’s implications for work.
AI, ethics and governance
Learn about how to implement AI effectively and responsibly.
AI Governance Framework for Nonprofits
This framework is by Microsoft and supports nonprofits with developing a clear and actionable roadmap for governance and AI adoption.
The training includes video overviews and downloadable documents tailored to organizations' current AI implementation status, with a focus on real-world use cases and productivity-driven scenarios.
Guiding AI Toward Fairness, Privacy & Justice
This 2024 article explores global efforts to align AI systems with core societal values—including fairness, privacy, and justice. It examines why value alignment is increasingly urgent, the challenges of embedding ethics into fast-moving technologies, and the collaborative approaches needed across industry, government, and civil society to ensure AI serves the public good.
How to Build a Contract Review Agent with Copilot
With your own Agent, contract reviews no longer drain time and resources. Discover how Karim Tejani, Head of Legal at Microsoft Switzerland, created a Contract Review Agent to accelerate analysis, improve consistency, and scale legal operations. Ready to create your own? Start building with Copilot Studio today.
EU AI Act Explorer
The European Union has introduced new legislation on artificial intelligence: The EU AI Act. It lays the foundations for the regulation of AI in the EU.
The AI Act Explorer enables you to explore the contents of the Act in an intuitive way, or search for parts that are most relevant to you. It contains the Artificial Intelligence Act, Official Journal version of 13 June 2024. Here you can learn how policymaking in the European Union works.
Harnessing AI ethically in nonprofits
Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers remarkable potential, but it also raises important ethical challenges. In the context of rapid evolutions, nonprofit organisations are beginning to explore how these AI tools can support their missions, from improving grant applications to enhancing decision-making.
EU AI Act Compliance Checker
The EU AI Act introduces new obligations to entities located within the EU and elsewhere.
Use this interactive tool to determine whether or not your AI system will be subject to these.
AI for Legal Professionals
The Microsoft AI for Legal Starter Kit includes lessons from General Counsels on Generative AI, use-cases for in-market attorneys and legal people managers, and tips for using Microsoft Copilot.AI bootcamp for legal professionals created by Microsoft.
Using AI to manage mis- and disinformation
How AI can help combat mis- and disinformation about migration
In this editorial, Marie McAuliffe, Head, Migration Research, at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) discusses how AI can help combat mis- and disinformation about migration.
Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change
The Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change aims to produce and gather evidence on the impact of disinformation on climate issues.
The International Fact-Checking Network
The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at Poynter was launched in 2015 to bring together the growing community of fact-checkers around the world. The network advocates for information integrity in the global fight against misinformation and supports fact-checkers through networking, capacity building and collaboration.
AI and democracy
The Kofi Annan Foundation and the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy convened the second in a series of thematic roundtables exploring the intersections of democracy and global governance as part of the project “Understanding the Links Between Multilateralism and Democracy to Tackle Global Challenges More Effectively”. The project seeks to further a common understanding of how democratic, ethical, and inclusive leadership is essential to solving global challenges.
Protecting the Public from Abusive AI-Generated Content
The purpose of this white paper by Microsoft is to encourage faster action against abusive AI-generated content by policymakers, civil society leaders, and the technology industry. It focuses on three things: 1. Illustrate and analyze the harms arising from abusive AI-generated content 2. Explain Microsoft’s approach 3. Offer policy recommendations to begin combating these problems
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Check out the Microsoft Digital Skills Centre for Nonprofits
This collaboration between TechSoup Courses and Microsoft has resulted in a suite of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Resources for Nonprofits. Unlock the power of AI at your nonprofit and start using groundbreaking technology to enhance your marketing, donor relations, research capabilities, and fundraising. Explore their collection of resources, designed specifically for changemakers like you.
Looking for resources to support AI integration into Program Management?
View Microsoft's learning collection, AI for nonprofits: Program management
This collection is aligned to program management at nonprofits. Learn how AI tools such as Copilot can help to manage everyday tasks to increase efficiency, automate time consuming tasks, and give time back to your team.
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