Generative AI has proven to enhance the productivity, creativity, and effectiveness of social impact teams in serving their communities. According to reports from recipients of funding from Google.org, AI has helped them reach their goals in significantly less time and at reduced costs.
Despite the potential benefits, a recent survey by Google.org revealed that while four out of five nonprofits see the relevance of generative AI in their work, nearly half of them are not currently utilizing the technology due to obstacles such as lack of tools, awareness, training, and funding.
In response to this, Google.org has launched the Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI, a six-month program designed to support nonprofits in developing impactful applications of generative AI. The inaugural cohort consists of 21 organizations dedicated to various areas including climate, economic opportunity, health, education, and crisis response. Along with technical training, workshops, mentors, and pro bono support from an AI coach, Google.org is granting over $20 million in funding to these projects.
Furthermore, through the Google.org Fellowship, teams of Googlers will collaborate full-time with three selected nonprofits—Tarjimly, Benefits Data Trust, and mRelief—for up to six months to assist them in developing their proposed generative AI tools.
Discover some of the innovative projects by the selected organizations below and explore other Google accelerator programs.
- Benefits Data Trust is leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to create an AI-powered assistant that aids caseworkers and frontline workers in assisting low-income individuals to access and enroll in public benefits.
- Beyond 12 is developing a generative AI-powered College Coach to provide scalable coaching to first-generation college students and those from under-resourced communities.
- CareerVillage is enhancing its AI Career Coach with new activities to assist underrepresented individuals in navigating their career paths and achieving better employment outcomes.
- Climate Policy Radar is constructing an open digital database and knowledge graph for climate law and policy with a generative AI-enabled search interface to aid climate leaders in making informed decisions.
- CodePath will introduce AI tutoring and mentorship solutions to offer immediate, personalized career support to underserved communities.
- EIDU is utilizing generative AI to deliver personalized tutoring services in low- and middle-income countries through tailor-made content for teachers and digital learning exercises for students.
- Full Fact is developing a generative AI tool to analyze and summarize large volumes of health misinformation across various media, thereby reducing the workload for fact checkers.
- IDinsight, Inc. provides immediate and accurate generative AI-powered responses to health-related inquiries from new or expectant mothers in South Africa.
- Jacaranda Health scales digital health services to mothers in underserved areas using Natural Language Processing (NLP) trained in African languages.
- Justicia Lab is developing an AI assistant to assist immigrants in understanding their path to legal status by providing actionable information and customized guidance throughout the process.
- Materiom is creating a generative AI tool to help entrepreneurs build and test compostable biomaterial recipes, aiming to revolutionize packaging and textiles industries towards sustainability.
- mRelief is developing an assistant to streamline the application process for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits in the U.S.
- Opportunity@Work is enabling employers to gain insights into non-degree-based career paths to enhance employability for Skilled Through Alternative Routes.
- Partnership to End Addiction is expanding its addiction support services for families using AI to build training simulations and quality assurance tools.
- Quill.org is creating a tool to provide students with immediate AI-powered feedback and coaching on writing and reading comprehension activities, helping them acquire new skills efficiently while saving teachers time.
- Tabiya is empowering jobseekers in low- and middle-income countries with tailored advice at scale to facilitate better job matches, gender equity, and higher incomes using a generative AI tool.
- Tarjimly leverages AI-powered translation to empower human translators supporting refugees, improving accessibility and quality of translation for low-resource languages worldwide.
- U.S. Digital Response is working on harnessing generative AI for governments to enhance efficiency and impact, starting with a language access tool to remove barriers to unemployment insurance.
- World Bank is developing a generative AI tool to make development research more accessible, extracting evidence-based findings to aid policymakers in faster decision-making and resource allocation.
