The Changemaker Fellowship Australia is a six-week program for Australian not-for-profits moving from AI curiosity to a plan their board can act on, delivered by Infoxchange's Digital Transformation Hub in partnership with Microsoft and localised from Microsoft Elevate's global Changemaker Fellowship. 

Across two cohorts of up to fifteen organisations, each brings two people, one with the authority to commit resource and one who will do the work, through six 90-minute sessions.

The Fellowship is a working programme: each organisation selects a single priority use case spends the weeks making it real, building one layer of the plan each week. Governance is grounded in what actually applies here, the Privacy Act and Australian Privacy Principles, the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme, ACNC governance standards and the National AI Centre's Voluntary AI Safety Standard. 

For three to four organisations per cohort, a further three months of build support with Microsoft technical expertise to turn the plan into a working lighthouse example for the sector.

This course is designed to teach participants:

• Supports organisations to move from AI curiosity to a clear, actionable plan for leadership or board approval.
• Participants identify a real organisational challenge, select one priority AI use case and build a proposal around it.
• Covers opportunity identification, solution design, AI governance, Microsoft AI tools, leadership engagement and pitching for support.
• Helps organisations address data, privacy, risk and governance requirements relevant to the Australian not-for-profit sector.