AI for your everyday office work. Not a trial, a change that lasts.

The full programme cost is ₹6 lakh per organisation. Your organisation invests ₹3 lakh, and the remaining ₹3 lakh (50%) is funded by Project Tech4Dev as part of its nonprofit capacity-building grant. Your investment is paid once, in advance, after your organisation is selected. We are not able to take part payments for this cohort.

Registered nonprofits in India with an annual budget of ₹5 crore or more, a back-office task the team repeats often, a department head who can give it 4 to 6 hours a week, and a CEO, COO, ED or founder who will take part in the go-or-stop decisions. The readiness check above walks through these. After you apply, we would set up a short conversation about your organisation and the task you have in mind, followed by a 15 to 20 minute technical call with the Dhwani team. Selected organisations are announced on 4 November, and a small waitlist is kept.

One person per organisation: the head of the department whose work you want to improve. That would be the HR director for an HR task, or the finance head or director of finance for a finance task, and so on. The CEO, COO, ED or founder joins the three leadership check-in calls. You won’t need an in-house tech or AI team; the Dhwani technical lead takes care of the build, working with the department head.

Plan for about five months of active work, then three months of light check-ins. The department head should plan for 4 to 6 hours a week for working sessions, testing and feedback. The CEO, COO, ED or founder joins three short leadership check-in calls: when the task is picked, before it goes into daily use, and when you decide whether to keep it. Most of the work happens online; mid-way through the second month, the cohort meets for one working day in person, in Delhi or Bengaluru depending on where the selected organisations are based.

Back-office work: finance, expenses and procurement; people, HR and organisational knowledge; fundraising and proposals; compliance and donor reporting; admin and operations. Programme delivery and field data are outside this cohort. You don’t need to choose before applying; it helps to bring two or three candidate tasks. The final choice is made together in the first month, once we have mapped how the work runs today. The programme covers one main task per organisation; a second can sometimes be looked at if there is time and your team is ready.

No. We won’t build separate software. We would start from the systems you already use, such as your accounting software, HR system or MIS, and connect them with a suggested AI tool such as Claude, ChatGPT or NotebookLM, adding a light connecting layer inside that tool. Which tool we use depends on your organisation, including any licences you already have. Everything is documented and handed over, so your team can run it or change support partners later.

We would be glad to help. Several AI and software providers offer nonprofit pricing, and we can share what we know and help with the application. Approval depends on each provider’s eligibility criteria, so we can’t guarantee it, but we will try to make the process easier for you.

One back-office task that now runs with AI, one person on your team in charge of it, proof that it is being used, and a written note of the monthly running cost and maintenance it needs. Your leaders then decide whether to continue over the next 12 months; if they do, your organisation funds those running costs from then on.

Then we would say so early. Sometimes a simpler way of working, or software you already use, is the better answer. Stopping an idea that isn’t working, with the reasons written down, still counts as completing the programme.

Your data stays yours. We would use only what the task needs, work with samples or remove names wherever we can, follow your own policies and India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and remove our access at the end. Nothing about your organisation is published without your written permission.