ALL Applied AI Network Foundation
ALL Applied AI Network Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that gives university students the playbooks, software and fiscal sponsorship to start and run applied AI clubs.
Everything a student club needs to run a serious applied AI program, free.
Six playbooks cover the first five weeks, speaker events, sponsorship, Innovation Labs, hackathons and research groups, with three short films. Each one is what the MSOE AI Club learned by running it, including what went wrong.
Officers run the roster, events, check-in and attendance from one place. Members check in with a QR code and earn points and badges on their profile.
Each chapter can have a live site on all-ai-network.org that updates from the dashboard, so officers don’t maintain a second website.
Companies sponsor a chapter, fund a prize pool or back an Innovation Lab through the sponsor portal. The Foundation holds the funds and pays out the reimbursements and prizes officers approve, so no student treasurer needs a bank account.
Companies the Foundation approves can see member profiles and recruit from the room. Any member with an account can turn that off with one switch.
A free map of the best AI learning resources that already exist, sorted into a skill tree a student can follow from first steps to real projects.
Chapters pay no dues and no fees, and the Foundation takes $0 from sponsorships and gifts, and card processing is the only cost. Fiscal sponsors commonly keep a percentage of each gift; we keep none.
The playbooks come from the MSOE AI Club, which grew from 20 active members to 500+ at a school that graduates fewer than 100 computer science students a year. Everything in them was run there first.
In an Innovation Lab a company brings a real problem, funds a prize pool and mentors a student team for eight weeks. Direct Supply’s Applied AI Director: “We’ve hired more quality candidates through Innovation Labs than any career fair we’ve attended.”
Chapters raise money through the Foundation, which holds it for them, so a student club can accept a sponsorship without opening its own bank account. Online gifts get an emailed tax receipt.
The playbooks are licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, and the code for this site and the chapter website template is MIT-licensed, on GitHub. Any school can read, copy or improve them without signing up.
This began as the AI Club at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, founded by Xander Neuwirth in 2020. The first year ran on a budget of zero and mostly went wrong: weekly technical workshops that were too advanced for freshmen and too basic for juniors, and not many people came back.
Two things worked: speaker events anyone could walk into, and projects scoped with a company that ran a couple of months with older students mentoring younger ones. That version of the club grew past 500 members, and other schools started asking how to copy it. We set the first few up by hand, realized that didn’t scale, and turned it into a nonprofit.
Founder
President of the MSOE AI Club from fall 2023, when the club was rebuilt around speaker events anyone could walk into. Builds the software chapters run on.
Co-founder
Director of the Computer Science program at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, and advisor to the founding chapter.
Every chapter is run by its own student officers. The founding team holds the money, maintains the software and writes the playbooks.
Questions go to hello@all-ai-network.org. The Getting Started playbook covers a chapter’s first five weeks.
We’re a 501(c)(3) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and we hold the money, so a student treasurer never has to become an accountant.
ALL Applied AI Network Foundation is a nonprofit corporation recognized as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Chapters are projects of the Foundation rather than separate legal entities.
When someone gives to a chapter, the gift goes to the Foundation, restricted to that chapter’s charitable work. The Foundation holds and accounts for the funds; the chapter spends against them. We do not take a platform fee.
No. There are no dues and no fees, and the Foundation takes $0 from the money a chapter raises; card processing is the only cost.
No. Chapter events are free and open to anyone, with no sign-up needed to attend. The founding chapter grew through software and computer engineering, UX, business and mechanical engineering students as much as through computer science.
Yes. An existing club claims its chapter instead of starting a new one, keeps its name and its site, and adds the dashboard, the sponsor portal and the playbooks.
A company or donor gives to the Foundation, restricted to that chapter’s work, and gets a receipt stating what is tax-deductible. The Foundation holds and accounts for the money, and the chapter spends it through reimbursements and prizes its officers approve.
No. Chapters are projects of the Foundation, so a student club doesn’t need its own bank account to accept a sponsorship. Some universities route corporate sponsorships through their own advancement office, and a chapter follows its school’s rules.
Companies the Foundation has approved can browse member profiles, and each member also has a public profile page; both are on by default. Any member with an account can turn both off with one switch under Profile → Share, and the privacy policy has the details.
The Foundation has an exploratory partnership with NVIDIA to potentially scale the MSOE AI Club’s model beyond MSOE. NVIDIA engineers have spoken at the founding chapter, which was a pilot school of the NVIDIA Student Network in 2023.
Gifts are tax-deductible and the receipt arrives within a minute. Every chapter has its own giving page; the founding chapter’s is below. Companies that want to sponsor a chapter, fund a prize pool, or put engineers in front of students start at the sponsor portal.
Questions about the Foundation, a chapter, or a gift: hello@all-ai-network.org. Our privacy policy covers what we collect and why, and lists our legal name and EIN.
