--- title: "AI for nonprofits: volunteer training and grants | ekory" description: "AI agents for nonprofits and social cooperatives: procedures, volunteer training, grants and project reports in one place, with the source." url: https://ekory.ai/nonprofits language: en italian: https://ekory.ai/it/nonprofits.md updated: 2026-10-10 --- # Volunteers come and go. What you know stays. Procedures, shifts, grants, reports and minutes in one place, with the page. Every new volunteer learns from your own procedures and finds the answer on their phone, even when the person who knows isn't around. _Example: A new volunteer asks how to welcome a family: the Eko answers with the documents to ask for and the pickup rule._ ## Sound familiar? ### Only Giuseppe knows. He's opened the storeroom every Tuesday for twelve years. He knows which families come through social services, how the parcels are packed and who to call when the van won't start. None of it is written down. ### Every September, back to square one. Ten new volunteers arrive and the coordinator spends her evenings explaining the same procedures. Then the questions come in on WhatsApp, on every shift. ### The invoice the grant didn't cover. The project is over, the report is being prepared, and a €1,800 invoice turns out to be an ineligible cost. The guidelines said so on page 31. ## The questions that all go through one person today. With ekory they get an answer in seconds, with the source. Evenings and weekends too. - Can I claim fuel with a self-declaration? - Can this cost go in the project? - When is our 5 per mille report due? - What do I need to do before my first shift? - What did we commit to in this project? - Can we accept this donation? _Example: Eko Volunteers explains how to help a family without a referral: the one-time pickup rule and the drop-in center's hours._ ## One Eko each for shifts, projects and the office. The same procedures for everyone. **Eko Volunteers** For volunteers Procedures, shifts and what to do in each case, from a phone, with a welcome course for newcomers. **Eko Projects** For grants and projects Eligible costs, commitments and deadlines for every project, with the page of the guidelines. **Eko Office** For the board Bylaws, minutes, the volunteer register and filings such as RUNTS and the 5 per mille, with their dates. Already using ekory: Zetamed, Molteni&C, Tohatsu, Würth, Petzl, Dada [Read the customer stories](https://ekory.ai/case-studies) ## Shared where it helps, private where it matters. - Families' records are seen only by the people who support them. - Volunteers see procedures and shifts. The board also sees accounts and minutes. - Conversations stay private. [Security and data](https://ekory.ai/security) ## What nonprofits ask before they start. ### Can it train new volunteers? Yes. From your procedures, ekory builds a short online course, a podcast and a final quiz, and you see who has completed them. After the course, the volunteers' Eko answers the questions of every shift, citing the procedure and the page, from a phone too, with nothing to install. People sign in with a Google or Microsoft account, or with a link sent by email. ### Does everyone see only what they need? Yes, if you decide so. Create groups per service and per role: volunteers see procedures and shifts, families' records stay with the people who support them, accounts and minutes with the board. Each Eko reads only the folders you give it, and everyone's conversations stay private. ### Do we have to move our documents? No. ekory reads files where they already are, in Google Drive, SharePoint, OneDrive or Notion, plus the pages of your website, and stays up to date when they change, without modifying them. It reads PDFs (scanned ones too), Word, Excel, photos and videos, and every answer shows the document and the page it comes from. ### How much does it cost for a nonprofit? The price has two parts: €199 a month for the platform, plus a per-person fee that drops in tiers. Everyone who uses ekory counts, volunteers included: for 10 people the total is €299 a month, for 25 people €419, excluding VAT; pay annually and you pay for 10 months out of 12. The [pricing page](https://ekory.ai/pricing) works it out for your organization. ### Is the data of the people we help safe? Yes. Your data is stored in Europe, and your content is never used to train AI models: it's written into our contracts with the AI providers, including Google. Permissions apply to every document, folder and Eko and are checked on every question, so families' records stay with the people who support them. Conversations are private, and a data processing agreement (DPA) is available: you'll find the details on the [Security and data](https://ekory.ai/security) page. ## The same method, in other trades. - [**Publishers** Catalog, contracts and house style in one place.](https://ekory.ai/publishers) - [**Literary agencies** Rights, contracts and royalty statements for the whole catalog, in one place.](https://ekory.ai/literary-agencies) - [**Trade associations** Circulars and member services, with answers ready at any hour.](https://ekory.ai/trade-associations) - [**Manufacturing** Every showroom gets finishes, sizes and prices right, and your network learns every new collection.](https://ekory.ai/manufacturing) - [**Machinery and plants** When a machine stops, the fix arrives right away, on every shift.](https://ekory.ai/manufacturing-operations) - [**Construction** Specifications, safety plans and change orders for every site, on a tablet.](https://ekory.ai/construction-companies) [All industries](https://ekory.ai/industries) ## Tell us how you welcome a new volunteer. We'll show you their first course, built from your procedures. For the first call, one procedure and your volunteer rules are all we need.