A Geaux Learn Training Program
THE AI WORKBENCH
Hands-On AI Training for Nonprofit Teams
Bring the work you're already doing. Learn how to do it better with AI.
The AI Workbench helps nonprofit teams move beyond experimenting with AI and begin using it in practical, repeatable ways across their everyday work.
Organizations choose the training topics that align with their priorities. During each live Workbench, participants learn the strategy, build alongside the facilitator, and apply what they learn to real nonprofit work.
No technical background required.
AI training should lead to something your team can actually use.
Many teams have already experimented with tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Copilot.
The challenge is moving from:
“We use AI sometimes.”
to:
“We know how to use AI for the work we actually do.”
The AI Workbench is built for that next step. Participants do not spend the session simply watching demonstrations or collecting prompts. They build.
LEARN IT.
Understand how AI can support a specific area of nonprofit work.
BUILD IT.
Follow a guided process to create useful prompts, tools, and workflows.
PUT IT TO WORK.
Adapt what you build so your team can continue using it after the training.
Every Workbench is practical, guided, and hands-on.
Choose Your Workbench
Your organization chooses the topics that match its priorities.
AI Foundations for Nonprofit Teams
Build confidence using generative AI, improve prompting, understand responsible-use practices, and identify the work AI can appropriately support.
You build:
A reusable prompting approach, responsible-use checklist, and first workplace AI workflow.
AI for Grant Writing
Learn a repeatable AI-supported process for researching opportunities, assessing funder fit, developing proposal content, refining drafts, and reviewing applications.
You build:
A grant development workflow and reusable prompt system.
AI for Fundraising
Use AI to support fundraising campaign planning, audience development, messaging, outreach, and follow-up while keeping donor relationships human-centered.
You build:
A campaign brief, fundraising message, outreach sequence, sample appeal, and reusable workflow.
The Donor Stewardship Lab
Turn basic donor information into a practical plan for strengthening donor relationships throughout the year.
You build:
Three donor segments, a 12-month stewardship plan, monthly actions, sample donor communication, and reusable prompts.
From Mission to Message
Turn your mission, programs, and impact into clear messaging that can be adapted for different audiences and communication channels.
You build:
A core organizational message and repeatable content adaptation workflow.
AI for Everyday Work
Move beyond using AI only to write. Learn practical ways to use AI for research, planning, meetings, documents, summaries, recurring tasks, and information organization.
You build:
Practical workflows for the everyday work your team already does.
Not sure which Workbenches fit your team?
Find Your WorkbenchNot just information. Actual work products.
What participants build depends on the Workbench their organization selects.
Nobody leaves The AI Workbench with only notes.
Participants leave with something they can continue using.
Choose Your Training Package
Start with one priority or build a broader training series for your team.
Single Workbench
$2,500
One focused 90-minute hands-on training experience.
Best for:
Organizations with one immediate training priority.
2-Workbench Bundle
$4,500
Choose any two Workbench topics based on your organization's immediate priorities.
Best for:
Teams with one or two clearly defined areas where they want to strengthen AI use.
3-Workbench Bundle
$6,500
Choose three Workbench topics to build practical AI capability across multiple areas of your organization.
Best for:
Teams ready to move from occasional AI use toward more consistent workplace application.
Flagship Series
5-Workbench Series
$10,000
A deeper multi-session learning experience designed to help staff build and apply AI-supported workflows across several functions.
Suggested pathway
AI Foundations → Three Priority Workbenches → AI for Everyday Work
Best for:
Organizations ready to develop broader AI capability across their team.
Standard Workbench sessions are approximately 90 minutes and designed for teams of up to 25 participants.
On-site engagements may include additional delivery and travel fees based on location and scheduling.
Every Workbench Includes
- Live facilitator-led training
- Hands-on guided practice
- Participant learning resources
- Reusable prompts and workflow tools
- Practical nonprofit examples
- Responsible-use guidance
- Implementation resources participants can continue using after the training
Training is designed for active participation. Participants should join with access to a laptop and an approved generative AI tool whenever possible.
Hands-On Doesn't Have to Mean In-Person
Live Virtual Workbench
Interactive national delivery with participants working alongside the facilitator from their own laptops.
This is not a passive webinar. Participants build throughout the session and receive guided support as they work.
On-Site Workbench
Bring The AI Workbench directly to your organization for an in-person, hands-on learning experience.
On-site delivery is available based on location and scheduling. Additional travel and delivery fees may apply.
Built for Teams Doing Real Nonprofit Work
The AI Workbench is especially well suited for small and midsized organizations that want practical AI skills without needing a technical background or extensive AI consulting engagement.
- Executive Directors and nonprofit leaders
- Development and fundraising teams
- Grant writers
- Communications teams
- Program staff
- Operations and administrative staff
- Cross-functional nonprofit teams
Funders + Capacity-Building Organizations
The AI Workbench can also be delivered as a sponsored training experience for cohorts of nonprofit organizations. Foundations, associations, intermediaries, and other capacity-building partners can sponsor Workbench training for multiple organizations.
AI supports the work. People remain responsible for it.
The AI Workbench teaches participants to use AI as a tool for thinking, drafting, organizing, researching, and working more efficiently without handing over the judgment that belongs to people.
Responsible-use considerations are incorporated throughout the training, including:
- privacy
- sensitive organizational information
- accuracy
- verification
- bias
- appropriate human review
- responsible use of AI-generated content
The goal is not to automate everything. The goal is to use AI where it genuinely helps.
Meet Your Facilitator
Dr. Amber Alexis
Dr. Amber Alexis is an educational consultant, academic success strategist, and AI practitioner who helps people build confidence using emerging technology through practical, hands-on learning experiences.
Through Geaux Learn Educational Solutions, she develops and facilitates AI training for organizations, professionals, educators, and community audiences.
She is also the founder of the Louisiana AI Literacy Association, an initiative focused on expanding practical AI literacy and confidence across Louisiana.
Her training approach
Make AI understandable. Make it useful. Give people the opportunity to actually use it.
Not Sure Where to Start?
You don't need to know which training package your team needs before reaching out.
Complete the AI Workbench Training Selector to identify the areas where practical AI training could be most useful to your organization.
Your organization chooses the priorities.
The AI Workbench provides the training, tools, and guided practice to help your team put AI to work.
Find Your WorkbenchTakes approximately 5 minutes.
Bring the work you're already doing.
Learn how to do it better with AI.
Whether your team wants to improve grant development, fundraising, donor relationships, communications, or everyday productivity, The AI Workbench provides a practical place to start.
THE AI WORKBENCH
Learn it. Build it. Put it to work.
A training program from Geaux Learn Educational Solutions.