Claude Cowork for Nonprofits
Move from chatting with AI to working alongside it. A five-week cohort for nonprofit leaders ready to put Claude Cowork to work.
- StartsJuly 30, 2026
- Length5 weeks · 90 min/week
- TimeThursdays · 11:00am to 12:30pm Central
- WhereVirtual (Zoom)
- Price$750per person
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Ted Kriwiel -
Lucy Petroucheva
About this cohort
Tools like Claude Cowork represent a new generation of AI — not a chatbot you type questions into, but a system that can see your files, connect to your data, and take action on your behalf.
For the first time, nonprofits have a tool that can genuinely keep up with the complexity of their work, think alongside them, work alongside them, and truly transform how their work gets done.
But AI is only as useful as the context it has access to and the quality of the direction it receives.
This cohort is designed to help you build that bridge: connecting AI to the files, systems, and organizational knowledge where your work actually lives, while also learning how to guide AI effectively through strong prompting, thoughtful workflow design, and clear decision-making structures.
Together, we'll explore how you can create the "knowledge architecture" that makes AI genuinely useful in practice — from file organization and structured data to repeatable workflows that produce consistent, trustworthy results.
Along the way, you'll receive a practical crash course in Claude Cowork (released in January 2026). While we'll use Claude Cowork as the playground for the cohort, the principles apply broadly to working effectively with modern AI systems and Large Language Models more generally.
What you'll learn
In this cohort, you'll learn how to:
- Set up your knowledge architecture so AI can work across your files and tools
- Connect AI to the tools and data in your tech stack
- Understand and use the core building blocks of Claude Cowork
- Build repeatable workflows and systems that produce consistent, high-quality results
- Automate recurring tasks and multi-step projects so work continues running in the background with minimal oversight
Other benefits
- Learn alongside other nonprofit leaders putting AI to work in their orgs
- Hear use cases from peers that spark ideas you would never have on your own
- Get hands-on coaching from hosts who use these tools every day
Meet your hosts
How we approach AI
- It is a powerful tool to help us get work done
- We only care about AI in relation to what it enables us to do
- We're not AI hype engines
- We're not going to speculate about the future
- We won't try to persuade you to use AI more or less
Why we're starting with Claude Cowork
- Chat, Cowork, and Code are a natural elevation — three options that build on each other
- Most people have chatted with AI but not arrived at "the next level"
- Cowork allows us to store context locally, so we can move our data between tools
We like Claude Cowork today, but we're more interested in applying concepts that are true of all LLMs and will be useful now and into the future regardless of LLM provider.
Cohort overview
Session 1 · July 30
Foundations
Understanding Claude Cowork and developing the mindset for working with AI.
- Why AI, why now
- Ethics, security, and responsible use
- Claude Cowork’s core features and capabilities
Session 2 · August 6
Build Your Workspace
Giving Claude the context it needs to become a useful collaborator.
- Real nonprofit use cases and how to build a skill
- Context, preferences, and instructions
- Organizing files and folders
- Projects, connectors, templates, and style guides
Session 3 · August 13
Build Your Workflow
Designing your first repeatable Cowork workflow.
- Choosing the right work to automate
- Giving effective instructions
- Breaking work into manageable steps
- Oversight and approval points
Session 4 · August 20
Refine & Improve
Making workflows more reliable and effective.
- Troubleshooting workflows
- Improving instructions
- Managing quality
- Common workflow failures
Session 5 · August 27
Sustainable AI Practice
Building beyond your first workflow.
- Auditing your work for AI opportunities
- Prioritizing future workflows
- Developing a 90-day implementation plan
Before you join
You should know that you'll need a Claude Pro plan (and willingness to upgrade if necessary). Anthropic offers nonprofit pricing.