ALL Applied AI Network Foundation
About us
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
What we do. We help students start and run applied AI clubs at their universities — and we act as the nonprofit that holds the money, so a student treasurer never has to become an accountant.
Our mission
Most students who want to work in AI never get to build anything with it before they graduate. Coursework covers the theory; the part that actually gets someone hired — shipping a real project, meeting the people who do this for a living — usually depends on whether their campus happens to have a club that does it well.
We exist to make that less of an accident. We give student organizers the playbook, the software, and the funding rails to run a serious applied AI club, so a student at any university can get the same shot as a student at a school that already had one.
How it started
This began as the AI Club at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. The first year was run 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.
What worked was different. Speaker events anyone could walk into. Real projects, scoped with a company, that ran for 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.
What a chapter gets
- The playbook. Written guides for the things that are hard the first time — running a hackathon, pitching a sponsor, handing the club over to next year’s board.
- The software. A free dashboard for the officers running the club: events with QR check-in, a member roster, project tracking, and a chapter website that deploys in about ten minutes.
- The money rails. Chapters raise money through our 501(c)(3), so a company’s sponsorship is tax-deductible and every gift gets a proper receipt.
- The network. What works at one school gets used at the next one.
How the money works
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.
That has a specific consequence worth stating plainly: when someone gives to support a chapter, the gift is made to the Foundation and is 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.
Support a chapter
Gifts are tax-deductible and the receipt arrives within a minute. Every chapter has its own giving page; the founding chapter’s is below.
If you are a company looking to sponsor a chapter, fund a hackathon prize pool, or put engineers in front of students, the sponsor portal is the place to start. If you want to bring a chapter to your campus, begin at Get started.
Contact
Questions about the Foundation, a chapter, or a gift: hello@all-ai-network.org. Our privacy policy covers what we collect and why, and carries our full legal identity.