In July 2025, Darian Rodriguez Heyman and Cheryl Contee published AI for Nonprofits: Putting Artificial Intelligence to Work for Your Cause (Wiley). Built on interviews with 57 sector innovators, the book quickly became one of the most recommended practical guides for nonprofits seeking to use AI without sacrificing their values, data, or mission.
A year later, the landscape has moved. Some of the book's recommendations have held up well. Some tools have changed, merged, or disappeared. And new questions about equity, power, and accountability have moved to the center of the conversation.
We're sitting down with Darian and Cheryl for an honest, one-year retrospective:
What's held up since publication, and why
What's evolved in tools, tactics, ethics, and regulation
Where do they see the sector heading next, and what nonprofit leaders should be watching
Both Darian and Cheryl are AIxImpact members and longtime sector leaders, so this is a peer conversation, not a book tour. Whether you've read the book or not, you'll leave with a clearer sense of what's worth adopting now, what's worth waiting on, and how to keep your mission at the center.
Wednesday, July 22nd | 1-2 pm PST | Free for paid annual AIxImpact members. $35 for non-members via Eventbrite.
P.S. The book's companion site at ai4np.org keeps the tool listings up to date. Worth a bookmark either way.