Practical Skills Workshop: Applied AI in Social Impact & Stakeholder Engagement (L2) - 25 November

This training workshop will bring practical guidance - through exercises in a group lab setting -to help practitioners build the ability to apply AI prompts and functions using Large Language Models (LLMs) to common social impact functions.

The course will be delivered online over Zoom. This is a hands-on, interactive session. To participate in exercises, participants will need to have access to an AI LLM such as Chat GPT, CoPilot, Claude, etc (free versions should be sufficient).

The focus will be on AI prompt engineering exercises for:

• developing a theory of change

• stakeholder mapping and analysis

• preparing stakeholder engagement plans

• developing monitoring & evaluation plans

• data analysis (qualitative and quantitative), including of public comment datasets

• SROI/social valuation, and

• impact reporting.

Prompting guidance will be given for supporting social impact practice rigour and ethical considerations (including equity, inclusion, sovereignty, quality assurance and fairness).

Frameworks for critically assessing AI outputs will also be provided.

Who it’s for

• Social impact professionals

• SIA practitioners, evaluators

• Community engagement specialists

• Local government staff

• Social impact practitioners that want to develop practical AI skills (prompt engineering)

• Organisations/ project teams building internal AI capability

What past participants say about Social Impax training courses:

• 5.00/5 star average Trainer rating.

• “Wonderful and very supportive for social impact practitioners"

• “I felt encouraged by the risk-conscious approach to AI application you outlined. It helped me as I'm shaping a more nuanced understanding of how I work with AI, where it offers the greatest benefits and where I need to be more cautious and ensure more robust approaches to risk management and human interface”

• “I loved this course it really helped me realise everyone is using AI and I need to get over my reluctance to work with it”

• “Thankful that it wasn't pitched at absolute beginners, but still could be useful to anyone regardless to their current level of AI usage. Loved the interactive parts…. Thought it was fantastic! Thanks so much!

Past course participants have also expressed they particularly valued the practitioner networking opportunity in our courses, especially the peer discussions and learning about how other social impact practitioners and organisations are applying AI in their own work.

Course Technical Level:

This is a L2 course.

Guidance to our course levels:

Level 1 (L1): Foundational AI literacy, risk & ethics, tools & applications in social impact

Level 2 (L2):  Practical skills, prompt engineering

Level 3 (L3):  AI agents, orchestration, automation

Follow-on training options

Social Impax also offers the following courses as part of its Practical AI Skills for Social Impact Professionals training series, which can be booked separately.

• AI Skills for Social Impact & Engagement Professionals (L1 - foundations)

• Applying agentic AI in social impact and stakeholder engagement (L3)

What this training is not:

This is not AI coding or software training — it’s practical guidance for practitioners who want to use AI confidently and understanding its application in the social impact practice context