Level Up Your AI Skills with

Decoded Futures

Are you looking to deepen your organizational knowledge of AI, but don’t know where to start? We invite you and a colleague to join the Decoded Futures team of technologists for a 6-session, 9-week learning cohort, customized for nonprofits this winter.

As a social organization dedicated to supporting education and workforce nonprofits in NYC on their technology journeys, Decoded Futures will launch an initial learning cohort of 15-20 nonprofits that want to explore if and how AI could support their work.

Over the course of 9 weeks, you’ll learn foundational AI concepts, connect with peer nonprofit leaders, deepen the integrations of AI utility in your personal workflow, and experiment with organization-wide possibilities for transformative AI implementations.

Session Topics:

  • AI 101 and level setting

  • What is AI good for? Using common AI tools in your workflow

  • AI in education and workforce - specific use cases

  • Ethical oversight - how to prevent common harms

  • Building your own AI tools

  • Nonprofit showcase

What You’ll Get:

  • Six, 2-hour trainings on AI with the Decoded Futures team of social technologists

  • Familiarization with AI fundamentals, including tools that can directly be applied to your organization’s work

  • Experimentation with custom solutions tailored to your needs

  • Access to a peer community of NYC-based education and workforce nonprofits

  • Access to Decoded Futures’ network of NYC-based technologists across 550+ technology companies in the city

  • Custom recommendations for how to continue your journey beyond the cohort

Program Dates:

  • February 4, 3:00pm - 5:00pm (In-person)

  • February 11, 3:00pm - 5:00pm (In-person)

  • February 18, 3:00pm - 5:00pm (Virtual)

  • February 25, 3:00pm - 5:00pm (In-person, Design Day)

  • March 4, 3:00pm - 5:00pm (Virtual)

  • March 11, 3:00pm - 5:00pm (Virtual)

  • March 25, 4:00pm - 7:00pm (In-person, Nonprofit Showcase)

Who Should Apply

  • This cohort is intended for nonprofits who are:

    • Early in their AI journey

    • Working to support NYC-ers with education or workforce in some way

    • Willing to commit to attending all of the sessions

    • Eager to experiment and put learning into practice

Our Cohort in Action

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FAQ

  • We invite each nonprofit to send up to two participants for this program. The cohort is best suited for program staff, MEL staff, and software developers on your team. Executive directors or other leadership members are also invited to participate, so long as they can commit to attend all six sessions.

  • Absolutely! For this first cohort, though, we are capping the seats at two people per organization.

  • You can expect to come away with a better understanding of foundational AI concepts, AI-powered optimizations to your personal workflow, and 1-2 prototypes for deeper AI implementations that your organization might benefit from.

  • This cohort would best support education and workforce development nonprofits who are looking to build AI fluency internally, but don’t know where to start.

  • In addition to the 6, two-hour sessions, we ask participants to spend 1-2 hours each week moving forward on their AI strategy.

  • Thanks to the support of the Robin Hood Foundation and Google, this cohort is free for participating organizations to attend.