Every applicant leaves with a clear readiness picture
Knowing your AI readiness helps your board and staff see what is already strong, where the gaps are, and what to do next. That clarity has value whether or not you join the cohort.
Apply in three steps: create your free TappHQ account at tapphq.com/dcf, complete your AI readiness assessment, and explore your results. You receive a readiness category and a practical next-step picture. Selected organizations build from that baseline. Organizations that are not selected still keep the diagnostic and remain on the free tier of the platform from kickoff.
Capacity built to last
AI returns hours when systems, data, and support are in place. A funded year of configuration, training, and one-to-one help gives your team working tools and a path to continue on your own operating budget after the funded year.
The Nonprofit AI Capacity Cohort is a Delaware Community Foundation program for twenty Delaware 501(c)(3) organizations, with Tapp Network as the implementation partner.
What the twenty selected organizations receive
AI readiness assessment and readiness report
A baseline across readiness areas, plus a diagnostic of strengths, gaps, risks, and a practical next path. Every applicant gets a category. Selected organizations build from that baseline.
Twelve months of funded platform access
Access to the platform for the funded year, with no charge to your organization during that year.
A configured workspace
Your workspace is set up and seeded with information you already have. Your team adds knowledge and daily use so the system becomes yours.
Core systems matched to your work
Initial setup of selected systems such as GrantsHQ, ComplianceHQ, TappIQ, ContentHQ, StakeholderHQ, LearningHQ, and SupportHQ, plus reporting views. You start where it matches your work and pilot one system or one workflow first.
An AI assistant and ready-made agents
Plain-language help drafting, summarizing, and answering questions from your own approved information. More than 200 ready-made agents built for nonprofit departments. You can build additional agents as use expands.
Cohort training
Group onboarding. Monthly cohort webinars. Quarterly in-person sessions in Delaware. An always-on library of guides, recordings, and walkthroughs inside the platform.
Five hours of dedicated one-to-one support
Onboarding, configuration guidance, training, and hands-on help with Tapp Network consultants. Group webinars and cohort sessions do not draw down those hours.
Policy, guardrails, and reassessment
Plain-language AI use policy, data handling rules, and human oversight standards your board can adopt. Human approval before writes that change your records. An end-of-cohort reassessment so you can show what changed.
After the funded year
The goal is that your organization can continue on its own operating budget.
The platform behind the cohort
The work runs on a nonprofit operating platform built for small and mid-size organizations. It is a secure workspace for documents and program information, with AI systems for grants, compliance, communications, stakeholder management, onboarding, and support, plus an AI assistant and ready-made nonprofit agents.
That platform is TappHQ, from Tapp Network. You create your free TappHQ account there, then complete the readiness assessment. Selected organizations keep building inside the same environment.
Guided self-build: Tapp Network configures and seeds what is available. Your team supplies knowledge and daily use.
More detail: tapphq.com
If selected, your organization gets:
- A workspace configured and seeded with information you already have
- Core systems matched to your work (GrantsHQ, ComplianceHQ, TappIQ, ContentHQ, StakeholderHQ, LearningHQ, SupportHQ, and reporting views)
- TappIQ for drafting, summarizing, and questions against approved information
- Ready-made agents, with the ability to build custom agents later
- Plain-language AI use policy and data guardrails before systems go live
- Human approval before writes that change your records
- Role-based access. Your organization owns its data. You can export and leave anytime.
How to apply
Three steps. Create your free TappHQ account, complete your AI readiness assessment, then explore your results. DCF notifies organizations that are awarded a seat. Every applicant keeps a free TappHQ account and a clear readiness picture.
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Create a free TappHQ account
Sign up at tapphq.com/dcf. This is step one of your application to the Nonprofit AI Capacity Cohort.
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Complete your AI readiness assessment
About eight minutes online. You get a readiness category and a practical next-step picture.
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Explore your results
Review your readiness picture and what to strengthen next. Selection notice around November 3 to 4.
Disclaimer: DCF notifies organizations that are awarded a seat. If you are not selected, you keep your free TappHQ account and everything on the free tier.
By completing this application, your organization agrees to share its AI readiness assessment data with Delaware Community Foundation.
After you apply, hold Monday, November 9, 12:00 to 1:00 PM ET, for the mandatory kickoff webinar.
- Data readiness: whether data is accessible, organized, clean, integrated, and usable (the gate for implementation)
- Technology readiness: whether the technology stack is modernized and connected
- Capacity to implement: whether leadership and staff have the commitment, time, and ability to adopt new tools
- Policy foundation: whether the organization has, or can adopt, AI policies and data safeguards
- Funding readiness: whether the organization can sustain the capability after the grant
- Change management: whether the organization can absorb changes in how work gets done
- Use case clarity: whether the organization knows what it wants AI to help with
If you are still building foundations, apply anyway. You will leave with a clear picture of what to do first.
Key dates
- October 1 to 31
Applications open. Create your free TappHQ account, complete the readiness assessment, and explore your results.
- Around November 3 to 4
Selection notification.
- By Friday, November 6
Return the signed participation agreement promptly (target date).
- Monday, November 9, 2026, 12:00 to 1:00 PM ET
Mandatory kickoff webinar. Hold the date when you apply.
- Through fall 2027
Funded year. Workspace configuration, guided adoption, reassessment before year end.
If selected, participation includes a mandatory kickoff webinar on Monday, November 9, 2026, 12:00 to 1:00 PM ET. Organizations will be notified of selection around November 3 to 4 and will need to return the signed agreement promptly (target: by Friday, November 6) so the cohort can start on time. Please hold November 9 on your calendar when you apply.
Who should apply, and what we ask
Delaware 501(c)(3) organizations with:
- At least one operating problem you want AI to help with
- Documents and data you can share
- A staff lead who will own adoption
If selected, you sign a participation agreement with the Delaware Community Foundation and commit to milestones: attend the November 9 kickoff, complete onboarding, use your systems in daily work, and hit the milestones in your agreement. There is no charge to your organization for the funded year. Participation commitments are required.
Who does what:
Delaware Community Foundation
Funds the cohort and selects who joins. It receives aggregate readiness and outcome reporting only, not your internal data.
Tapp Network
The implementation partner: workshops, configuration, and one-to-one guidance.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who owns our data?
You do. The Delaware Community Foundation receives summary-level readiness and adoption reporting only, never your internal operating data. Role-based access. Export and leave anytime.
Our staff is new to AI. Can we apply?
Yes. The assessment looks at commitment, usable data, and operating readiness. It does not require AI expertise. Training is part of what selected organizations receive.
Who delivers the program?
Tapp Network and the Delaware Community Foundation partner on this cohort. The Delaware Community Foundation funds and selects. Tapp Network implements setup, training, and one-to-one consulting on the platform.
What is included for selected organizations?
A configured workspace, matched systems and agents, an AI use policy, cohort training, five hours of dedicated one-to-one support, and an end-of-cohort reassessment.
What if we are not selected?
You still receive a readiness category and a next-step picture of real value for your board and staff. You remain on the free tier of the platform from kickoff.
What is the platform called?
TappHQ, from Tapp Network. You create your free TappHQ account there, then complete the assessment. Selected organizations continue there through the funded year.
Start with a clear picture of your readiness.
Applications close October 31. Free signup. About eight minutes. Every applicant gets a readiness category and a practical next step.
If selected: notified around November 3 to 4; return the signed agreement promptly (target Friday, November 6); mandatory kickoff Monday, November 9, 2026, 12:00 to 1:00 PM ET - please hold that time when you apply.