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2024 holiday wish list: nonprofit edition

Candid

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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Small Business Starter Kit: Tools and Tips for New Entrepreneurs

GrantNews

In addition to a cash award, applicants receive access to mentoring, working spaces, and opportunity to participate in future competitions. Funding provides support and guidance to businesses in one of the following categories: healthcare, media and entertainment, technology, consumer products and services, or AI.

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Beyond efficiency: A human-first AI adoption strategy

Candid

When we first started researching the use of AI in nonprofit organizations, we described the key benefit of AI as the “dividend of time.” With many nonprofit workplaces taking up generative AI over the past year, what costs and benefits are staff seeing? Researchers have measured the time savings created by generative AI.

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5 AI Prompts in 5 Days

Grants4Good

What is the BEST way to embrace the incoming 100-foot wave called AI (or artificial intelligence)? I guarantee you’ll find something useful in the new AI technologies emerging such as ChatGPT, boodleAI, Grantable, and others. If you need a primer on AI, check out my blog on AI and ChatGPT: What is it and how do I use it? ]

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From Napkin to Narrative: How Program Design Powers Grant Success

Grant Professionals Association

Before AI, cloud-based platforms, and fancy grant management software, grant writing was a hands-on, paper-filled, finger-cramping journey. A great idea would emerge: a way to feed families, house veterans, mentor teen., That napkin? That’s the birthplace of some of the best nonprofit program designs.

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Practical Ways to Use AI in 2024

Grant Professionals Association

Fast forward three decades, and a similar sense of curiosity and caution surrounds artificial intelligence or AI. In my work with nonprofit organizations, I’ve found that while few are using AI, many are not -- citing lack of time and concerns about safety, privacy and ethics. Try this prompt in Google Bard: “Which U.S.

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Dear diary: My first date with AI

Tom Ahern

File under: "Artificial Intelligence and me" Dear Diary: My first date with AI ( Later that same night : Dear Diary, I'm definitely going on a second date!) Then I took AI out for a test drive (results shown below). Pros: AI is insanely fast. Entry-level AI costs your charity nothing. Color me: mildly skeptical.

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