Amplified Voices
Transform Community Conversations into Collective Intelligence
Your nonprofit exists to serve your community—but making sense of all the ways they're already talking to you has always been challenging. Through our partnership with the AI Objectives Institute, we bring you Talk to the City (T3C), an open-source AI platform that revolutionizes how nonprofits gather, understand, and act on community input.
The Challenge You Face
Every nonprofit leader knows this frustration: you need authentic community input to guide your programs, demonstrate impact to funders, and ensure you're truly serving those you exist to help. But traditional methods force impossible choices.
Small-scale qualitative research gives you rich stories and deep insights, but funders question whether 20 interviews really represent your community of thousands. Large-scale surveys provide impressive numbers but strip away the human context that makes your work matter. Public forums become dominated by the same voices while marginalized communities—often those you most need to hear—stay silent.
Meanwhile, your stakeholders increasingly expect genuine engagement. Funders want evidence of community-driven programming. Boards need to hear constituent voices. Advocacy campaigns require authentic stories backed by data. And the communities you serve deserve to be heard in their full complexity, not reduced to statistics or sound bites.
How T3C Changes Everything
Talk to the City, developed by the AI Objectives Institute, transforms the conversations already happening in and around your organization into collective intelligence. The platform analyzes input from virtually any source you're already using—interview transcripts, survey responses, social media discussions, community meeting recordings, written feedback forms, email threads, or even structured conversations through WhatsApp or SMS. You don't need to create new engagement channels; T3C makes sense of the ones you have.
The Process Is Simple Yet Powerful
You likely already gather community input through various channels—comment cards at events, interviews with program participants, social media feedback, town hall recordings, email responses, or formal surveys. T3C transforms all of these into unified, actionable insights.
Community members can share their perspectives however they're most comfortable—whether that's speaking at a community meeting, responding to an online survey, posting on your Facebook page, participating in a focus group, or answering questions via text. The platform works with the engagement methods you already use while helping you expand to new channels when ready.
Behind the scenes, sophisticated AI analyzes all this input to identify themes, surface areas of consensus and disagreement, and organize insights in ways that preserve individual voices while revealing collective patterns. Whether someone shared their story in a two-hour interview or a two-sentence social media comment, their perspective is captured and valued. Every theme links directly back to actual quotes, ensuring transparency and preventing AI hallucination.
The magic happens in the interactive reports.
Instead of static documents, you get explorable visualizations that let stakeholders see overarching themes, then click through to read actual quotes from community members. Board members can explore different perspectives on their own. Funders can see both statistical patterns and human stories. Your team can identify unexpected connections between seemingly unrelated feedback.
Applications for Nonprofit Success
Community Needs Assessment
Replace expensive, time-consuming traditional assessments with rapid, inclusive community listening. Whether launching new programs, entering new communities, or responding to emerging crises, T3C helps you understand what your community actually needs—not what you assume they need.
Program Evaluation & Impact
Move beyond satisfaction surveys to understand how your programs truly affect people's lives. Capture nuanced feedback from program participants, identify unexpected outcomes, and gather the authentic stories that bring your impact reports to life.
Strategic Planning & Engagement
Include hundreds of voices in your strategic planning process without endless meetings. Engage board members, staff, volunteers, donors, and service recipients in structured conversations about your organization's future. Surface tensions before they become conflicts. Build buy-in through genuine participation.
Advocacy & Campaign Development
Ground your advocacy in the authentic voices of those affected. T3C helps you identify the most resonant messages, understand opposition perspectives, and build campaigns that reflect your community's actual priorities—not just your assumptions about them.
Funder Relations & Reporting
Provide funders with both the quantitative data they require and the human stories they crave. Show genuine community engagement in your program design. Demonstrate that your interventions address real needs expressed by real people.
Coalition Building & Alignment
For coalitions or networks, T3C reveals where members align versus where hidden disagreements exist. Surface shared priorities, identify tensions before they derail efforts, and understand how perspectives vary.
Why Open-Source Matters
T3C isn't proprietary software controlled by a corporation—it's open-source technology developed transparently for public benefit. This means no vendor lock-in, no hidden algorithms, and complete alignment with nonprofit values of transparency and accountability. Your community's voices aren't being monetized or manipulated. The same platform used for national policy consultations in Taiwan is available to grassroots organizations in Pennsylvania.
Our Partnership Approach
We don't just hand you technology and disappear. Our comprehensive support includes:
Design & Customization
We work with you to design engagement strategies that match your community's culture, languages, and communication preferences. Every question sequence is crafted to generate insights aligned with your specific goals.
Implementation Support
From participant recruitment to message scheduling, we handle the technical details so you can focus on relationships. We help you navigate consent, privacy, and ethical considerations while ensuring maximum participation.
Analysis & Reporting
Raw data means nothing without interpretation. We transform T3C's outputs into actionable reports tailored for your audiences—whether that's your board, funders, advocacy targets, or community members themselves.
Capacity Building
We train your team to understand and use these insights effectively. This isn't about making you dependent on consultants—it's about building your organization's capacity for ongoing community engagement.
Real Impact in Action
Talk to the City has been deployed in significant real-world applications:
Taiwan's National AI Policy: Analyzed datasets on AI governance, same-sex marriage, and 2024 presidential election platforms, directly shaping national policy debates.
Tokyo Gubernatorial Election: Engaged 1,000 residents to identify policy priorities, helping a third-party candidate secure an unprecedented share of the vote.
Gender-Based Violence Research: Analyzed 85+ in-depth interviews for Young Women's Alliance in Australia, preserving individual voices while surfacing patterns that informed legislation passed by the New South Wales Legislative Council.
Democratic Input on AI Governance: Collaborated with Chatham House on engaging over 1,000 participants about AI governance through OpenAI's Democratic Inputs grant.
While these examples show T3C's power at national scale, the same technology is now available for nonprofits of any size to understand their communities with unprecedented depth and breadth.
Investment & Engagement Options
Community Listening Sprint
2-4 weeks
Rapid deployment for urgent decisions or time-sensitive opportunities.
Program Evaluation Package
6-8 weeks
Comprehensive participant feedback with actionable recommendations.
Strategic Engagement Initiative
3-4 months
Full stakeholder engagement for planning, campaign development, or major transitions.
Ongoing Partnership
Annual
Regular pulse-checks, continuous listening, and evolving insights.
Let's Amplify Your Community's Voice
Every voice in your community matters. Every perspective holds wisdom. Every story deserves to be heard. T3C makes this ideal a practical reality.
Ready to transform how you listen to and learn from your community?
"In the past, interviewing a mini public and aggregating their ideas while preserving nuance was impossible with our capacity. Now, with Talk to the City's help, that cost has been reduced to essentially zero. It's broad-listening and it can change the nature of public engagement."
— Audrey Tang, Taiwan's Digital Minister