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Goldhirsh Foundation Partners With OpenAI on ‘AI Nonprofit Jam’

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LA2050 is an initiative of the Goldhirsh Foundation. The foundation served as the Los Angeles regional convener for OpenAI’s day-long AI Nonprofit Jam. The Center for Nonprofit Management joined in a similar role.

OpenAI described the event as, “a one-day, nationwide event that brought together more than 1,000 nonprofit leaders across 10 locations… teams worked with these leaders to explore how generative AI can help scale their impact – and listened to, learned from, and collaborated with those at the center of this vital work."

The AI Nonprofit Jams across the country were hosted by OpenAI in coordination with the Walton Family Foundation, Emerson Collective, Decoded Futures, National Center for Civic Innovation, and Fund for the City of New York.

Goldhirsh Foundation and LA2050 president, Tara Roth, delivered welcome remarks in Los Angeles, kicking off a day that included participation from many of our LA2050 grantees. Among them, Defy Ventures and AltaSea who received free-of-charge AI training from Goldhirsh Foundation’s AI executive-in-residence, Jen García. AltaSea also spoke at the event.

Other speakers included Dr. Robert K. Ross, former president and CEO of The California Endowment, Efrain Escobedo, president and CEO of CNM, and via video, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

AI, especially as related to ethics and community impact, is a topic the Goldhirsh Foundation and LA2050 have been tracking since 2019. For more information, including a video, see this collection of posts: https://la2050.org/blogs/ai/1

Image 1: Open AI Nonprofit Jam participants. Image 2: Goldhirsh Foundation president Tara Roth with AI executive-in-residence Jen García. Image 3: Efrain Escobedo, president and CEO of Center of Nonprofit Management.

*Updated July 18

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