Generative AI helps impact teams be more productive, creative, and effective in serving their communities. In fact, Google.org’s funders report that AI allows him to achieve his goals in a third of the time at nearly half the cost.
However, a recent Google.org survey found that while 4 out of 5 nonprofits believe generative AI could be applied to their work, nearly half believe their organization is currently using this technology. They say they don’t use technology. They cite lack of tools, awareness, training and funding as the biggest barriers to adoption.
To help nonprofits take full advantage of this technology, we’re announcing Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI. This is a six-month program that supports nonprofit organizations developing high-impact generative AI applications. Our first cohort includes 21 organizations focused on areas such as climate, economic opportunity, health, education, and crisis response. In addition to free support from technical training, workshops, mentors, and a dedicated AI coach, Google.org has provided more than $20 million in funding for the entire project.
Through the Google.org Fellowship, a team of Googlers will work full-time with three of these nonprofits (Tarjimly, Benefits Data Trust, and mRelief) for up to six months to develop their proposed generative AI tools. We will help you build it.
Learn about some of the organizations’ projects below and read more about other Google accelerator programs.
- Benefits Data Trust uses large language models (LLMs) to create an AI-powered assistant that helps caseworkers and other front-line workers help low-income claimants access and enroll in public benefits. Building.
- Beyond 12 is developing a generative AI-powered college coach that provides coaching at scale to first-generation college students and students in under-resourced communities.
- CareerVillage is developing new AI Career Coach activities to help underrepresented people navigate their career paths and achieve better employment outcomes.
- Climate Policy Radar is building an open digital database and knowledge graph of climate law and policy with an AI-enabled generative search interface to help climate leaders make evidence-based decisions.
- CodePath launches an AI tutoring and mentorship solution that provides instant, personalized career support to underserved communities.
- EIDU uses generative AI to provide tutoring services to low- and middle-income countries through content for teachers and digital learning exercises customized for students.
- Full Fact builds generative AI tools to analyze and summarize large amounts of health misinformation across a variety of media, reducing the workload of fact checkers.
- IDinsight, Inc. provides fast and accurate AI-powered responses to health-related inquiries from new or expectant mothers in South Africa.
- Jacaranda Health uses natural language processing (NLP) trained in African languages to scale digital health services for mothers in underserved communities.
- Justicia Lab creates AI assistants that help immigrants understand their options for gaining legal status. We provide practical information throughout the process and provide customized guidance on the path to immigration relief.
- Materiom creates generative AI tools to help entrepreneurs build and test recipes for compostable biomaterials to help transform the packaging and textile industries into renewable ones.
- mRelief has created an assistant to help you apply for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits in the United States.
- Partnership to End Addiction uses AI to enhance the reach and quality of addiction support services for families by building training simulations and quality assurance tools.
- Quill.org is building new tools to provide students with instant AI-powered feedback and coaching on writing and reading comprehension activities. This helps students learn new skills quickly while saving teachers time.
- Tabiya’s generative AI tools provide job seekers in low- and middle-income countries with tailored, relevant advice at scale, enabling better job matches, greater gender equality, and higher incomes.
- Tarjimly uses AI-powered translation to assist human translators for refugees, increasing the accessibility, quality, and scale of translations in low-resource languages globally.
- US Digital Response is helping governments understand how to effectively use generative AI to improve efficiency and effectiveness, starting with language access tools to reduce barriers to unemployment insurance.
- The World Bank is developing generative AI tools to make development research more accessible, extracting evidence-based results from research to help policymakers make decisions faster and free up resources. I am able to give instructions effectively.
