Pass IT On, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Your gift is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
San Antonio turns out veterans with discipline and graduates with tech skills into an industry that now automates the entry-level work they were trained for, and every employer asks the same question: what have you done with a real client, a real deadline and adult staff who did not have to listen to you? Pass IT On, Inc. (Texas Chapter) answers it. Our people run six-month engagements keeping AI in bounds for local nonprofits, then we train them to contract on their own and hire from our own graduates when funding lands. Not one shot at experience. As many as it takes. And they keep what they build. No contract to work off, no debt to us. A mobile unit takes the program to them.
We train community members in AI governance. And we give local organizations a scholarship to build it.
Pass IT On, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit social enterprise serving communities since 2015. Pass It On Texas is its San Antonio chapter. We have helped people with no technology background build real careers, and now we are doing it for AI governance.
Standing
501(c)(3)
Since 2015. Gifts are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Testing
Pearson VUE
Authorized Test Center with mobile delivery.
Reach
Texas
Cohorts run from Texas, serving Texas and national participants.
Outcome
Instructors
Volunteers who became instructors employers hire.
Who we are
1Workforce development
Your placement numbers are getting harder to hit. Few programs prepare people for AI adoption, and the few that do can’t show you who got hired. Your funders still expect the numbers.
Send your people here. They build AI governance skills that every industry adopting AI needs, not only the cyber jobs that require a clearance, and they leave with real client work to prove it. That’s an outcome you can report.
2Subject matter experts
You know what good governance looks like, and the next generation is learning it without you.
Guide a team through a real project for a San Antonio nonprofit in three-month cycles. Sharpen your AI governance skills alongside other experts while you do it.
3Donors
The program has trained people and a full kit of equipment, but nowhere to meet and no way to move it.
Your gift buys a home base and a mobile unit that put trained people in front of the students and nonprofits who need them. Tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
4Participants
Every application asks for experience, and no one will give you your first shot.
Start with 20 volunteer hours, interview for a competitive internship, and leave with six months of real client work that’s yours to keep.
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Our experience
Pass IT On, Inc. has earned close to $1 million in grants and awards and serves thousands of people every year through its Maryland headquarters. Pass It On Texas is its San Antonio chapter. Your gift is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
We have run cohorts from Texas for people across the state and the country. We have taken people with no IT skills and helped them land jobs in IT and cybersecurity. We have turned volunteers into teaching assistants and teaching assistants into instructors. We did it first with Microsoft Digital Literacy.
One of our Texas participants started as a volunteer. He became a teaching assistant, then an instructor. An employer recently called us to run his background check. They are hiring him full time to teach.
Pass IT On, Inc. (Texas Chapter) is expanding. Here is how you can help.
What we do
Governance, risk and compliance is a mouthful. Here is what it means. Set the rules for how your organization uses AI. Check that the rules are followed. Keep the proof.
AI will change who has a job. It will not change who is responsible. When an AI tool makes a bad call, no algorithm shows up in court. The person who runs the organization does. Every organization using AI needs someone who knows how to keep it in bounds, and because new risks show up every month, that job never goes away.
Bootcamps and workshops in cybersecurity, AI literacy and AI security awareness. Certification prep for Security+ and more. We are an official Pearson VUE testing partner with mobile delivery, and we run a peer review testing center, so people earn the credential instead of just studying for it.
We do not just train people. We train the people who will train others. Graduates who finish the pipeline can step into teaching assistant and instructor roles, and our next program takes that further: AI security awareness trainers who can brief a busy executive on the risks that matter to their industry, in writing and in the room.
Our priority program
A local nonprofit applies. If selected, we spend six months with them, at no cost, building AI governance they can stand behind: the rules for how they use AI, the checks that the rules are followed, and the proof.
Subject matter experts volunteer in three-month cycles, and each one owns a piece of the build. Deadlines, sprints, real deliverables. Students commit for six months and work alongside those experts on the same nonprofit engagement.
The nonprofit
Gets AI governance it could not afford to buy.
The expert
Gives three months to a real engagement, guides the interns' project work, sharpens their own AI governance skills, and trades notes with peers.
The student
Gets real experience, real mentors, and real relationships with the people who hire.
