Pursuing the Promise of AI
A Guide for African Nonprofits to Advance Their Missions
A guide for African nonprofits on using AI in their programmes. It sets out 4 stages of AI adoption: explore and prepare, prove and learn, embed and operate, and sustain or scale, each with guiding questions. It draws on interviews and a focus group with over 40 nonprofits, social enterprises, funders, experts and intermediaries. It describes the type of funding needed at each stage, from risk-tolerant early capital to patient operating support.
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Madhuri Mukherjee, Aditi Sharma, Ynis Isimbi, Titi Kabi, Louis Moussi, Courtney Gehle, Sohini Pal (2026). Pursuing the Promise of AI: A Guide for African Nonprofits to Advance Their Missions. The Bridgespan Group. https://www.bridgespan.org/insights/pursuing-the-promise-of-ai-a-guide-for-african-nonprofits-to-advance-their-missions
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