AI governance for Canadian nonprofits

Give your board a policy they can actually adopt. This afternoon.

Your staff are already using AI — 80% of Canadian nonprofits are. Most have nothing written down. This kit gives you the board-ready policy and the team workbook that catches you up. Not with a six-month committee. With two afternoons and a $129 kit built for the sector, by fundraisers, with Canadian law under it.

Get the kit — $129 Board-ready template. Team workbook. Canadian. Plain language.

A policy is what your board approves. A practice is what your team does at 4pm on a Tuesday.

They are not the same document, and most of what's circulating online confuses the two. The kit includes both — built to work together, usable on their own.

Why this comes from us

Built by the people who teach this — and help write the rules.

Brazen does AI consulting for nonprofits. Emily is a fundraiser first — twenty years of it, from CARE Canada to KCI, campaigns from $750K to $180M. She teaches this. She also sits on two of the DGSI committees writing Canada's national standards for the ethical use of AI and for digital capability in the nonprofit sector. Most of what's online for you is US legalese or a funnel into someone else's software. That's not us. This is what we built for our own clients. You get it too.

A 60-second hello from Emily

AI-generated · disclosed Yes — that's an AI version of me. I build these, I teach nonprofits to build them, and I'm telling you it's AI. Disclosing it is exactly what a good AI policy asks of you. Consider this a live demo of the thing you're buying.

CAN/DGSI 101 ethics committee

Emily helps write Canada's national standard for the ethical use of AI by small and medium organizations. See the standard.

DGSI 135 — digital skills committee

She also sits on the technical committee for Canada's national standard on digital capability for nonprofit organizations. See the standard.

Current to the month

updated as the rules move — and in 2026, they're moving

Who we work with

Built by the firm these organizations trust.

Saskatchewan Indigenous Cultural Centre

Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra

YMCA Saskatoon

The Grand

Inside Out Theatre

Envision Counselling

Western Development Museum

Moose Jaw Library

Arts organizations, cultural centres, YMCAs, social services, libraries. Budgets from $25K to $50M.

The kit, cracked open

The policy is paper. This is the part that holds.

The policy

AI Use Policy Template

A board-ready policy your board can approve at its next meeting. Customize the marked sections, bring it to the table, done.

Part A — the stable board policy: principles, risk tiers, accountability, review cadence
Part B — staff guidelines that update as tools change, without going back to the board
Data boundaries: what never goes into a free AI tool, in plain words
PIPEDA and provincial privacy compliance, CRA obligations for registered charities
Indigenous data sovereignty provisions
An incident response procedure, blame-free by design

See every section inside →

The practice

AI Practice Framework Workbook

Ten modules your team works through together in 2–4 hours. This is where the policy stops being a PDF and starts being how you operate.

The AI inventory: find out what your team is actually using — most orgs are surprised
The Green / Yellow / Red framework your staff can apply in the moment
The Never-Enter Data List — short enough to memorize, made to tape next to a screen
Vendor questions to ask before any tool touches donor data
Training your team and keeping the practice alive after week one
The Smallest Viable Policy, for very small and very stretched teams

Includes the Language Bank: ready-to-adapt wording for disclosures, website statements, and board conversations.

See all ten modules →

See what you're getting

Real documents. Built to put in front of a board.

The AI Use Policy Template — board-ready cover — AI Use Policy Template

The AI Practice Framework Workbook — AI Practice Framework Workbook

Designed. Plain-language. Canadian. Yours to customize.

The whole kit. $129.

The policy protects the organization. The practice keeps the policy from becoming a document nobody opens. Both, plus every tool — and the research memo behind the whole thing, thrown in once you buy. No add-ons. No upsell.

$129

Get the full kit — $129

Instant download. One-time payment, no subscription. The policy template, the practice workbook, the white paper, and the done-for-you tools — yours to keep and reuse across your organization.

Updated June 2026 — and kept current as Canada's rules change.

Take it to your board. If it's not a policy they can actually adopt, email Emily within 30 days — full refund, and you keep the kit. We'd rather you have it than not.

Who built this

Written by fundraisers. Not by a software company.

Brazen Fundraising is a Canadian consulting firm that works on campaigns from $750K to $180M. We built this kit because our clients kept asking for it and everything on the market was either American, legalese, or a sales funnel for someone's software. There is no tool attached to this kit. We have nothing to sell you after it works.

Governance isn't bureaucracy. It's care — for your donors, your staff, and the communities you serve.

Meet Emily Bocking, the person behind it →

Meet the rest of the crew at brazenfundraising.com →

If you'd rather not do it alone

The kit works on its own. You don't have to stop there.

A second set of eyes

Reviewed by Emily

You did the kit. Your draft policy is done. Your Green / Yellow / Red is on the wall. Before it hits your board table, Emily reads every line, marks it up, and sends it back with a short recorded walkthrough — so the version they see is one she'd put her own name on.

One organization, one round of review
Your draft, marked up in plain language
A short recorded walkthrough — what to change, and why
Back to you within a week

$500

For the ED who's done the work and doesn't want to sit in the board meeting hoping.

Get it reviewed — $500

The intensive

Emily in the room with your team

Half a day or a full day, in person or on Zoom. Your team builds the policy and the practice together — real workflows on the table, real staff naming what they're already using, the board conversation prepared with you before it ever happens. You leave with your policy in the drawer and your practice in the room.

Your whole team, one working session
Policy and practice built live, on your actual data
The board conversation prepared with you, in the room
Half-day or full-day, in person or remote

$2,500+

For the ED who wants this done — and wants Emily in the room while it happens.

See training & facilitation →

The kit is what to do. The book is why.

Emily's writing Dignified Intelligence — a book about AI in the nonprofit sector that doesn't ask you to choose between efficiency and humanity. The kit gets your house in order today. The book is the thinking underneath it. Kit buyers hear about it first.

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Fair questions

Before you buy

What if it's not right for us?: Take it to your board. If it's not a policy they can actually adopt, email Emily within 30 days and we'll refund every dollar — and you keep the kit. The risk is ours, not yours.
Is this legal advice?: No. It's a template and a facilitation framework, built from sector research and reviewed practice. It's designed so your team can make informed decisions and document them. For questions specific to your situation, talk to a lawyer — the kit will make that conversation shorter and cheaper.
How long does this take?: The policy template: an afternoon to customize, one board meeting to approve. The workbook: 2–4 hours with your team, in one session or spread across a week.
We're tiny. Is this overkill?: The workbook includes the Smallest Viable Policy — a stripped-down version for organizations where one person wears five hats. Start there. Grow into the rest when you're ready.
Is it Canadian?: Yes, specifically. PIPEDA, provincial privacy law, CRA obligations for registered charities, Indigenous data sovereignty. Most templates online are written for US law and it shows.
Why both documents?: The policy without the practice tends to become a PDF in a shared drive. The practice without the policy leaves your board exposed. They do different jobs, so the kit includes both — there's nothing else to buy.