An AI and a Non-Profit Walk into a Bar

Darian Rodriguez Heyman has already written the books on how to run a nonprofit and how to fund one. Now he’s taking on the thing that might change both: AI. His new book, *AI for Nonprofits*, asks a much more useful question than whether AI is good or bad: **what are nonprofits actually supposed to do with it?** We sat down with Darian to talk about what AI is already changing, where nonprofits are getting it wrong, and why organizations that pride themselves on being human-centered can’t simply sit this revolution out. We get into efficiency versus humanity, responsible adoption versus institutional paralysis, and what happens when technology moving at Silicon Valley speed lands inside organizations that… decidedly do not. Darian has spent decades thinking about how nonprofits work. This time, the operating environment itself is changing.