Reimagine Possible
Transform Your Impact with AI
Unlock new opportunities, confront AI fears, and make tangible progress quickly. Explore affordable AI solutions designed by social impact leaders, for social impact leaders.
Our Services
At Ascend Impact Advisors, we help innovative social impact leaders quickly and strategically harness AI to advance their mission. Our solutions tackle common concerns like budget and capacity constraints, risk aversion, the potential harm of AI bias, and organizational inertia. We offer packages that drive innovation, build capacity, manage risk, and deliver results.
AI Essentials Package
Build a strong foundation for your team. Focus on the practical while exploring the possible. An engaging, interactive one-time class for your team.
AI Accelerator Package
Dive into the world of AI. Upskill your team and get a jump start on your AI strategy. Engaging, interactive multi-part learning and working sessions.
AI Pilot Project Package
Move from idea to impact. Co-design and test a functional AI-powered prototype using low/no code tools or at the open-source edge.
AI Learning Community
Promote collaborative learning and innovation across multiple organizations. Ideal for a foundation's portfolio or for nonprofit networks.
Strategy
Refresh your organization's strategy to refocus your energy and resources on driving greater impact -- focus on AI or more traditional approaches.
Impact Measurement
Revamp how you measure your impact. Drive greater support for your cause and improve the quality of your programs.
Harnessing AI for Social Impact
What Our Clients Say
Don’t just take our word for it. See how we’ve helped social impact leaders overcome challenges and achieve their goals with AI. Read real comments from real organizations making a difference in their communities and beyond.
New Possibilities
The class broke down the basics and use cases in such a quick and digestible way, I couldn't believe all the new possibilities I was attuned to so quickly. I'm itching to see what I could explore next to make myself and my team more efficient and to help us meet our mission... in an environment where there is NEVER enough time or money.
~ Charley, Director, Criminal Justice Policy
Engaging, Interesting, Relevant
As a new technology it's easy to have concerns, questions, interests, and doubts -- and Ascend Impact Advisors addressed them well. They introduced us to the field of prompt engineering and made the topic engaging, interesting, and relevant to our current questions. Incredible job with a cohesive workshop -- I highly recommend.
~Serena, Manager, Community Engagement
Tangible and Empowering
What a tangible, productive, and educational session. The training demystified an intimidating topic and equipped participants with specific tools to use well into the future. Activities and real time exercises pushed the comprehension of the content, driving learning and empowerment.
~ Anonymous, Director, Nonprofit Strategy
Our Clients
At Ascend Impact Advisors, we partner with nonprofits, foundations, and other organizations focused on social impact to help them create meaningful change. Our expert team helps organizations overcome challenges, build capacity, and achieve their mission. With tailored strategies that complement our AI-driven solutions, we help you manage risk, drive innovation, and create sustainable impact for people and communities. Below are examples of current and prior clients.
About Us
We understand the challenges faced by social impact leaders because we’ve lived them. From cost and capacity constraints, to risk aversion, to resisting change, to aligning multiple departments, to building trust between organizations across a national or global network — we’ve been there. And we know first-hand how hard it can be to get the most from technology investments, despite the best of intentions and a compelling vision. That’s why we do this work. To be the partner working along side you, helping you manage through the chaos, to achieve more and inspire others to see the possibilities that you see. We’re on a mission to help social impact leaders harness AI responsibly and strategically.
What We Believe
Human Centered
Put people and communities at the center. Help social change organizations build and share power.
Mission Driven
The scale and urgency of the societal challenges we face demand bold, collective action. Our north star is about social progress, not sold projects.
Inclusive Change Leaders
Design an inclusive process that brings together diverse voices. Show up with questions, not answers. Be nimble and brave enough to iterate and adjust.