Conservation Organization Improves Grant Review Process with LLMs

A philanthropic organization aimed to improve their labor-intensive, manual grant review process by exploring Generative AI. They sought to apply responsible AI processes, reduce time-consuming steps, enhance the quality and speed of the review cycle, and create a force multiplier for future growth. Challenges included scale and complexity, time-consuming reviews, variability in evaluations, and volunteer burnout. The organization implemented an LLM software platform to automate initial proposal reviews and scoring, resulting in efficiency gains, improved consistency, increased volunteer satisfaction, and better outcomes.