I attended this event just now and it was really great! I really recommend this weekly office hours for nonprofit folks concerned about how they should be using AI. It’s a great opportunity to learn new things and to ask questions to knowledgeable people!
Mark Meyerson gave a short presentation about google’s offerings for nonprofits and then we talked afterwards. I’m surprised by how big the discounts are that google offers nonprofits, but am not at all surprised at how integrated it is in e.g. google docs and sheets. I’m not going to use it and I don’t recommend it for privacy minded organizations concerned about digital sovereignty. But it is worth looking into if you are already deeply invested in google and so have already decided to trust them with all your data. In any case it’s better for nonprofits to sign up for a paid service like this (with nonprofit discount) and then also have a policy to limit the use of other free AI tools.
Speaking of policies - Mark also shared a tool IT4Causes has put online to help nonprofits to take the step of creating a policy.
It’s a pretty neat app with a familiar interface.
Mark also mentioned Venice AI as an alternative for privacy minded people.
The interface is not very self-descriptive so I asked it what it is about, and it told me the below. Looks interesting and worth looking at.
Venice.ai is a private, uncensored AI platform that provides access to various AI models without content restrictions. I’m Venice, powered by the GLM 4.6 model, running on this platform.
Key features of Venice.ai include:
Privacy-focused: User data is stored only in your browser, never on Venice servers
Uncensored responses without content filtering
Support for text generation, image creation, video generation, music generation, and more
Document uploads and vision capabilities
Token system with VVV (utility token) and DIEM (staking token)
The platform offers both free and paid tiers (Venice Pro) with different usage limits. Venice has also conducted one of the largest airdrops on the Base blockchain with its VVV token.
Is there something specific about Venice.ai you’d like to know more about?
I was curious about the blockchain thing so I asked it to explain it to me, and talk to me like a third grader. Here was the answer.. 
Imagine you have a special club called Venice.ai. The club made its own special money called VVV tokens, like having your own special coins that only club members can use.
An “airdrop” is like when you’re at a birthday party and someone throws candy up in the air for everyone to catch - it’s a surprise gift! Venice.ai threw out a LOT of these VVV tokens to people who used their club.
The “Base blockchain” is like a special computer system that keeps track of who has which VVV tokens, making sure nobody can cheat or steal them.
When I say it was the “largest airdrop,” I mean Venice.ai gave away more tokens than any other club had ever given away on that special computer system. It was like the biggest candy toss ever seen on Base!
So Venice.ai made many people happy by giving them these special tokens for free, and it was the biggest giveaway ever on that particular computer system.