AI for the Future of
Non-profit and Research
Organizations
The Forewright Institute develops and teaches methods for using AI to its full potential in the international development, non-profit, and research sectors.
Grounded in insider practice and published evidence.
Current programs
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The Funding Proposal Secrets Lab
For researchers, development consultants and NGO professionals
The Institute's flagship program on proposal writing in the age of AI. Over seven weeks, participants work through a six-step method with AI built into each step, from understanding the call to building a system they can reuse on every application. Based on the book Funding Proposal Secrets, it opens with a free online seminar on how evaluators read proposals.
BY REQUEST
Practical Workshop on Proposal Writing with AI
For universities and institutions only
For universities and organizations preparing their teams for AI-era funding. A practical workshop that gives staff, faculty, and research and development offices a shared workflow to leverage the full potential of AI at every step of the proposal-making process. It also maps what each target funder allows and sets out how to document AI use so that applications stay eligible.
Participants come with a call and leave with a solid first draft in a couple of hours.
Format: 4 to 6 hours · In person or online
UPCOMING
Prompt Engineering for Research
For the social sciences and humanities
Methods and skills for using AI to its full potential at every stage of research, from literature reviews and evidence synthesis to research design, writing, teaching and assessment. Tested in large research projects and held to academic standards.
About the Institute
AI is rewriting development and research.
The Forewright Institute exists to make sure it is written well.
In the international development, non-profit, and research sectors alike, AI is entering every stage of the work, from designing programs and writing proposals to analyzing evidence and reviewing applications. The number of proposals submitted to the same calls are increasing exponentially, and funders are struggling to re-write the rules and cope with the new volumes. The professionals and institutions that learn to use AI well will shape what gets funded, built and discovered next.
The Forewright Institute exists to give professionals in the international development, non-profit, and research sectors the AI-integrated skills the decades ahead will require. It develops methods for using AI to its full potential in both fields, tests them in practice, and teaches them to individuals and institutions. Its work draws on fifteen years of experience as practitioners, applicants and evaluators, and on evidence from behavioral science and studies of AI use.
Its guiding principle: AI will raise the standard of research, non-profit, and development work, and of the proposals that fund it.
Who we are
Paulius Yamin, Founder and Director
Dr. Paulius Yamin is a behavioural scientist who has spent fifteen years on both sides of the funding table. He has helped secure more than US$18 million in funding and has evaluated more than 500 proposals, including for the European Research Council and the UK's Economic and Social Research Council.
He is a Policy Fellow at the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation at Harvard Kennedy School, and a Professor at Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania. In the past, he has served as Scientific Director of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study, Managing Director of the Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania, and created one of the first behavioural units in a Latin American government, in Colombia.
He is also the founder of the Behavioural Lab, where he has advised and continues to advise the World Bank, the OECD, UNDP, the ILO and USAID on behavioral and social norm change, public integrity, and institutional development.
He holds a PhD in Psychological and Behavioural Science from the London School of Economics and is the author of the upcoming book Funding Proposal Secrets.
Karen García, Founder and Director of Partnerships
Karen García has 20 years of experience in education and training linked to performance art and public speaking. She has trained dozens of actors, directors, public speakers, and customer service representatives on creative and effective communication. She has directed and acted on theater plays and TV shows in Colombia and the UK.
She spends the rest of her time as an accomplished interior decorator and has worked and decorated houses for sale in Colombia, the UK, the US, and France. She holds with a Master degree in Interior Decoration at the Barcelona School of Design.
Work with the Institute
The Forewright Institute works with universities, research institutes, non-profit organizations and multi-lateral bodies. To arrange a workshop for your institution, write to outreach@forewright.org
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