Our initiatives
What we are building today
- Who it serves
- Middle and high school students, with a focus on young people who have less access to technology education.
AI Literacy & Youth Empowerment
4 students supported in an active pilot
Artificial intelligence now shapes the job applications students will submit, the news they read, and the tools they use for homework. Yet many students have never been taught what AI is, how it is built, or how to question its output. Our AI Literacy & Youth Empowerment program closes that gap with an after-school curriculum designed for classrooms that do not have specialized staff or expensive equipment.
Students start with the basics: how a computer learns from examples, what training data is, and why a model can be confidently wrong. They then write short Python programs, build simple predictive models, and use visual tools to watch how a neural network changes as it learns. Every unit includes a discussion of fairness and accountability, so students practice asking who built a system, what data it used, and who might be harmed.
We are starting small on purpose. Our current pilot supports four students, which lets us test and refine every lesson before offering the program more widely. The curriculum is designed to run on refurbished laptops and low-bandwidth connections, and we are developing lesson plans and teacher guides so classroom teachers can carry the material forward on their own.
- 2026 grant recipients
- AIM for Seva · Tamil Center of Stamford (TCSI)
- Who it serves
- Community nonprofits and community schools, especially small organizations without dedicated technology staff.
Nonprofit Tech Capacity Grants
Close to $6,000 granted in 2026
Community organizations are being told that AI will transform their work, but most have no IT department, no budget for consultants, and real concerns about privacy and accuracy. Many end up either avoiding new technology entirely or adopting it without understanding the risks to the people they serve. Our Nonprofit Tech Capacity Grants offer a practical path forward.
Close to $6,000 was granted in 2026 to AIM for Seva and the Tamil Center of Stamford (TCSI) to support technology infrastructure for their programs. These first grants reflect the partners we want to support: organizations that serve their communities well but have limited budgets for technology.
Alongside funding, we encourage responsible use from the start: deciding which information should never be entered into an AI tool, keeping a person in charge of anything that reaches clients or families, and choosing tools that staff can maintain on their own. As the grant fund grows, we plan to support more organizations and share what we learn with the wider nonprofit community.
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AI Workshops
We are developing hands-on AI workshop curriculum for community partners, drawing on the lessons from our AI Literacy pilot. Workshops will open to the public once we hold our first public session.
AgriTech
We plan to expand into agricultural AI applications once our education and grant programs are established. One idea we are exploring is low-cost tools that could help small farms spot crop problems early. We will share more when this work begins.
Help these programs grow
Every program is free to participants. Donations and volunteer expertise determine how many students and community organizations we can support.