2026 NSPA Virtual AI Workshop Series
Welcome to an exciting journey of discovery and empowerment! This quarterly virtual AI workshop series is your gateway to mastering artificial intelligence tools in ways that directly enhance your daily work in the scholarship and nonprofit sectors.
| Item | Quick Link | Description |
|---|---|---|
| #1 | Return to this Page | Main menu and explore this additional website. |
| #1a | Watch PreShow Now | Extra content (Get slides) |
| #2 | The Ethics of AI Use in Scholarships and Data Protection | Foundations of responsible AI: what AI can and cannot do, equity risks, data protection, and governing AI use in scholarship programs. |
| #3 | Creating and Revising Scholarship Applications with AI | Beginner-focused session on using Gen AI to draft, revise, and refine scholarship applications: essay prompts, eligibility criteria, FAQs, and scoring rubrics. Includes hands-on activities and a badge/certificate option. |
| #4 | Automating Office Tasks with AI | Practical frameworks, task guides, and prompting workshops for scholarship office workflows: communications, triage, reviewer prep, reporting, and GEO-optimized content. |
| #5 | AI in 5 Series | Explore Gemini, BoodleBox, or ChatGPT |
| #6 | AI for Marketing & Engagement: A Nonprofit Toolkit | Prompt libraries and scenario-based toolkits for outreach, recruitment, donor engagement, and scholarship brand communications. |
NSPA AI Training Series
You can access all the resources via this additional website.
Article Series
#1: Create Your Scholarships Resource Hub
Presentation(s): - Crafting Better AI Prompts: Unlocking Efficiency and Accuracy for Scholarship Workflows - Bots/GPTs: - Scholarship Navigator - Instructions Designer Whiz (get help creating your own GPT’s custom instructions)
Prerequisites
To maximize your learning experience with Gen AI tools, you’ll need a paid account. Throughout this series, NSPA recommends ChatGPT but you can do well with a Google Gemini Pro, Claude Pro, or MS Copilot (paid) account. Use free versions of chatbots at your own risk, and avoid sharing confidential, sensitive, private (PII, FERPA,HIPAA) data via consumer Gen AI chatbots, especially free ones. Get a premium plan that offers enhanced data protection features.
NSPA Prompt Acronym
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