Cognitive Sovereignty Self-Audit for Non-profit Directors
This audit measures whether AI tools are shaping your grant writing, impact reporting, and strategic decisions or whether you remain the primary decision-maker. Your answers reveal where you might be outsourcing judgements that should stay with you and your team.
Before you use AI to write anything that goes to a donor or funder, ask yourself: would my team member say this the same way? If not, rewrite it yourself.
When AI suggests a metric or outcome, ask your community first what they care about. Let their answer shape what you measure, not the other way around.
Give your team explicit permission to disagree with AI recommendations. Their lived experience of programme reality matters more than data analysis.
Treat grant rejection as a conversation, not a data problem. Call the funder and ask what they really meant before you ask AI to help you rephrase.
Keep a monthly log of decisions where you overrode AI advice. That log shows you where your real judgement still lives.