Blackbaud

JANUARY 30, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) fundraising may seem like no more than the newest philanthropy buzzword. If your nonprofit is ready to dive deeper into the world of AI fundraising to boost donor engagement with your mission, this is the place to start! You may be most familiar with generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Bard, and DALL-E.

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Grants4Good

MAY 30, 2023

Fast forward almost 30 years later and the questions are the same, this time referring to AI or artificial intelligence, and ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a large language model (LLM) trained by OpenAI that can understand and respond to human language. The best way to learn about ChatGPT is to start using it! Simple, right?

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Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Amid all the talk about generative AI, fundraisers, especially grantwriters, may be asking themselves: Am I out of a job?  Will I be replaced by ChatGPT? In fact, generative AI has been known to be trained on biased information. You are responsible for ensuring that the terms used in your writing are sensitive and appropriate.

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Blackbaud

MARCH 11, 2024

You can barely go a day without hearing about ChatGPT or new AI tools, and for good reason—it’s reshaping our world and how we work in countless ways. The social sector and major gift fundraising are no exception. The Benefits of AI to Major Gift Fundraisers Fundraising is an industry that faces high stress and burnout.

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Critical Fundraising

JULY 10, 2024

First, it permits us, as nonprofit professionals, to focus on those things that we are already experts on, such as fundraising or programme delivery, and deprioritise talk about ethics, an area where few of us consider ourselves experts. At conferences, panels buzz with emerging experts advocating for responsibility in AI deployment.

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 3, 2024

To get started, open an account on any online platform such as ChatGPT or Google Bard, both of which have free versions. Try this prompt in ChatGPT: “Write a one-page letter of inquiry to the [name of foundation] to request $20,000 for the [name of your organization]. Question: How do you use generative AI in your work?

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Candid

AUGUST 30, 2023

I’m often invited to speak with organizations about the latest fundraising and nonprofit trends. The first is to share my view on some of the latest fundraising and nonprofit trends. While I am happy to share my perspective, trends are, by nature, always changing and have varying impacts depending on your nonprofit’s function.

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2023

As a nonprofit professional, you’ll be thrilled to know that AI is your new secret weapon for elevating your operations, fundraising, and outreach efforts. A Different Kind of Chatbot: ChatGPT Lately, there’s been a lot of hype around ChatGPT. This is where ChatGPT comes in. Pricing: ChatGPT is currently free to use.

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Strategic Grants

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The article ’15 learnings we’re sharing from 15 years of working with grant-seekers and fund ers’ by the Strategic Grants team first appeared in the Winter 2024 edition of the F&P (Fundraising & Philanthropy) magazine. Fundraisers are braver and bolder than ever. Not all AI tools are created equally.

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Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

But generative AI tools like chatGPT have different use cases from the predictive intelligence we’re exploring here as a component of your nonprofit’s technology strategy. Maybe you have a particular type of fundraising that just doesn’t perform the way you expect. How Will AI Help Your Team? Do you want a 3% increase in conversions?

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The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 27, 2024

Alex was designed as an autonomous fundraiser, independently managing a portfolio of donors. But these new and quickly developing technologies bring to the forefront many questions about the impact of AI on fundraising and the human relationships at the foundation of philanthropy. Is AI Technology Good For Fundraising?

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Candid

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

No longer an abstract concept, many nonprofit staff are experiencing the “dividend of time” as they adopt tools such as Copilot and ChatGPT for scheduling and managing meetings, processing email, writing drafts, summarizing long reports, analyzing data, and creating efficiencies in other common workflows. Investing in “soft skills.”

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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 1, 2024

As a busy fundraiser, I kept putting off learning about AI. To date, I’ve tried a variety of AI tools including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Anthropic’ s Claude. As with a human assistant, training and feedback are essential. This may produce fear of dire outcomes – such as, “there’s no more need for us”.

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Grants4Good

JUNE 17, 2023

If you need a primer on AI, check out my blog on AI and ChatGPT: What is it and how do I use it? These models, which are trained on vast amounts of written content, from which they derive predictive algorithms, are generating outputs based on probability , not by looking through the training data and “copying and pasting” content.

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DoJiggy

MARCH 18, 2024

Within the nonprofit realm, AI is emerging as a groundbreaking tool poised to revolutionize traditional fundraising strategies. The issue for most nonprofits looking to be early adopters is how nonprofits can use AI in fundraising (and elsewhere). Let’s begin!

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Selfish Giving

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How to train ChatGPT to write in your brand’s tone of voice. This annual bar crawl of tens of thousands of revelers dressed as Santa Claus claims to be a fundraiser for charity. Every year, the social impact agency Public takes its holiday gift-giving budget and puts it to good use for a social issue in the world.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 21, 2023

However, with the rise of ChatGPT in early 2023, there has been more buzz surrounding AI than ever before, especially in the nonprofit sector. Amidst all of this confusing discourse, nonprofits are looking for ways to keep up with new technological trends, maintain trust with their communities, and fundraise more effectively.

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Tom Ahern

JULY 6, 2023

It's well-trained, too. in which the super-talented Steven Screen asks Artificial Intelligence to write a fundraising appeal at a certain grade level, to a certain word count. Most fundraisers don't go to journalism school (have met two exceptions in 30 years). Fundraisers tend to under-appreciate the immense power of headlines.

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Qgiv

MARCH 26, 2024

By tapping into the plethora of free resources, your team can better prepare for your fundraising campaigns to raise more money and more awareness for your cause. These resources often offer great advice so you can create a first-rate fundraising strategy. Optimized fundraising. Enriched knowledge. Enhanced outreach.

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Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

These lessons still apply, according to ChatGPT Engage your audience. You'll raise more money if you vary your Facebook fundraising messages. Director of Corporate Partnerships, Smile Train , NYC ($100k - $120k) 4. Read it with this article: In national DEI dismantle, corporate charity efforts could be next. No baby animals?

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