AI for social good. Practical workflows, product field notes, and stories on building a solarpunk world.https://grantorb.com/en-ushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OXSmBskhSohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OXSmBskhSoHow to use AI for writing without flattening your voice. The prompting moves and editing habits that keep the words sounding like you — only sharper.Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-workflowswritingvoicepromptingyoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqIrBBz-OOshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqIrBBz-OOsA look at the full AI grant system: find, write, win, repeat. What it means when a small nonprofit team can credibly chase millions in funding.Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTgrantorbai-grant-systemfundraisinggrant-writingyoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOBdSMXCIsUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOBdSMXCIsUThe mission behind GrantOrb: free nonprofits from the grant-writing tax so they can spend their time on the work. A direct look at the why.Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTgrantorbproduct-visiongrant-writingnonprofitsyoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLJw4jAzgoUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLJw4jAzgoUCinematic visuals for nonprofits, made fast. A walkthrough of the AI image stack tuned to mission-driven work — from campaign hero shots to social cards.Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-creativevisualsnonprofitsdesignyoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mra29mZUm0Uhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mra29mZUm0UGrant writing is no longer a gatekeeping skill. A short on how AI inverts the funding playing field — and what it means for the orgs that adapt first.Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTfundinggrant-writingai-and-societygrantorbyoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CIQ6ypaz-khttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CIQ6ypaz-kHow to turn a single nonprofit webinar into 100 derivative pieces — clips, posts, blogs, infographics — in seconds. The repurposing stack, in one walkthrough.Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-workflowscontent-repurposingnonprofitswebinarsyoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q__VCYikkakhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q__VCYikkakHow AI grant writing works for churches and faith-based organizations — and why mission-driven funders are surprisingly open when the case is sharp.Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTfundinggrant-writingfaith-basedchurchesyoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/live/CbIPtT8UWUQhttps://www.youtube.com/live/CbIPtT8UWUQA live walkthrough of editing photos in seconds with AI — cropping, lighting, object removal, style transfer. No Photoshop, no plugins, no skills required.Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-workflowsphoto-editingai-toolslivestreamyoutubehttps://grantorb.com/blog/in-grants-ideas-decide-your-win/https://grantorb.com/blog/in-grants-ideas-decide-your-win/You don't lose grants on the writing. You lose them on the idea. Here's how GrantOrb's new IDEAS feature moves your chances of winning upstream.Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTideas-featuregrant-strategyai-workflowsproduct-launchfunder-alignmenthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-67boXaGschttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-67boXaGscA step-by-step playbook for actually winning more grants with AI — what to use, what to skip, and the moves funders quietly reward in 2026.Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTfundinggrant-writingai-workflowsstep-by-stepyoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEf1qQBG7c0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEf1qQBG7c0A funder-specific walkthrough for the Government of Canada's New Horizons for Seniors Program — what funders actually want to see, and how AI helps you deliver it.Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTfundinggrant-writingcanadanew-horizons-for-seniorsyoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHk7U3Qfthchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHk7U3QfthcWhat it takes to push your grant approval rate to 83% — the boring, repeatable mechanics most orgs skip. No magic, no luck, just the moves that compound.Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTfundinggrant-writingwin-ratefundraising-strategyyoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAHvvfnHVyQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAHvvfnHVyQA provocative AI-workflow walkthrough — using today's tools to draft doctrine, art, ritual, and community materials. Building culture is now a stack problem.Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-workflowsculturethought-experimentyoutubeai-creativehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrj_OdOUDFEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrj_OdOUDFEFunder-specific walkthrough for the lululemon Centre for Social Impact grant — what their values reward, what they screen out, and where AI sharpens the case.Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTfundinggrant-writinglululemoncorporate-foundationyoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liuocFJFWvchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liuocFJFWvcA walkthrough of OpenAI's grant funding routes for mission-driven orgs — what they're actually backing, how to position your application, and where AI helps.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTfundinggrant-writingopenaichatgptai-grantsyoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPzdS7BTFCEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPzdS7BTFCEHow to win at the Ontario Trillium Foundation and other major Canadian funders. What they reward, what disqualifies you, and how AI sharpens the application.Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTfundinggrant-writingontario-trillium-foundationcanadayoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d4fSXKhpc4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d4fSXKhpc4A look at how AI agents reshape what a small nonprofit team can do — from outreach to research to operations — once the agentic layer lands.Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-agentsnonprofitsfuture-of-workai-and-societyyoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaukpN8r6nYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaukpN8r6nYWhat 'AI skills' really means in 2026 — beyond the buzzwords. The shortlist of practical capabilities every changemaker should be building right now.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-workflowsai-skillschangemakersyoutubehttps://grantorb.com/blog/how-to-create-epic-ai-visuals/https://grantorb.com/blog/how-to-create-epic-ai-visuals/The timeline is drowning in generic AI slop. Here's the beginner-friendly strategy I use to remix chaotic inspirations into visuals with real soul.Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-creativemidjourneyvisual-storytellingprompt-craftcreative-workflowshttps://grantorb.com/blog/how-to-use-ai-to-eat-healthy/https://grantorb.com/blog/how-to-use-ai-to-eat-healthy/AI is changing how we work — but its most powerful use case might just be eating right. Here's how I use it at the grocery store, the farmers market, and on hikes.Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-workflowseveryday-aihealthnutritionpractical-aihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us8OQ05dcychttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us8OQ05dcycA podcast conversation on what it means when AI compresses grant writing from weeks to minutes — and what nonprofits do with the time they get back.Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTpodcastgrantorbgrant-writingai-and-societyyoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBX1200TMNUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBX1200TMNUTen concrete ways nonprofits can put ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude to work today — across research, drafting, outreach, and operations. No fluff, just the moves.Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-workflowschatbotschatgptgeminiclaudenonprofitsyoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/zUPOmygrPQEhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/zUPOmygrPQEThe hard truth about grant funding: AI can polish your prose, but a weak idea still loses. Sixty seconds on why the idea — not the writing — decides the win.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTgrant-fundinggrantorbideasyoutube-shorthttps://www.youtube.com/live/qRYFsStwbz4https://www.youtube.com/live/qRYFsStwbz4What does a revolution look like when AI does the heavy lifting? A livestream on stacking today's tools to build movements faster than the systems they're up against.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-workflowsmovementssocial-changelivestreamyoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/live/82xZpyAlsN4https://www.youtube.com/live/82xZpyAlsN4A live walkthrough of stacking AI tools to convert a single video link into a polished blog post — plus a few side experiments that surprised us along the way.Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-workflowsvideo-to-textcontent-workflowlivestreamyoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5rM5jE4lLchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5rM5jE4lLcAn open conversation on AI's intersection with religion: what changes when machines write sermons, simulate ancestors, or mediate spiritual practice.Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-and-societyreligionlivestreamphilosophyhttps://grantorb.com/blog/wtf-is-bioregionalism-and-why-ai/https://grantorb.com/blog/wtf-is-bioregionalism-and-why-ai/The real borders of our world aren't political — they're drawn by mountains, rivers, and watersheds. Here's how to use AI on your phone to read your bioregion.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTbioregionalismai-workflowssolarpunkmobile-aicascadiahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fvuBDjidWEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fvuBDjidWEA livestream walkthrough on stacking AI tools to design travel that's actually rooted in a place — beyond top-10 lists and tourist traps.