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My organization uses Foundant for Grant, Scholarship, and Assistantship applications. We recently received two applications that were generated by AI (ChatGPT). The prompt to the essay was copied, pasted, and entered into ChatGPT and the response generated was submitted directly to the scholarship application as the applicant's work. We tested it, and it came back nearly identical.

I am curious if anyone has implemented an AI policy, or verbiage on applications regarding the use of AI on applications. Our Board is meeting for their annual meeting in a few weeks and this is a topic of discussion on our agenda, I would like to bring suggestions and examples of other nonprofit organizations to help aid in their discussion.

Thank you in advance for your response.

Kelly,

Sorry this response is so late, but hopefully this helps. To get scholarship payments out for students who were attending for-profit training facilities, we partnered with a local non-profit that works with individuals in the career training space. In my case in Michigan, it was MichiganWorks and a local chapter near my community foundation. The community foundation handles the application, selection of scholarship recipients, and initial payment. I reach out to my contact when I have student that I've flagged and we send the payment to MichiganWorks and they work directly with the student since they have more flexibility in this space.

We have had a lot of success with this so that we can support the student who is attending linemen school at a university and linemen school at a for-profit company. We've also been able to use this partnership to help students in their next career training move - for example, maybe they needs tools or equipment. MichiganWorks has been able to facilitate that process on our behalf. Apprenticeships has been trickier, I've really only had luck in the tools/equipment space in these cases.

I hope this helps! Feel free to reach out if you have questions.

-Megan