Development organizations face unprecedented challenges. The uncertain environment has broad ramifications for development funding and programming, with the recent USAID cuts threatening to strip 23 million children of educational access and 95 million people of basic health care. In order to navigate this turbulence and address the gap, organizations need to deliver more impact with drastically reduced resources.
There’s a powerful solution hiding in plain sight: Artificial intelligence tools that can dramatically amplify organizational capacity.
A Harvard Business School study found that consultants using AI had significant increases in productivity, completing 12% more tasks, 25% faster, and with a 40% increase in quality. Still, 92% of nonprofits feel unprepared for AI implementation. This skills gap represents both the sector’s greatest vulnerability and its most immediate opportunity.
About the author
Jocelyn Cheng
Jocelyn Cheng helps impact organizations unlock AI-powered efficiency, drawing on two decades at the nexus of impact investing and tech. After leading the venture investing arm of a global tech company and building the impact investing team at the Global Innovation Fund, she now drives results through ImpactAgent.