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-workflowstravellivestreambioregionalismhttps://grantorb.com/blog/phone-camera-ai-ultimate-learning-unlock/https://grantorb.com/blog/phone-camera-ai-ultimate-learning-unlock/We walk around with phones obsessed with snapping pictures, but mostly leave it at that. Combining your phone camera with AI is the biggest learning unlock of our generation.Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-workflowsmobile-ailearningphone-cameraeveryday-aihttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/-FeS83TZ9mYhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/-FeS83TZ9mYA bike ride along Vancouver's Seawall, narrated as a bioregional travel experience. Showing what it means to know a place — not just visit it.Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTbioregionalismvancouvertravelyoutube-shorthttps://grantorb.com/blog/how-to-resurrect-dead-video-content-with-ai/https://grantorb.com/blog/how-to-resurrect-dead-video-content-with-ai/Drop a YouTube URL into a chatbox and watch it explode into a thousand assets — blog posts, quotes, takeaways. Stop letting your best work die in the archives.Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-workflowscontent-repurposinggeminivideo-to-textcreator-workflowshttps://grantorb.com/blog/defiant-way-to-build-ai-first-brand/https://grantorb.com/blog/defiant-way-to-build-ai-first-brand/As changemakers, our visual stories shouldn't be safe — they should demand attention. Here's the gritty AI workflow I used for International Women's Day.Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-creativebrand-buildingvisual-storytellinggeminigrokhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/NjoX7c5ylZkhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/NjoX7c5ylZkForget country-hopping. Bioregion-hopping is moving between ecosystems instead of borders. Sixty seconds on the concept and why it changes how you travel.Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTbioregionalismtravelyoutube-shorthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVPCWWPWMf0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVPCWWPWMf0Live walkthrough of the AI image stack: how to go from a vague idea to a polished, cinematic visual in minutes — even if you've never opened Photoshop.Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-creativevisualslivestreamai-toolshttps://grantorb.com/blog/ai-bioregional-hyper-local-travel-hamburg/https://grantorb.com/blog/ai-bioregional-hyper-local-travel-hamburg/I got rerouted mid-air to Hamburg during an air attack on Iran. Stranded in a city I'd never been to, I turned to AI. Here are 10 wild use cases that changed how I travel.Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-workflowstravelbioregionalismmobile-aigrokhttps://grantorb.com/blog/gemini-lyria-create-music-from-pictures/https://grantorb.com/blog/gemini-lyria-create-music-from-pictures/AI music handed me a wild superpower — turning raw writing and thoughts into full tracks in seconds. Here's how I'm doing it inside Gemini with Lyria.Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-creativeai-musicgeminilyriasunohttps://grantorb.com/blog/download-any-skill-with-ai-1000-media-formats/https://grantorb.com/blog/download-any-skill-with-ai-1000-media-formats/AI just opened unlimited possibilities. Take one blog and convert it into video, podcast, song, and comic strip — all in 20 minutes. Here's the workflow.Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-workflowscontent-repurposingmultimodalcreative-workflowsai-musichttps://grantorb.com/blog/ethboulder-3-days-regen-tech-ai/https://grantorb.com/blog/ethboulder-3-days-regen-tech-ai/Three days at EthBoulder — a regen-tech unconference that hit completely different. No scammers, no DeFi hype. Just technologists actually building the future.Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTregen-techunconferenceai-and-societypublic-goodssolarpunkhttps://grantorb.com/blog/arm-up-its-2026/https://grantorb.com/blog/arm-up-its-2026/You can't fight gunships with spears. The tools of the past have failed. Here's the AI arsenal that turned me into an army of one.Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-toolkitchangemakersmanifestosolarpunkai-and-societyhttps://grantorb.com/blog/stop-working-like-machines-deep-dive-gemini/https://grantorb.com/blog/stop-working-like-machines-deep-dive-gemini/I grilled Gemini to decode our future. The Third Unbinding, the Loom Effect, and why schools are outdated. From scarcity of skill to scarcity of vision.Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTai-and-societyfuture-of-workgeminieducationsolarpunkhttps://grantorb.com/blog/daos-without-humans/https://grantorb.com/blog/daos-without-humans/DAOs of today have failed. Humans are the reason why. The future is no-humans-for-humans, powered by AI. Compute scales. Human consensus doesn't.Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTdaosai-agentsgovernancedecentralizationsolarpunkhttps://grantorb.com/blog/notebooklm-changemakers-tool-for-real-change/https://grantorb.com/blog/notebooklm-changemakers-tool-for-real-change/Changing the world requires hard facts, not guesswork. NotebookLM makes unlocking the truth easy — and lets you consume that knowledge 10 different ways.Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTnotebooklmai-workflowsresearchchangemakersstrategic-truth-seekinghttps://grantorb.com/blog/post-work-ai-utopia-culture-series/https://grantorb.com/blog/post-work-ai-utopia-culture-series/Elon says: if you want to know the future, read Iain M. Banks' Culture series. I used NotebookLM to distill it into a sharp 7-minute briefing on the post-work world.Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTai-and-societypost-worknotebooklmiain-bankssolarpunkhttps://grantorb.com/blog/how-ai-turned-me-into-a-cartoonist/https://grantorb.com/blog/how-ai-turned-me-into-a-cartoonist/Nobody reads your articles. So I'm converting all my writing into comic strips with Gemini Nano Banana Pro. Thirty-plus strips in an hour. You can too.Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTai-creativecomicsgemininano-bananavisual-storytellinghttps://grantorb.com/blog/aria-the-network-that-changed-everything/https://grantorb.com/blog/aria-the-network-that-changed-everything/Zero waste. Zero duplication. No worthy idea dies unseen. Four generations. Three planets. One network. ARIA — Allocation and Resource Intelligence Architecture.Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTsci-fifuture-of-fundingariasolarpunkai-and-societyhttps://grantorb.com/blog/im-100-ai-powered-heres-exactly-how/https://grantorb.com/blog/im-100-ai-powered-heres-exactly-how/Live-action AI for Good. Website design, copywriting, visuals, content repurposing, grant writing. All the constraints I had vanished once I started using AI.Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTworkshopai-for-goodtechsoupnonprofit-workflowslive-demoshttps://grantorb.com/blog/the-new-operating-system-for-good/https://grantorb.com/blog/the-new-operating-system-for-good/We're standing at a once-in-a-century convergence: AI, crypto, and mobile. Together they form a new operating system for good. Here's what the future looks like.Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTai-and-societystablecoinsgenius-actmobile-firstsolarpunkhttps://grantorb.com/blog/i-turned-my-blog-posts-into-songs/https://grantorb.com/blog/i-turned-my-blog-posts-into-songs/Songs were never part of our communication strategy. With AI music, that just changed. I turned three popular blog posts into songs — here's how, and what I made.Sun, 16 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTai-creativeai-musicsunogrokcontent-repurposinghttps://grantorb.com/blog/how-ai-gave-me-my-time-back/https://grantorb.com/blog/how-ai-gave-me-my-time-back/None of us signed up for spreadsheets. We signed up for the mission. AI killed the donkey work. Here's a no-fear guide to the fundamentals.Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTai-workflowsai-fundamentalschangemakersgenerative-aihuman-in-the-loophttps://grantorb.com/blog/6-unusual-ways-i-use-ai-outside-of-work/https://grantorb.com/blog/6-unusual-ways-i-use-ai-outside-of-work/I use AI to run my entire life — from what to cook to which cocktail to order to the story behind a song. Six non-standard ways AI saves cognitive energy.Sun, 26 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTai-workflowseveryday-aigrokmobile-aipractical-aihttps://grantorb.com/blog/ai-energy-hog-or-most-powerful-ally/https://grantorb.com/blog/ai-energy-hog-or-most-powerful-ally/Headlines about massive data centers are scary. But what if AI is our best bet to save the world? Busting the myths and showing the responsible path.Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTai-and-environmentsustainabilityon-device-aiindigenous-techsolarpunkhttps://grantorb.com/blog/ai-will-take-your-job-and-4-other-lies/https://grantorb.com/blog/ai-will-take-your-job-and-4-other-lies/Will AI take your job? Isn't it biased? What about ethics? Cutting through the AI noise with clear, confident answers — busted in 5 short clips.Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTai-and-societyai-mythsresponsible-aifuture-of-workchangemakershttps://grantorb.com/blog/stop-being-polite-to-your-ai-command-like-a-boss/https://grantorb.com/blog/stop-being-polite-to-your-ai-command-like-a-boss/Stop treating your AI like a colleague. Polite prompts dilute your output. Command it like a boss — the research backs it up, and so does Sergey Brin.Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTai-workflowsprompt-craftllm-researchpractical-aiproductivityhttps://grantorb.com/blog/90-books-that-fueled-a-mission-to-change-the-world/https://grantorb.com/blog/90-books-that-fueled-a-mission-to-change-the-world/Early in my career, I read widely — sci-fi, social impact, tech, startups, philosophy. These 90 books shaped the vision for GrantOrb. They might ignite yours.Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTreading-listfounder-storygrantorbsocial-impactsci-fihttps://grantorb.com/blog/how-to-make-your-movement-immortal/https://grantorb.com/blog/how-to-make-your-movement-immortal/Every great movement faces the same death sentence — burnout, dilution, fragmentation. AI breaks the pattern. Encoded knowledge. Eternal coordination. Unstoppable.Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTmovementsai-and-societydecentralizationsolarpunkopen-sourcehttps://grantorb.com/blog/i-made-an-ai-music-video-to-expose-fast-fashion/https://grantorb.com/blog/i-made-an-ai-music-video-to-expose-fast-fashion/Fashion is the 5th most polluting industry on Earth. I made 'Consumer Girl' — a 100% AI-generated music video — to wake people up. Here's exactly how.Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTai-creativeai-music-videofast-fashionactivismsolarpunkhttps://grantorb.com/blog/stop-wasting-time-on-ai-hearsay-workshop/https://grantorb.com/blog/stop-wasting-time-on-ai-hearsay-workshop/AI is one of the best things that's happened to us — and yet hesitance is everywhere. Stop wasting time on hearsay. Our problems are too big to move at human speed.Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTworkshopai-and-societyai-mythssocial-impactchangemakershttps://grantorb.com/blog/forget-photoshop-edit-photos-with-nano-banana/https://grantorb.com/blog/forget-photoshop-edit-photos-with-nano-banana/You have powerful stories to tell. Your photos need help. Skip Photoshop, skip the designer fees — Nano Banana does it all by plain English.Sun, 21 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTai-workflowsnano-bananageminiphoto-editingnonprofit-workflowshttps://grantorb.com/blog/the-ai-tool-that-makes-non-creative-people-look-like-creative-geniuses/https://grantorb.com/blog/the-ai-tool-that-makes-non-creative-people-look-like-creative-geniuses/Staring at a blank canvas wondering how to look creative? That feeling just became extinct. Grok Imagine eliminates creative blocks entirely.Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTai-creativegrok-imaginevideo-generationvisual-storytellingchangemakershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuGEBa-5UZchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuGEBa-5UZcA walkthrough of GrantOrb's Template Wizard: drop in a funder's PDF or web form, and the AI fills it with your org's voice. Apply for more grants, faster.Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTgrantorbproduct-demotemplate-wizardgrant-writinghttps://grantorb.com/blog/preparing-your-child-for-the-ai-age/https://grantorb.com/blog/preparing-your-child-for-the-ai-age/The AI revolution is here. It's about to make everything you thought you knew about preparing your child for the future completely irrelevant. Here's what to do.Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTai-and-societyeducationparentingdeschoolingfuture-of-workhttps://grantorb.com/blog/the-creative-explosion-ai-turning-everyone-into-artists/https://grantorb.com/blog/the-creative-explosion-ai-turning-everyone-into-artists/Just as Haussmann's boulevards birthed Impressionism in Paris, AI creative tools are the new infrastructure of imagination. The playing field is finally level.Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTai-creativerenaissancemidjourneygrok-imaginedemocratizationhttps://grantorb.com/blog/the-internet-native-impact-organization-field-guide/https://grantorb.com/blog/the-internet-native-impact-organization-field-guide/DAOs promised decentralized impact but delivered governance theater. Here's what internet-native impact organizations actually look like — and the 5 minimal essentials to start.Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTimpact-daosinternet-native-orgsai-agentsdecentralizationsolarpunkhttps://grantorb.com/blog/stablecoins-turn-usd-into-planetary-currency/https://grantorb.com/blog/stablecoins-turn-usd-into-planetary-currency/What if you could send U.S. dollars anywhere as easily as sending an email? The GENIUS Act just made that the official future. Here's what changed.Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTstablecoinsgenius-actdigital-dollarremittancescrypto-policyhttps://grantorb.com/blog/the-3-step-ai-playbook-for-herculean-impact/https://grantorb.com/blog/the-3-step-ai-playbook-for-herculean-impact/We can't move at human speed to fix problems this big. Here's a 3-step AI strategy — Deep Research + Strategic AI + Ask AI — applied live to fast fashion.Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTai-workflowsai-strategyfast-fashiondeep-researchchangemakershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI-iqFcX0Gshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI-iqFcX0GsA podcast conversation on whether AI grant writing levels the field for under-resourced nonprofits — or whether it's just automation theater dressed up as impact.Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTpodcastgrant-writingai-and-societygrantorbhttps://grantorb.com/blog/grant-funding-in-the-age-of-ai/https://grantorb.com/blog/grant-funding-in-the-age-of-ai/AI just eliminated grant writing as an obstacle and fundamentally changed everything. Here's what changed — and what changemakers need to unlearn.Wed, 06 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTgrant-fundinggrantorbai-for-goodnonprofit-workflowschangemakershttps://grantorb.com/blog/ai-for-social-good-big-fat-guide/https://grantorb.com/blog/ai-for-social-good-big-fat-guide/A year of building in AI, distilled into one guide. Five parts: fundamentals, content tools, insight tools, sector transformation, and the future frontier.Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMTai-for-goodguidechangemakersai-fundamentalssocial-impacthttps://grantorb.com/blog/veo-3-is-magic-we-are-all-filmmakers-now/https://grantorb.com/blog/veo-3-is-magic-we-are-all-filmmakers-now/Veo 3 shatters the silent-AI-video limit. Generate video with synced dialogue, music, and sound effects from a single prompt. Plus the prompts I used.Wed, 28 May 2025 00:00:00 GMTai-creativeveo-3ai-videovisual-storytellingprompt-crafthttps://grantorb.com/blog/a-brighter-future-under-the-ai-sun/https://grantorb.com/blog/a-brighter-future-under-the-ai-sun/AI isn't a far-off utopia — it's the world already taking shape. Healthcare, food, education, democracy. The sun is rising on a new era. What will you build?Mon, 23 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMTai-and-societygenerative-aisolarpunksocial-impactfuture-of-humanityhttps://grantorb.com/blog/ai-in-daos-ultimate-guide-smarter-decentralized-organizations/https://grantorb.com/blog/ai-in-daos-ultimate-guide-smarter-decentralized-organizations/Today's DAOs are bogged down by bloated governance and coordination chaos. AI can fix it. Here's the step-by-step playbook for AI-powered decentralized orgs.Mon, 09 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMTdaosai-agentsgovernancellmsdecentralizationhttps://grantorb.com/blog/how-to-build-a-solarpunk-world-with-ai/https://grantorb.com/blog/how-to-build-a-solarpunk-world-with-ai/Sci-fi paints AI as dystopia. We can flip that narrative. Use AI to visualize the solarpunk future — and inspire people to build it.Tue, 03 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMTsolarpunkai-creativevisual-storytellingnarrativeai-and-societyhttps://grantorb.com/blog/voting-smarter-democracy-in-the-age-of-ai/https://grantorb.com/blog/voting-smarter-democracy-in-the-age-of-ai/Democracies are struggling. Voter apathy, polarization, deepfakes, declining trust. AI has answers — for education, participation, and fighting fake news.Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMTai-and-societydemocracydeepfakescivic-techdaoshttps://grantorb.com/blog/generative-ai-bridges-gap-for-people-with-disabilities/https://grantorb.com/blog/generative-ai-bridges-gap-for-people-with-disabilities/AI's ability to see, hear, speak, and read opens new possibilities for those who face challenges in these areas. Five key applications making the world inclusive.Wed, 14 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMTaccessibilityai-for-goodgenerative-aidisabilityinclusionhttps://grantorb.com/blog/how-to-market-your-cause-with-ai-images/https://grantorb.com/blog/how-to-market-your-cause-with-ai-images/The details are in the prompt. Anyone can create AI art now — the differentiator is imagination and craft. Here's how to write prompts that stand out.Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMTai-creativemidjourneyfluxprompt-craftvisual-storytellinghttps://grantorb.com/blog/generative-ai-for-regens-beginners-guide/https://grantorb.com/blog/generative-ai-for-regens-beginners-guide/You've heard 'Gen AI' everywhere. But what is it — and how do regens actually use it? Here's the beginner's guide: chatbots, images, grants, videos, songs.Sun, 28 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMTgenerative-aiai-fundamentalsregensai-toolkitchangemakershttps://grantorb.com/blog/how-ai-fixes-public-goods-funding/https://grantorb.com/blog/how-ai-fixes-public-goods-funding/Public goods funding is broken — well-resourced orgs keep winning, frontline groups get left out. AI levels the playing field. Here's how.Tue, 23 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMTpublic-goodsgrant-fundinggrantorbai-for-goodequityhttps://grantorb.com/blog/ai-is-creating-a-new-breed-of-10x-changemakers/https://grantorb.com/blog/ai-is-creating-a-new-breed-of-10x-changemakers/AI lets changemakers move fast and fix things. We're entering an era of 10x changemakers — single missions amplified 100x by AI. Here's the case.Thu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 GMTchangemakersgrantorbai-for-goodeducationsocial-impacthttps://grantorb.com/blog/grantorb-your-expert-ai-grant-writer/https://grantorb.com/blog/grantorb-your-expert-ai-grant-writer/Introducing GrantOrb — an AI grant writer that crafts winning proposals in minutes from a brief outline. Save 95% of writing time. 10x your fundraising capacity.Sun, 25 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTgrantorbproduct-launchgrant-writingai-for-goodnonprofit-workflowshttps://grantorb.com/blog/the-future-of-daos/https://grantorb.com/blog/the-future-of-daos/DAOs of today are bloated fund allocators. DAOs of tomorrow will be small, aligned, builder-first — powered by SBTs and LLMs. Here's the shift.Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMTdaossbtsllmsdecentralizationgovernance