Announcing Microsoft Elevate for Changemakers: Build AI skills to accelerate your nonprofit’s impact

Opportunity for every classroom.
Every changemaker.
Every community.

Providing people and organizations with AI skills and tools to thrive in an AI-powered economy.

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AI is reshaping our world—and communities everywhere are rising to meet the moment. We're working to ensure that AI helps expand opportunity, strengthen institutions, and solve real-world problems. By connecting educators, nonprofit leaders, and learners with the support they need, we can help elevate whole communities.

Putting people first, we are committed to ensuring AI serves everyone.

Bold tools for big missions

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Empower teams with AI

Put AI to work at your organization to increase the productivity of staff and volunteers, from drafting documents and messages to generating insights from data.

AI for nonprofits

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Scale your mission

Get access to secure, affordable, AI-powered technology to transform nonprofit operations. Automate processes and build agents to accelerate mission outcomes.

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Empowered educators, future-ready students

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Empower educators and school leaders

Connect educators and school leaders with global communities, professional development, and resources to confidently transform teaching and learning with AI.

Explore Microsoft Elevate for Educators

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Build future-ready skills

Equip students with future-ready skills through AI-powered learning tools, adaptable resources, and accessible technology.

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Learning for everyone

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Start your AI journey

Explore free, flexible AI learning paths and certifications designed for students, jobseekers, career changers—anyone ready to grow.

Explore our AI Skills Navigator

Earn credentials with AI

Earn credentials that open doors and build confidence in a rapidly evolving workforce.

Explore AI skills

Progress through partnerships

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Partner to expand access

Collaborate with agencies and organizations that are retraining workers and expanding access to opportunity.

Learn about some of our partnerships

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Turn insights into action

Explore the Microsoft AI Economy Institute—a corporate think tank advancing research on how AI is transforming work, education, and productivity, and turning insights into real-world solutions.

Explore the AI Economy Institute

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Explore stories of impact from around the world

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Founderz in rural Spain

In the face of rural depopulation, Founderz and Microsoft are helping small businesses thrive with AI. Lucas, who returned to manage his family’s historic hotel, uses Microsoft Copilot to streamline operations and focus on what matters most. With AI tools tailored to entrepreneurs, meaningful work is returning to Spain’s quietest corners.

Opportunity International

Opportunity International is using an Azure-based generative AI chatbot to support farmers in Malawi, accelerating its mission to end extreme poverty.

AI-powered Reading Coach

Reading Coach helps learners build literacy skills and discover the joy of reading. With personalized practice and stories co-created with responsible AI, it makes reading fun, engaging, and empowering for every student.

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Houston Community College

At Houston Community College (HCC), AI is transforming futures. Professor Patricia McManus, in collaboration with Dean Samir Saber, the National Applied AI Consortium, and Microsoft, is equipping students with in-demand AI skills. Through Microsoft Learn for Educators AI Bootcamps, learners are gaining career-ready knowledge and unlocking new opportunities in the digital economy.

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World Bank

To improve the quality of education in Lima, Peru, the World Bank is working with the Lima Regional Directorate to empower 482 teachers with AI to create personalized activities for each student.

Our global partnerships

American Association of Community Colleges

American Federation of Teachers

Code.org

ILO

International Youth Foundation (IYF)

International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)

ISTE+ASCD

JA Worldwide

UNESCO

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The Uplift

Explore more uplifting stories about how technology is strengthening human connections — from helping women farmers in Malawi rebuild after disaster to empowering communities to prepare for what’s next.

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Supporting communities worldwide

AI can elevate everyone. From classrooms to nonprofits, public agencies to training programs, people across the globe are putting AI to work for real-world progress. With the right tools, skills, and support, they’re not just preparing for the future, they’re shaping it.