Loudoun Nonprofit Academy Workshop: A Practical AI Session for Nonprofit Teams
Something fell through this week. A donor who went quiet. A decision that got raised again because nobody wrote down what you settled last time. A report you meant to pull. A conversation you have now had four times.
None of it is a crisis. That is exactly why it keeps happening. The steady, invisible movement of a week away from the shape you meant it to have is what this session calls the Drift, and most teams do not catch it until something breaks.
This working session names the four places drift shows up: decisions, capacity, people, and patterns. Participants then learn the Friday Four, a four-question ritual that uses AI as a thinking partner to catch the slip while it is still small. The session covers what to actually do with AI, what to keep it away from, and how to build the habit in thirty minutes a week without adding another tool to maintain.
Participants work with their own real examples in the room.
What you will walk away with:
None of it is a crisis. That is exactly why it keeps happening. The steady, invisible movement of a week away from the shape you meant it to have is what this session calls the Drift, and most teams do not catch it until something breaks.
This working session names the four places drift shows up: decisions, capacity, people, and patterns. Participants then learn the Friday Four, a four-question ritual that uses AI as a thinking partner to catch the slip while it is still small. The session covers what to actually do with AI, what to keep it away from, and how to build the habit in thirty minutes a week without adding another tool to maintain.
Participants work with their own real examples in the room.
What you will walk away with:
- The four places work slips, and how to spot it in your own week
- The Friday Four prompt set, tested live on your own work
- A practical line for what AI should and should not touch in a small shop
- A thirty-minute ritual you can start this Friday with no new software
Intended Audience: Development and Communication staff. As well as anyone else involved in creating and sharing your annual report such as Nonprofit Executive Directors / CEOs, board members and volunteers.
Loudoun Nonprofit Academy Workshop: A...
Date and Time
Tuesday Sep 29, 2026
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
Check-in and Networking 8:45-9:00 a.m.
Workshop 9:00 -11:00 a.m.
Location
The Claude Moore Nonprofit Training Center
at the Community Foundation for Loudoun and
Northern Fauquier Counties
714 E Market St,
Leesburg, VA 20176
Fees/Admission
$35 | Members
$55 | Future Members
Coffee and light refreshments will be provided.
