Do I need to have AI built already?

No. You need a proven social intervention with real users and results. The program helps you scope, build, and deploy the AI component with a matched pro bono tech partner. Some organizations in the pilot cohort arrived with AI integrated. Others came with a strong intervention and a vision for where AI fits. Both profiles are welcome.

How much time does the program require?

A dedicated project manager investing at least five hours per week for 12 months. The first three months have mandatory bi-weekly sessions every other Wednesday at 2PM CET, covering onboarding, data readiness, partnership management, and fundraising. After matching, the cadence depends on your development schedule.

Why does onboarding take three months before matching?

Organizations that complete the preparation phase enter matching with clear project briefs, partner value propositions, and realistic expectations. In the pilot cohort, this led to faster, better matches. Your tech partner can start building immediately because the groundwork is done.

What kind of tech partner will I be matched with?

TTTR's ecosystem includes 2,000+ software agencies, universities, and AI professionals. Matching considers your project's technical requirements, sector, and timeline. Partners contribute on a pro bono or low bono basis. You meet them at Matching Day after the onboarding phase.

Is there a cost to participate?

The program is free for accepted organizations. Pro bono tech development, specialized hub sessions, community access, cloud credits, and partner offers are all included. Equivalent services on the open market cost $150,000 to $330,000 per organization.

What happens after the 12 months?

You keep alumni access to the TTTR ecosystem for life: community, specialized hub sessions, partner offers, and visibility opportunities. Your organization becomes part of TTTR's portfolio of scalable solutions, which creates ongoing visibility with funders and partners.

When is the next cohort if I miss this deadline?

The program runs quarterly. The next call for applications opens later in 2026. Subscribe to the newsletter below to be notified.

AI Impact Lab Aid logistics

in partnership with

Applications are open from 15 June to 24 July 2026.

Humanitarian supply chains are under growing pressure, and local innovation is becoming essential to making aid faster and more resilient. That is why HELP Logistics, an operational non-profit initiative of the Kühne Foundation, with Tech To The Rescue and partners, is launching a 10-week Impact Lab for local and national organizations working in humanitarian supply chains.

You bring the operational expertise, the field experience, and a real bottleneck that limits your reach. The Lab helps your team explore how AI can address it and turn your knowledge into a prototype, a development plan, and a clearer path to funding.

You do not need to be a tech organization. You know the problem, and the Lab helps you build the solution.

Apply now

Professionals trained through HELP Logistics, building supply chain and logistics expertise across the humanitarian sector.

years of HELP Logistics driving impact in humanitarian logistics and supply chain management

graduates from TTTR AI bootcamps for social organizations.

pro bono technology partners in the TTTR ecosystem.

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. The bootcamp opens with a Great Opening Session and ends with Graduation Day.

Selected organizations are invited into the AI Impact Scaling Program to develop, implement, and scale the solution further.

Do you have a question?

Contact with our team!

Angelika Nocoń

SIO Engagement Manager@ Tech To The Rescue
ngo@techtotherescue.org

What you get

The Impact Lab is hands-on and practical, focused on turning your real operational challenge into something concrete. Around 80% of the Lab is dedicated to workshops, guided teamwork, prototyping, mentoring, and peer exchange with organizations facing similar supply chain challenges. You leave with tangible assets your team can use immediately. You will work with senior professionals from leading AI and technology companies, software houses, and product teams who volunteer their expertise to the Lab.

Your defined problem becomes a testable AI-powered solution: a working mock-up or proof of concept that your team has built and can present to funders, partners, and internal decision-makers.

You leave with a Solution Blueprint that connects your prototype to a credible implementation path. It covers the technical plan, data needs, ethical considerations, roadmap, team roles, maintenance, and next steps toward deployment.

Your team builds practical AI literacy by working directly on your own use case. With support from AI, logistics, and impact experts, your team learns how to assess opportunities, ask better technical questions, and make informed decisions about AI.

The AI Impact Lab gives your team access to AI, logistics, product, and impact expertise at no cost. Support like this is usually costly to source. In this program it is provided free of charge, so your team builds capabilities that stay with your organization long after the Lab ends.

