The Chronicle of Philanthropy

JUNE 23, 2025

Grant Guardian, a free AI tool developed by the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, offers program officers insights into organizations’ finances. Prest Getty Images Program officers at more than 130 grant makers are using a new artificial intelligence tool to assess the financial health of prospective grantee organizations.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MAY 1, 2025

As you can imagine, AI and its impact on grant writing, our tools, and our general approach to our work have been a hot topic over the past few years. because it gives you three slightly different perspectives on the ethical dos and don’ts that AI called out on its own behalf, and also some of the innovation items for consideration.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Now were introducing AI tools to recommend new funders and funding opportunities personalized to your needs, eliminating work that might have taken hours and surfacing opportunities fundraisers might not have discovered on their own to help fundraisers find what they need even more quickly and efficiently.

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Tony Martignetti

MAY 26, 2025

Jason Shim & Meico Marquette Whitlock:Healthier Productivity From AI Our annual duo returns with tips and resources to make your use of artificial intelligence better for you. They also go beyond AI with many smartphone strategies, inbox management, and Meico shares his shutdown ritual for bedtime.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

MARCH 10, 2025

A new study finds just 36 percent of major foundations feel confident assessing the technical feasibility of AI proposals, raising concerns about philanthropy's response to a rapidly evolving landscape.

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Candid

APRIL 8, 2025

Its based on work weve done coaching smaller nonprofits and engaging with nonprofits on our platform, and incorporates the smart, strategic use of AI. This is no longer true; using AI, we can make every donor feel like a million bucks. This is no longer true; using AI, we can make every donor feel like a million bucks.

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Future Fundraising Now

MARCH 11, 2025

These days, with free AI applications that can spit out an essay on any topic in seconds, I can only imagine how much more challenging it must be to prevent student cheating on papers. If someone else — a human or an AI — writes your paper, you dont learn much. So is it cheating for you or I to use AI to write fundraising?

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Hands-On Fundraising

APRIL 30, 2024

AI is the new kid on the block. Just sort of repeated […] The post Don’t let the AI robots steal your humanity appeared first on Hands-On Fundraising. You know, the one with rich parents. Who has the best toys. You were eager to play. But you had to wait for an invitation, of course. Then the big day arrived!

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Tony Martignetti

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Amy Sample Ward: AI, Organizational & Personal Artificial Intelligence is ubiquitous, so here’s another conversation about its impacts on the nonprofit and human levels. Amy … Continue reading Nonprofit Radio for September 30, 2024: AI, Organizational & Personal →

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Candid

JUNE 26, 2025

Many in the sector are watching the AI revolution with a mix of curiosity and caution—intrigued by its promise but underwhelmed by the lack of practical tools and proven use cases. The question is: Why hasn’t the “AI moment” arrived to transform grantmaking, and what will it take to unlock AI’s deep potential in philanthropy?

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Clairification

MAY 18, 2023

This blew my mind: Seth Godin wrote people are really making good use of the free AI on his blog – and so far, it’s pretty trustworthy. Clairity Click-it, Your Nonprofit Ticket to… The post AI Yay Yay Clairity Click-it: Nonprofit Links + Free Resources appeared first on Clairification. I gave it a try, and these were the results.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 16, 2025

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Hands-On Fundraising

APRIL 8, 2025

Dont automate your communication Every day it seems theres another shiny new toy, based on AI, to make fundraising faster and easier. Its surely tempting for an overworked nonprofit staffer with scary-big goals to hit.

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Grant Writer Team

MAY 29, 2025

Artificial Intelligence, also known as AI, helps us with tasks that normally require a human’s full attention to impart their knowledge. Research shows that increased use of AI will continue. In truth, most of us are already using AI daily. Learn how AI-based tools like ChatGPT can help promote your nonprofit!

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Future Fundraising Now

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

They fed it a story from their work, along with some other prompts, and the AI took its usual 5 seconds or so to write an appeal. The AI appeal was terrible. It was a pretty typical example of AI appeal writing. How could they miss so many glaring problems with the AI appeal? AI copy is. Its going to work great!

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 8, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming grant writing across industries, particularly for technology-driven companies, drug developers, energy innovators, defense contractors, and health systems. Proposal Drafting: AI can create drafts tailored to specific funding agencies, improving alignment with solicitation requirements.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Enter AI-powered smart search tools, which are streamlining how nonprofits and academics discover and apply for grants. At the heart of smart search is semantic search—AI that goes beyond simple keyword matching. With the increasing use of AI, data privacy concerns are natural and warranted. Why embrace AI-powered smart search?

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 27, 2025

The real promise of artificial intelligence — particularly agentic AI — is not just efficiency, but the removal of barriers that slow down fundraising, service delivery and impact measurement. This is where agentic AI can help. Agentic AI doesn’t magically solve this, but it can help. setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

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The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 7, 2025

Moreover, Artificial Intelligence (AI) can make the process more complex — while also presenting unique opportunities. To use AI effectively, a proposal team must set ground rules for ethical deployment and ensure that AI serves as a tool, not a team member. However, AI can provide a high-level foundation.

