This is where you put forward the nonprofits you know best for the AI Working Labs: seven weekly 90-minute working sessions where two people from each organization build real work, with the paid AI accounts covered. Read the rubric, score the one or two organizations you have in mind, and submit. The rubric takes about three minutes. One organization takes about ten minutes end to end, two closer to twenty.
See what makes a strong candidate before you score anyone.
Rate the one or two organizations you already have in mind against the rubric.
Put forward one or two organizations through the form, no more than two.
RW Institute and PCI leads fit nominations to the 25 partner organization slots before any invitation goes out. A nomination held for a later cohort is invisible to the org.
Every invited organization receives a personal note and completes the formal application. No org applies cold, and none is turned away.
Organizations only hear from us when an invitation lands. No group applies and then gets turned away, and that first experience is the one we want to protect. If a nomination waits for a later cohort, the org never knows.
You work with these teams. Your read on who is ready is the best pre-screen this program has.
The cap keeps every nomination honest. Put forward only the organizations you would bet on.
There is no pass mark here and no score on the screen. Start with the qualifier: two named people who can actually show up. If that holds, four short questions ask what you have seen for yourself. Answer them straight. What you record stays on this device and travels with the nomination, and the RW Institute team weighs every organization against the seats in this cohort. Nothing here decides for them, and no organization is ever told no.
Can you name two specific people at this organization, the ones who actually write the grants, clean the spreadsheets, or build the reports, who could both take part in a 90-minute live session plus a couple of hours of their own work each week, for seven weeks across September and October?
Why this is the gate: the labs run in pairs, on real work, week after week. Two named people who can show up is the whole thing. Without that, the strongest mission in the world still cannot take part this round, and that is a not yet, not a no.
This one is for a future round. When you cannot yet name two people who can both attend, the labs will not land, however good the organization is. Hold them in mind, offer to share the session recordings when the time comes, and revisit when a pair and the calendar line up. You can still nominate a different organization below.
These four are about how strong a bet this organization is, not whether it qualifies. It already does. There are no right answers and no score on the screen. Answer from what you have actually seen.
Picture the writing and data work this organization does, grant reports, donor letters, board decks, spreadsheets. What can you call to mind right now?
Think back to a time this organization took on a new tool or a new way of working. What did that look like?
If the routine writing and reporting got noticeably faster here, where would that time go?
Beyond the two people who would attend, how does a useful new practice usually move through this organization?
The RW Institute team reads every nomination and builds the two cohorts from them. Where more organizations come forward than there are seats, the rest are held for the next round, not turned away. If an organization needs a closer look before it is ready, the session recordings are there to share. A nomination is a door held open, not a verdict.
Record each organization's readiness, then send. Your nomination goes to the RW Institute team by email from your own mail client.
This summary is your scored assessment of a named organization. Send it to RW Institute. Do not forward it to the organization itself.
These dates are set. Everything works back from Lab 1, which begins the week of September 14.
Score and submit your one or two organizations.
Personal invitations go out to the confirmed pool.
Invited orgs complete the formal application.
About 12 to 13 organizations per cohort, two people each, all nonprofit.
Monday cohort Sep 14, Friday cohort Sep 18.
If your organization is nominated and confirmed, two of your people join a cohort of seven weekly labs, 90 minutes each, live and recorded so you can catch up anytime. Wells Fargo covers a paid Claude account for each of the two seats, six months from the day the org confirms, at no cost to you. Across the seven weeks, the two of you build real work: grant reports, donor letters that sound like you, messy spreadsheets turned board-ready. You leave with tools you can keep using and pass to the rest of your team.
One or two. No more than two, so each nomination carries real weight.
Your nomination goes to the RW Institute team, who fit the pool to the 25 partner organization slots with PCI leads. Invitations then go out, and each invited organization completes the formal application. The invitation includes the application link.
No. A nomination is an invitation, not a commitment. The organization decides whether to accept and apply.
Each cohort seats about 25 people, all from nonprofit partners. At two people per organization that is roughly 12 to 13 organizations per cohort, about 25 organizations and 50 seats across both. If nominations run past capacity, the extras are held, not declined. Those organizations never hear a no, they are first in line for the next cohort, and session recordings can be shared in the meantime.
A team where two named people do the actual work, can protect two to three hours a week for seven weeks, has real recurring tasks to aim the labs at, and is curious even if skeptical. The rubric walks through each of these.
Nothing. The seat includes a paid Claude account funded by Wells Fargo, running six months from the day the org confirms, at no cost to the organization.
Nominate them when the timing fits. Organizations not nominated this round experience nothing at all, since they never applied, and you can put them forward for a later cohort.
A good nomination is a quiet bet on two people you already believe in, and the room to build something that lasts.