The AI Impact Lab helps you move from a broad operational challenge to a clearly defined bottleneck with a strong AI fit. This makes your project easier to design, easier to explain, and easier to fund.

You will explore how AI can support areas such as supplier mapping, demand forecasting, route optimization, inventory planning, data analysis, risk detection, and operational coordination, always grounded in your real context.

By the end of the AI Impact Lab, you will be able to show not only what problem you want to solve, but also how your AI solution could work, what it would take to implement it, and what impact it could unlock.

Organizations that finish with a validated prototype and a development plan can be invited to continue in the AI Impact Scaling Program, and arrive at funding conversations with something concrete to show.

Proven social intervention. You work in humanitarian supply chain and operated in the real world for at least two years. You have an active humanitarian mandate and evidence of outcomes, adoption, and operational stability.

A defined supply chain problem with a clear AI fit. You can name a specific bottleneck that limits your reach or quality, and show why AI is the right way to address it.

Articulable impact. You can describe what concretely changes if the solution works, whether that is scale, efficiency, quality, or reach.

Data readiness. You have data relevant to the problem, in a form that can support building a prototype within the bootcamp’s short timeline.

Leadership and execution capacity. You have the internal motivation, leadership, and team structure to execute during the bootcamp, and can commit a team of two to three people for the full ten weeks.

We give priority to local and national NGOs based in the Global South, refugee-led organizations, women-led organizations, local coordination hubs, and organizations open to sharing their solutions so others can reuse them.

Backed by deep supply chain expertise

HELP Logistics, an operational non-profit initiative of the Kühne Foundation, strengthens supply chains to improve resilience, efficiency, and sustainability across humanitarian, development, and climate response contexts. Based in Switzerland with hubs in Singapore, Amman, Dakar, Nairobi, and Hamburg, HELP partners with governments, NGOs, and international agencies to diagnose and optimize supply chains, build capabilities, and translate applied research into practical strategies for stronger humanitarian and development systems in complex settings.

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.

Do we need AI skills already?

No. You need supply chain expertise and a clear problem. The pre-work builds your team’s AI baseline, and mentors support you through the build.

How much time does it take?

Plan for about five hours per week during the three weeks of pre-work, and about eight hours per week during the seven-week bootcamp. The Lab is online.

Who from our organization should take part?

A team of two to three people, including at least two decision-makers and one technically skilled member, with fluent English and active participation in the workshops.

What do we walk away with?

A working AI prototype, an AI development strategy and Solution Blueprint, an upskilled team, and a plan that can open the door to the AI Impact Scaling Program.

Is this a grant or a build service?

Neither. The Lab is a hands-on workshop program. It is not a grant, and it is not a development agency building the solution for you. Your team builds the prototype, with expert guidance.

What does it cost?

There is no fee to participate. Your investment is your team’s time across the ten weeks.

What kind of prototype will we actually leave with?

You leave with a working AI prototype that your team has built around your own bottleneck. In practice that means a proof of concept or a functional mock-up: enough to show how the solution would work, who it serves, and what it could change. It is not a finished, deployed product, and it does not need to be. The goal is something concrete you can put in front of funders, partners, and your own decision-makers.

What happens after the Lab?

Organizations with a validated prototype and development plan can be invited into the AI Impact Scaling Program to implement and scale the solution.

Apply now

You know the problem.
Build the AI solution to solve it.

A 10-week journey from problem
to prototype

Do you have a question?

What you get

This Lab is for organizations that run supply chains.

46 organizations across 20+ countries are already building

Backed by deep supply chain expertise

Frequently asked questions

Is your organization ready?

You know the problem. Build the AI solution to solve it.

A 10-week journey from problem to prototype

Do you have a question?

What you get

This Lab is for organizations that run supply chains.

46 organizations across 20+ countries are already building

Backed by deep supply chain expertise

Frequently asked questions

Is your organization ready?

You know the problem.
Build the AI solution to solve it.

A 10-week journey from problem
to prototype