Across the humanitarian and nonprofit sector, staff are already using AI at work. The tools arrived before the decisions about what happens to the data they process.
Lenovo Social Impact Lab for Responsible AI and Tech To The Rescue are opening a ten week AI Impact Lab for organizations entrusted with the data of the people they serve. You bring a real operational bottleneck and the records your team already holds. The Lab helps you build an AI prototype on that data, with governance designed in from the first week.
You do not need to be a tech organization. Your team builds the prototype, with mentors from Lenovo Social Impact Lab for Responsible AI and the TTTR ecosystem alongside you.
Every prototype starts from your own bottleneck and your own records. These are the example patterns that fit organizations working with sensitive information about the people they serve.
Your case notes live in a thousand documents and nobody can search them.
Turn case notes and field assessments into coded, comparable records your team can actually query.
Staff paste case details into public chatbots because there is nothing else.
Give them an assistant grounded in your own protocols and your own history.
Every helpline message gets read in the order it arrived.
Route messages, referrals, and protection cases by category and urgency instead.
Problems show up in your data months before anyone spots them.
Surface anomalies and trends across monitoring, price, or service uptake data.
Personal details reach an AI tool before anyone checks. Detect and remove them automatically, before the data goes anywhere.
Your team completes self-paced learning to reach a shared baseline before the bootcamp. It covers AI fundamentals, data basics, and how to define your problem clearly, so the team starts the bootcamp ready to build.
The bootcamp combines workshops, expert sessions, and structured prototype development. You move from problem definition to solution design to a working prototype, with mentorship at each step. You can expect workshops on topics such as: responsible AI, data mangement, problem validation, user mapping, legal aspect of AI, designing with human-in-the-loop, planning and justifying AI budgets and many, many more!
You leave the AI Impact Lab able to take your Prototype and AI Strategy further yourself: pitch it internally, present it to donors, iterate on it, keep building without us, or with us - by joing the AI Scaling Program.
Contact with our team!
Angelika Nocoń
SIO Engagement Manager@ Tech To The Rescue
ngo@techtotherescue.org
The Lab is hands on and practical, focused on turning a real operational challenge into something concrete. Around 80 percent of the time goes to workshops, guided teamwork, prototyping, mentoring, and peer exchange with organizations handling similar responsibilities. You will work with senior professionals from leading AI and technology companies, including Lenovo experts delivering masterclasses on responsible AI.
A proven social intervention.
You have operated in the real world for at least two years, with evidence of outcomes, adoption, and operational stability.
Your own operational data.
Records your organization generated through its own service delivery, such as case notes, field assessments, helpline transcripts, survey rounds, or registration records, rather than purchased or scraped data.
Clear data ownership.
You are the data controller, or you hold a data sharing agreement with whoever is. Someone in your organization knows where the records sit and can get them in front of your own team, so the bootcamp is not spent tracking them down.
Work already started on responsible data use.
Your organization has put time or resources into data governance and the responsible use of data and AI.
A specific operational bottleneck.
You can name the point where your work slows down or breaks, and describe what concretely changes if it is solved. You do not need to have decided that AI is the answer.
Leadership and execution capacity.
You can commit a team of two to three people for the full ten weeks, including at least two decision makers and one technically skilled member, working in English.
We give priority to organizations serving people who have little practical ability to consent to how their data is collected and used, organizations holding several years of their own records, and organizations open to sharing what they build so others can reuse it.
Lenovo is a global technology company whose social impact work focuses on getting technology to the organizations and communities that need it most. Through the Lenovo Foundation and the Lenovo AI for Social Impact Lab, launched with Tech To The Rescue in 2024, Lenovo has supported social impact organizations working on climate and access to education with AI tools, and expert guidance. For this Lab, Lenovo Social Impact Lab for Responsible AI technologists deliver masterclasses and mentor teams through the bootcamp, with their expertise concentrated on responsible AI.
Tech To The Rescue brings the AI side: five completed bootcamps for social organizations, 350 plus graduates, and an ecosystem of more than 2,000 pro bono technology partners.
If your work depends on data about the people you serve, you can name a bottleneck that limits your reach or quality, and you can commit a small team for ten weeks, you are a strong candidate for this Lab.
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