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Tony Martignetti

MAY 4, 2025

Kim Snyder & Shauna Dillavou: PII In The Age Of AI Artificial Intelligence and big data have transformed privacy risks by enabling malicious, targeted communications to your team that seem authentic because they contain highly accurate information.

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GrantNews

JANUARY 2, 2025

While it is no surprise that trends are leaning towards AI and tech tools, you may be surprised to see how nonprofits might use AI. For example, AI can help a team build new and creative ways to connect donors and ensure they feel appreciated. In truth, most of us are already using AI on a daily basis.

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Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

AI is transforming industries, and the nonprofit sector is no exception. For resource-strapped organizations, AI holds enormous promise. But AI adoption comes with challenges. The inequity in AI adoption today has parallels to the early days of seat belt installation in cars.

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Blackbaud

MAY 7, 2025

Consider the use of AI! Even smaller nonprofits are using AI tools to raise more money from major gift donors. Machine learning is one component under the larger AI umbrella. Targeting the right ask : AI-driven tools identify the target ask amount, based on wealth and inclination to give. Lets walk through the steps.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

But where do nonprofits stand today in adopting AI? The 2025 AI Benchmark Report a collaboration between TechSoup and Tapp Network dives into these questions and more. And how can your organization use these tools to grow its impact?

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Millionaire Grant Lady

JANUARY 29, 2025

Just as you shouldnt use AI to write your grant applications , you shouldnt use Google or AI to search for opportunities. While these tools have their shortcomings and require practice to navigate successfully, databases provide much higher quality results when compared to Google or AI search tools.

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Gail Perry Group

JULY 24, 2024

AI for Nonprofits: Crafting Compelling Appeal Letters with AI Are you ready to set up a year-end fundraising campaign that will engage donors and drive donations to your organization? Here is a shortcut we strongly recommend: give our AI appeal letter template a try. Why use AI to Write Appeal Letters?

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Candid

DECEMBER 24, 2024

And if the paperwork requirements cant be reduced, can nonprofits use generative AI for grant writing? Where do foundations stand on AI-generated grant proposals? To bot or not to bot: Using generative AI in grantwriting. To bot or not to bot: Using generative AI in grantwriting. The responses may surprise you.

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Blackbaud

JUNE 19, 2025

These regional reports explore the changing landscape of nonprofit fundraising in each area and offer a thorough overview of the social impact sector in 2025, aiding nonprofits and education providers to evaluate their performance in the AI era. Predictive AI use is still more limited globally.

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Blackbaud

JANUARY 14, 2025

You Want to Get the Most from AI Innovation AI has seemingly limitless potential to revolutionize the fundraising process by prescribing the actions with the most impact for your fundraisers. The kind of large, clean data sets AI systems require has historically been a point of weakness for nonprofit organizations.

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Candid

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Fundraising and AI Nonprofit fundraising in an election year is especially tough. To bot or not to bot: Using generative AI in grantwriting by David Holmes and Kristin Hanlin, Candid. Theres no doubt that the impact of generative AI was top of mind for many across all sectors, but for nonprofit fundraisers, that is the question.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 19, 2025

Here's a five-step breakdown for activating AI at your nonprofit. Don't know where to start when it comes to artificial intelligence?

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Candid

OCTOBER 17, 2024

As generative AI tools like ChatGPT become increasingly widely available, the need to ensure they’re used safely and ethically also becomes ever more urgent. While AI technology can create efficiencies for cash-strapped nonprofits, we need to make sure the way we use AI is aligned with our missions to do good.

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Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Moreover, the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) now introduces extra layers of difficulty to such collaborations — along with some exciting opportunities. To use AI effectively, a proposal team must set ground rules for ethical deployment and ensure that AI serves as a tool, not a team member. If so, how?

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Tom Ahern

JANUARY 30, 2025

File under: An "A-level" check list according to AI Top 10 fundraising writing best practices (circa 2025 and remarkably useful) What are the top 10 fundraising writing best practices? Above is the prompt submitted to artificial intelligence (AI) by some ever-curious U.S. AI's verbatim, nearly instant response? Cite experts."

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Gail Perry Group

JANUARY 16, 2025

AI is Changing the Game Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the way nonprofits understand and engage with donors. We use AI to find high-value gift prospects and help tailor cultivation experiences that they will enjoy. But heres the thingdonors are skeptical of AI-generated content. Takeaway: Be careful.

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Capital Campaign Pro

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

AI has quickly become a helpful resource for nonprofits, assisting with data analysis, drafting proposals, and generating fundraising messages. While these benefits can streamline processes, AI can’t replace the judgment and experience that human consultants offer during a capital campaign.

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Candid

JANUARY 13, 2025

Now were pairing these knowledge sources with AI tools to answer your questions more holistically and guide you to the most essential information more effectively. Were excited to announce an early version of Candids AI assistant, now available to try out on Candid labs. Why an AI assistant?

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