AI for Nonprofits · Template

AI Vendor Evaluation Checklist

Data agreements, encryption, where data lives

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Evaluate an AI vendor without a security team.

Small nonprofits don't have a Chief Information Security Officer. But every AI vendor now expects one. This checklist gives you the questions to ask, the data-agreement language to look for, and the answers that should make you walk away — in language a director of operations can use.

What’s inside

  • Twenty-item vendor evaluation checklist covering data, storage, and training use
  • The three contract clauses that matter most (and what to substitute if they're missing)
  • A one-page vendor-response scoring sheet
  • Guidance on the two red-flag answers that should end the conversation

You may not need this if: You have IT or legal running vendor evaluations already.

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