Redefine the Future.
By working alongside and building capacity for nonprofit organizations, Community Innovations Foundation (501(c)(3) nonprofit) empowers underserved communities to understand and harness AI for sustainable progress and mutual prosperity.
AI Resource Library
Free online classes for small teams, covering marketing, fundraising, operations, and more.
Built from our in-person workshops with SCORE Orange County.
AI is Here, but Not Equitably.
Organizations that have capital and technical staff are already benefiting. Underserved communities are last in line and least equipped to adopt it. CIF exists to redistributes that by building capacity for the nonprofits serving these communities.
Thanks to your contributions, we get to keep our programs affordable and accessible.
Data that Drives Impact
Attendees engaged through our programs, events and workshops.
Organizations receiving affordable AI assessment and training.
Participants report effectiveness of adapting AI into their workflows after our programs.
How We Work Together
Every program we run starts with the same question: what does this community actually need? The answer shapes everything.
Bring credible AI programs to your community
Partner With UsStart with your priorities. We sit down with your team to understand who you serve, what they need, and what you already know about them.
Bring the expertise. We design the program around your format and your calendar, drawing on our curriculum or finding the right expertise where we don't have it.
Run the first cohort together. Our facilitators deliver alongside your staff, so the model gets proven in your setting before anything is handed over.
Train your trainers. Your team takes it from there, with the materials, the guides, and the support to keep running it without us.
Grant-funded. No direct cost to partner nonprofits.
Turn Busywork into Mission Delivery
Book Free Discovery CallFree discovery session. A short call to hear where your team's time actually goes and what's getting in the way.
On-site assessment. We walk through your current tools and workflows with the people who use them, and find the work worth changing.
Design and deliver training. Sessions built on your real workflows, so your staff leave with a fix in place rather than notes about one.
Measure what changed. We capture the hours before and after, so you have something concrete for your board and your funders.
Free scoped pilots available now. See if your organization qualifies.
Everyone tells you AI will transform your business. Almost no one shows you how to point it at the one thing that actually pays the bills: finding customers. Most AI sessions leave you with a notebook full of ideas and nothing running when you get home. This one is built the opposite way. You will walk out with a working lead generation system that you set up yourself, during the session, using free or easily accessible AI tools. This workshop is brought to you by Community Innovations Foundation (CIF), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit helping under-served communities turn AI into lasting economic advantage, are running this hands-on workshop together. The focus is not AI in the abstract, but on your business, your customers, and a system you own and can keep using. What You'll Build: Your AI Toolkit: Using free AI tools that capture and organize leads, set up live so it is working before you leave the room. A Capture-to-Contact Flow: A simple, repeatable path that turns an interested visitor into a contact you own, not a name trapped inside someone else's app. The Driver's Seat, Not the Passenger's: How to direct the AI and check its output, so the system works for how you run your business instead of a generic template. Meet our presenters: Dailin Hu Dailin is the Founder and Board Chair of CIF. She is a Senior Applied Scientist at Blizzard Entertainment, where she builds AI systems at scale, before that she was in a PhD program focusing on AI research at UC Irvine. She started CIF on a simple conviction: the people who stand to gain the most from AI are too often the last to get practical, hands-on access to it. Through workshops like this one, she helps small business owners skip the hype and put AI to work on the problems that actually move their business. Mike Boccieri Mike Boccieri is a production leader with 20 years shipping multi-platform titles in the games industry and 25+ years building interactive products, and a member of CIF's board of directors. His work involves taking complex technical chaos and turning it into clear, actionable momentum, aligning the granular details of a project with the people who have to execute it. Whether rescuing a project in trouble, untangling organizational bottlenecks, or scaling a AAA title, he specializes in turning ambiguous, high-pressure situations into focused teams that deliver.