AI literacy for the nonprofit sector

The next divide won't be digital. It will be about who can use AI.

Nonprofits and grassroots communities are being left out of the AI conversation by default. QriusAI Foundation exists to change that. We turn AI from something happening to the sector into something the sector can put to work.

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Aligned with

United Nations AI Advisory Body
Nasscom
Google for Startups
IndiaAI
NITI Aayog — Atal Innovation Mission

Our point of view

AI literacy is the new digital divide. The organizations doing the hardest social work have the least access to the tools reshaping everything around them. We think that's the most fixable inequity in technology right now — and we're building the bridge.

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What we do

Three ways we close the gap

A QriusAI facilitator leading an AI capacity-building session with nonprofit professionals around a shared screen.

QriusAI Catalyst

We help nonprofits build real AI capability — from everyday tools to full agentic workflows for fundraising, operations, and storytelling. We don't hand over a tool and leave. We build the capacity to keep using it.

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A facilitator presenting AI literacy fundamentals to a classroom of students, with a QriusAI-branded slide on screen.

QriusAI Campus

We bring AI literacy to Tier 1 and Tier 2 colleges and schools across India, reaching young people the mainstream tech conversation overlooks. To date we've run sessions at 12+ colleges and counting.

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QriusAI on Wheels

A mobile AI lab built to reach communities that classrooms and connectivity leave behind. This one's on the blueprint. Partnership is what puts the first van on the road.

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The divide, by the numbers

92%of nonprofits worldwide now use AI in some form
7%report any real gain in capability from it
2Xfaster AI adoption at large nonprofits than small, grassroots ones
3M+nonprofits in India alone, most still unreached

Sources: Virtuous & Fundraising.AI, 2026 Nonprofit AI Adoption Report; TechSoup & Tapp Network, State of AI in Nonprofits 2025.

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Insights

We don't just deliver AI. We define how the sector understands it.

The State of AI Readiness in the Nonprofit Sector

Our flagship research into how ready the sector really is for AI. The survey is open now.

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Echoes of Impact

Conversations with the people building AI's future at the grassroots.

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Put your CSR where the gap is widest.

We're looking for partners who want to close the AI divide, not just fund a workshop. If that's you, let's talk about what we can build together.

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