AI Strategy · Policy · Executive Coaching for Nonprofits

Turn everyday AI use into a real advantage.

Your staff are already using AI. I help nonprofit leaders set the strategy, put the right policy in place, and get hands-on with the tools themselves — so your whole organization moves in the same direction, in service of your mission.

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Bower Himes

I'm a Technical Program Manager with 20+ years across enterprise technology, consumer electronics, and startups, including Akamai Technologies, Bose, iRobot, and a handful of early-stage companies building with AI since 2023.

I focus on nonprofits because AI is affordable and scalable, and most organizations in this space haven't had the guidance to adopt it well. My work sits in three places: the strategy that decides where AI fits, the policy that keeps its use safe and accountable, and hands-on coaching that gets leaders using it themselves. The goal is a team that trusts the tools, keeps up as they change, and serves more people.

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Services
Strategy, policy, and hands-on coaching

Three ways to work together, built for nonprofit leaders. Most organizations start with one and grow into the others. I meet you where you are, with practical guidance grounded in real nonprofit challenges.

Strategy

AI Strategy & Roadmap

An audit of your data, workflows, and team capacity to find where AI moves the needle, from donor research to grant reporting to program measurement. You leave with a prioritized roadmap tied to your mission: what to pilot first, which tools fit (including Claude for Nonprofits), and how to roll it out across the organization.

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Policy

AI Policy & Governance

Many nonprofits don't have an AI policy yet, and that's often where we start. We write the internal guidelines for how your team uses AI: what's in scope, what's off-limits, and how staff handle AI-generated work. We also draft consent language for the clients and communities you serve, because using AI in service delivery comes with real obligations to the people who trust you.

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1:1 Coaching

Hands-On Executive Coaching

Private working sessions for executive directors and leadership teams. We skip the slide decks and work on your actual tasks with AI (board reports, funder updates, budget narratives, hard decisions) until you have workflows you use every week and the confidence to lead your team's adoption.

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Where AI Moves the Needle
AI Agents for Nonprofit Teams

These are the areas where small nonprofit teams consistently unlock disproportionate impact by applying AI to existing data and workflows.

Donor Research & Prospecting

Rapidly profile prospective donors, surface alignment signals, and prioritize outreach based on giving history and affinity markers.

Grant Writing & Reporting

Draft grant narratives from program data and streamline impact reporting with AI-assisted synthesis of outcomes and metrics.

Program Impact Measurement

Turn scattered survey data, case notes, and program records into clear impact stories and dashboards that boards and funders can act on.

Knowledge Management

Build searchable, AI-powered knowledge bases from years of organizational documents and board minutes — so critical knowledge survives staff turnover.

Tools & Platforms
The fastest, safest path to advanced AI

For most nonprofits, leading with Anthropic's Claude is the shortest route to capable, trustworthy AI — built around safety and the strongest reasoning available today. I recommend three Claude products, each suited to a different way teams work.

Everyday Work

Claude Chat

The conversational assistant at claude.ai. Where most staff start: drafting communications, summarizing documents, researching donors, thinking through hard decisions.

Team Collaboration

Claude Cowork

Built for groups working together. Share projects, context, and institutional knowledge with Claude across your team — so everyone benefits from the same well-informed assistant.

Automation

Claude Code

An agentic assistant that can take real action — moving data between systems, building lightweight internal tools, automating reporting. A force multiplier for technically-inclined staff and consultants.

Already on Gemini or Copilot?

If your organization already runs on Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, Gemini and Copilot are excellent places to start — they're well-integrated, your data already lives there, and your team can be productive immediately. Begin where the friction is lowest.

Insights
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