Recipes, wins, and the route from first prompt to autopilot. AI for doing your job better — not usage theater.
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of organizations now use AI tools.
report major improvement in their ability to achieve their mission.
use AI ad hoc, with no documented workflows. Knowledge walks out the door.
That gap is why this page exists. Documented recipes and shared wins are how we land in the 7%. Sources: Virtuous 2026 Nonprofit AI Adoption Report; MIT State of AI in Business 2025.
Five levels, named the way EC names things. Check off what you've done — each action earns XP and unlocks the next level. Progress saves in this browser. In one study, people using AI finished 12.2% more tasks, 25.1% faster, at higher quality. The XP is a game. The hours back are not.
Kickoff is July 21. The checkpoint is day 90. Nobody's graded on speed — this is the route, not a race. The plane shows where we are today.
Every recipe is a prompt you can copy, paste, and adapt. Fill in the [brackets]. Recipes marked real EC build are already running in production here. Made one that works? It belongs on this page — post it in the Claude Slack channel.
The best use cases aren't the flashy ones — they're the tasks you do so often you stopped noticing them. Tap anything that sounds like your week.
Real work by real teammates. Not demos — things running in production right now. The dashed slots are reserved for you.
1) Do a thing with Claude. 2) Post it in the Claude Slack channel — the prompt, what it made, what it saved. 3) It goes up here and gets featured at show-and-tell. Honest experiments beat polished case studies. Failures count double — they teach more.
Claude without context is a stranger with a keyboard. Claude with context is a colleague. These six blocks are the onboarding packet you'd hand a new hire — mission, history, strategy, programs, voice, and guardrails. Load them once and every conversation after gets smarter.
The full AI Use Policy exists, and it's short. These three rules cover 95% of situations.
Before you paste, ask: "would I be comfortable if this left the room?" Founder names + their financials, donor data, applicant PII — swap in placeholders.
Every AI output goes through a human before it ships. You are accountable for what you send, post, or publish — whether or not Claude helped write it. AI drafts. You decide.
Before anything AI-made is final: Fact check — did it invent a date or program detail? Tone check — does it sound like the EC or a robot? Security check — did a founder's name or number slip through?
Why the official account matters: our nonprofit plan doesn't train on EC data. Free personal accounts may. Same Claude, different vault — do EC work on the EC account.