Who we serve
Each of you has your own way in.
Your placement numbers are getting harder to hit, and the cyber jobs your people trained for are few and often require a clearance. Send them here to build the skills every industry adopting AI needs: AI governance, project management and AI security awareness.
Partner with usYou have the fundamentals. You need real governance and project experience to get hired.
Apply as a studentYou have years in nonprofits, security, governance or law, and you want to give some of it back. Each project decides what expertise it needs, so we do not narrow the door.
Apply as an expertYour gift buys a home base and a mobile unit that carry the program’s equipment to students and nonprofits across Bexar County, including the edge-of-city schools that can’t get students to a testing center.
Donate to our 2026 fundraiserYou are using AI, or about to. You need governance you can stand behind, and it is not in the budget.
Apply for the scholarshipGet involved
20 hours of support to the nonprofit, in whatever capacity we need. This is where you decide if volunteerism is something you can execute.
Apply and interview. We choose. Interns get scholarships to trainings, access to audit security boot camps, certification testing fees, and hands-on, project-based learning and project management tasks under the guidance of subject matter experts. That last part is the heart of it: real client-facing experience, and you build team skills, soft skills, and confidence in helping people who know less than you.
Earned by finishing six months of the work. It runs like a part-time job with a part-time team, and it is not for everyone.
Graduation is not the end. We train you to work as a freelance contractor or as an employee, and we support you either way. When grants and funding open trainer positions, we fill them from our own people.
Graduation day. Six months in, certificate in hand.
Four doors
For a local nonprofit that wants six months of pro bono AI governance work.
Nonprofit applicationThree-month cycles on a real pro bono engagement for a local nonprofit that cannot afford this help. You work alongside the interns and guide their hands-on project work; that guidance is the heart of their training. In return you sharpen your own AI governance skills, trade notes with peers, and give back. Expertise in nonprofits, security, governance, or legal all counts, because each project decides what it needs.
SME applicationStart with 20 volunteer hours. Then apply and interview for a six-month internship: hands-on governance and project management work, with subject matter experts in your corner.
Volunteer and intern applicationHost a meeting room. In return, your organization gets AI governance work and AI security awareness training. Our Maryland headquarters started exactly this way.
How the exchange works
The mobile IT lab, packed and ready. It has nowhere to go.
The 2026 ask
What we have
What we lack
Right now the program has nowhere to meet and no way to move what it owns.
From online to in person
Our cohorts have run online. In 2026 we're moving to in-person, and your gift makes that move possible.
People pick up more by working alongside experienced practitioners than any screen can teach. They hear how experts talk to clients, work through problems and make decisions, and it rubs off.
Running a meeting, reading a room, handling a difficult client, presenting to a board. These are the skills employers ask about most, and they grow face to face.
Participants work with the mobile lab's server, switch and router, not just a screen.
Engagements run face to face, on real deadlines, with subject matter experts in the room.
Participants build working relationships with experts and with the people who hire.
Our Pearson VUE mobile delivery brings certification exams to the sites where participants already learn. Testing somewhere familiar takes the stress down and helps scores go up.
Local partners, employers and donors can see the work happening.
Where your gift goes
Your gift puts the mobile lab on the road: a vehicle to tow it, a trailer to carry it and serve as a mobile office, the modifications and insurance to run it, and a home base to work from. How far the build goes depends on what we raise, and every dollar goes to getting the program moving. Your gift is seed money, not a subscription. Once the pipeline is running, Pass It On Texas pays its own way through fee-based services and grants.
Smaller gifts
Every item on this list fills a real gap. If you would rather give the item than the money, we will take it. Gifts of money or items are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Equipment list total: about $14,658. This covers the trailer and equipment. The vehicle and home base are funded through your campaign gift and are not part of this total. Prices are estimates from retailer listings checked in October 2026, before tax and shipping. In-kind gifts of any item are welcome.
Decide
We serve our current partners for free. As our reputation grows, those services become fee-based and the program carries itself. Your gift is the bridge from here to there.
Questions, a site visit, or paperwork for your board: [email protected] or +1 (210) 448-9523.
Pass It On Texas is the San Antonio chapter of Pass IT On, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit social enterprise serving communities since 2015. Gifts are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
