Build an AI position your board can stand behind.
The Executive Position is a four-to-six-week AI governance engagement for nonprofit boards and executive teams.
THE EXECUTIVE POSITIONYour staff already hold several positions on AI. Yours makes one official.
One leader sees opportunity, and another sees risk. Staff are already experimenting, and funders, accreditors, and board members have started asking questions. Together, your leadership decides:
where AI serves the mission
which risks you accept and which stay off-limits
who oversees AI use, and how
how you explain those choices to staff, donors, and funders
The aim is a position your leaders share and can defend.
You are in good company.
A 2026 survey of 346 nonprofits found that 92 percent use AI and nearly half have no formal AI policy. The gap you see is the sector's gap, and closing it now puts your organization ahead.
Source: The 2026 Nonprofit AI Adoption Report, Virtuous & Fundraising.AI
The Executive PositionHow The Executive Position works.
1. Find where you stand.
We interview leaders, hold listening sessions with staff, and review how AI already touches your governance, fundraising, marketing, and daily work. The findings become your Judgment Gap Report: a clear map of where staff practice and leadership decisions part ways.
2. Decide together.
A facilitated working session with your executive team, board committee, or full board, built from the Judgment Gap Report. We bring assumptions, concerns, and disagreements into the open, because a position holds only when everyone has said what they think.
3. Put it in writing.
We turn the session into a practical written position covering principles, risk tolerance, oversight, and responsible use. You also receive a one-page public summary for donors, funders, journalists, and partners.
4. Carry it forward.
Briefing materials help leadership share the position with staff, and a 30-day follow-up confirms that it holds in practice.
What your leaders walk away with.
A shared understanding of the AI issues that matter most
A clear, written organizational position
Defined oversight and responsibility
Consistent language for staff, donors, and funders
A foundation for staff policy, fundraising, and future AI use
Most important, your leaders can explain the position on their own.
Everything included.
Executive interviews and staff listening sessions
The Judgment Gap Report
A facilitated leadership or board session
A written executive position
A one-page public summary
A 30-day follow-up conversation
Engagements begin at $16,500. Expanded engagements, including full-board retreats, formal adoption, and accreditation-facing documentation, are scoped to your needs.
Questions people ask before they begin.
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About 20 hours across four to six weeks, most of it in interviews and one facilitated session. We handle the research, drafting, and materials.
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Yes. We scale interviews and sessions to your team, and the written position serves an organization of fifteen as well as one of five hundred.
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You are right on time. Most nonprofits use AI before they have a policy, and leaders who decide now are ahead of their sector.
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It speeds them up. Clear guardrails let staff keep working with confidence, and they no longer have to guess what leadership will allow.
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Yes. Expanded engagements include formal adoption support and a board-vote process.
Start with a conversation.
Tell us where you stand. In 30 minutes, we'll talk through your situation and whether The Executive Position fits.
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