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Class 07

AI for Small Business & Nonprofits

Use AI as a practical operating tool across marketing, communication, proposals, research, SOPs, and operations.

6 hours 13 lessons Self-paced + organizational project
Level
Intermediate
Duration
6 hours
Lessons
13 lessons
Format
Self-paced + organizational project
Tracks
Business, Nonprofit
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Course overview

For the people who run things. This class treats AI as an operating tool rather than a curiosity: where it creates leverage in a small organization, which processes to target first, and how to build it into the way the team actually works. You will finish with a prioritized opportunity map for your own organization.

Who this is for

  • Small business owners and operators
  • Nonprofit executive directors and staff
  • Marketing and operations teams of one
  • Community and faith organization leaders

What you’ll learn

  • Finding your organization’s highest-value AI opportunities
  • Marketing content and campaign support
  • Customer and donor communication
  • Proposals, quotes, and applications
  • Market and grant research
  • Writing SOPs and internal documentation
  • Turning institutional knowledge into a usable library
  • Business analysis and reporting
  • Rolling AI out to a team responsibly

Curriculum

7 modules · 13 lessons
  • Mapping your recurring processes
  • Scoring opportunities by value and effort
  • Choosing your first three
  • Content that sounds like your organization
  • Campaign planning and repurposing
  • Social, email, and web copy
  • Response templates and tone
  • Difficult conversations
  • Personalization at small scale
  • Proposal and quote drafting
  • Grant research and narrative support
  • Reusable boilerplate that stays current
  • Market and competitor research
  • Reading reports quickly
  • Simple business analysis with AI
  • Writing SOPs from how you actually work
  • Onboarding materials
  • Internal knowledge library
  • Building your AI opportunity map
  • Team rollout and simple policy
  • Measuring what improved

Hands-on exercises

Score and rank ten processes in your organization
Draft a complete SOP for one recurring process
Produce a full campaign or appeal from brief to assets

Paired labs

Intermediate 2 hours

Create an AI Newsletter Workflow

Build the full pipeline for a recurring newsletter — source gathering, drafting, review, and scheduling — with a human approval step before anything sends.

You leave with
A working newsletter workflow with approval.

ClaudeZapierEmail platform
Beginner 90 min

Create a Knowledge Library

Turn scattered documents, notes, and institutional knowledge into a searchable library your AI tools can reason over.

You leave with
A working knowledge library with a query workflow.

Claude ProjectsGoogle Drive or SharePoint

Expected outcomes

  • A prioritized AI opportunity map for your organization
  • One documented SOP in active use
  • A simple, sane internal AI policy

Tools used

ChatGPT Claude Canva Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 Your CRM

Skills you build

Opportunity mappingMarketing contentProposal writingSOP documentation

Instructor

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LifeQuest AI Organizational Faculty

Instructor details for this class are being finalized.

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