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From our core cultural tenets—Youth First, Impact-Obsessed, Exceed Expectations, Startup Mindset, One Team, Many Views, and Always Learning—to insights from team members across the organization, this guide brings the Educate! Vibe to life.

Product Design and Learning Manager, Edith Mukyala shares her thoughts on the Educate! Vibe and what it means to her.

Head of Strategic Projects in Product Development, Tanzania, Sylvie Kinabo shares her thoughts on the Educate! Vibe and what it means to her.

Iris pre-reads dashboards and sends reports to teams before meetings enabling them to show up to meetings with context and ultimately making decision making more efficient.

Playlab lets you test AI models in a simple chat-based interface before committing engineering time or paid API usage. You can experiment with system prompts, compare how different models respond, and evaluate whether the AI produces the type of content or reasoning you’re aiming for. It’s particularly useful in early-stage prototyping, when you’re still shaping the idea.

Confused about what AI tool you’re supposed to use… and when?

That confusion costs time, money, and the impact we could’ve made if we moved faster & with clarity.

This policy breaks down what you already have, what you can request, and how access works.

In this compelling episode of The Future Unveiled, host Fahed Bizzari, Managing Partner at Bilami Alden AI Consulting and one of the world’s foremost thinkers on AI transformation and organizational evolution, unpacks a reality many leaders overlook. While most organizations approach AI as a technology challenge, Fahed reframes it entirely.

Discover how Siler Bryan, Principal Strategist for Out-of-School Youth at Educate!, uses Insight Loop - a prototyped AI agent built in Google AI Studio - to unlock real-time insights from end users. Instead of waiting weeks for slow, manual research, Insight Loop automates outreach, gathers responses at scale, and instantly highlights the patterns that matter. If you’re curious about what fast, AI-powered audience understanding looks like in action, this is worth a watch.

Lucy Macharia, Performance Metrics Manager, walks you through the AI Prompt Optimizer—a tool built to instantly level up the clarity, precision, and impact of your prompts.

Most poor outputs come from unclear instructions; this tool helps you fix that.

Successful AI transformation begins with identifying real problems, real workflows, and real opportunities.

Educate! AI Responsible Use Policy

This policy provides practical guardrails for using AI responsibly. Grounded in our Cultural Tenets, it’s built on a simple principle: we remain accountable for every AI-assisted output.

Inside, you’ll find clear guidance on turning off model training, protecting sensitive data, and using AI confidently and securely in your work.

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Tech speaker and journalist Alexandra Samuel says many of us use AI only as a supercharged search engine. She recommends going further — building custom assistants to aid decision-making, strategy, training, and more. In this podcast, she shares practical ways to create assistants that boost efficiency and tackle complex challenges.

Watch: What a Stanford Professor Thinks You’re Getting Wrong About AI

Jeremy Utley suggests that the real gap in AI use isn’t technical — it’s mindset. In this short talk, he breaks down how a small shift in how we approach AI can make all the difference.

Watch: What ex-Harvard and IMD Business School Professor Teaches About Riding the AI Wave

Michael Watkins highlights how critical it is to stay afloat in this era of rapid technological evolution, and surf the ever-changing tide of AI.

This OpenAI guide is designed for product and engineering teams exploring how to build their first agents, distilling insights from numerous customer deployments into practical and actionable best practices.

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Accenture’s Paul Daugherty and James Wilson explain why using AI well isn’t about prompts — it’s about how you think with the tool. They introduce three essential “fusion skills” that help professionals collaborate more effectively with AI, from refining their judgment to co-learning with the model in real time.

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Come with questions, ideas, or use cases you want help thinking through. The goal is to build confidence, boost fluency, and support meaningful integration of AI into your day-to-day work.

An easy to read guide that could be helpful if you’re looking for ways to using ChatGPT to make your work easier.

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A practical video library showing how impact-oriented teams are using AI across fundraising, comms, data analysis, and more.

You can now share feedback, ideas, concerns, or anything on your mind directly with Boris, Educate!’s CEO, at any time (and anonymously if you prefer).

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For everyone who has ever thought: This meeting could have been an email!, the data suggests you’re right.

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Meetings work best when we know who’s actually showing up. Otherwise, we all enter the dreaded zone (aka humans staring at their screens, wondering whether to start or wait).

The reality is you will miss meetings. You will also be late sometimes. Life happens! Find out what to do if you can’t make a meeting…

Ever watched a good idea stall for months?

The biggest risk isn’t launching an imperfect solution.
The biggest risk is launching nothing… or launching something no one adopts.

This piece breaks down the trap and how to escape it.

The best process is the one that solves a real pain point—and actually sticks.

Boris led a discussion on the importance of communication standards and norms in the organization, and the need to manage communication overload to improve productivity.

Your cheat sheet for (almost) everything Educate! — the principles, norms, and go-to management resources that shape how we work, lead, and make decisions.

Burnt out? Scattered? Still stuck in your inbox? You’re not alone. In Deep Work, Cal Newport drops the truth blow: Focused people win. Everyone else scrolls.

Deep Work exposes the silent killer of real focus… and shows how to reclaim your brain.

A Leadership Fable About Solving The Most Painful Problem in Business.

If you’ve ever left a meeting wondering what just happened - or why it happened at all - Death by Meeting might be exactly what you didn’t know you needed.

Find out about the 3 techniques of an effective manager: One minute goals, One minute praises, and One minute reprimands.

Each of these takes only a minute but is purportedly of lasting benefit.

We’re inviting staff to nominate Culture Champions and share meaningful impact stories from across Educate!. These nominations help us spotlight the people and moments that bring our culture and mission to life. Selected stories will be featured in upcoming All Hands Calls.

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This call set the tone for the year ahead. The discussion highlighted not only what we are prioritizing this year, but how we work together to deliver on those priorities. Clear strategy, strong execution, and a values-driven culture will guide our impact in 2026.

This All Hands Call focused on how Educate! is strategically embracing AI as a platform shift – similar to the advent of the internet – and how we can leverage it to accelerate our impact, scale our work, and future-proof our growth.