Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosted by Co-Act, a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. The workshop was focused on personal resilience and self-care based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit and was part of a series of workshops on resilience. Co-Act is a unique organization, a hub for accelerating collaborative action in Southeast Michigan’s nonprofit community. Their space is designed for local nonprofits to connect, share ideas and develop solutions together. They … [Read more...]
Will Artificial Intelligence Augment Nonprofit Staff or Replace?
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, bots, and other automation technologies offer many benefits to nonprofit professionals because it can perform basic and mundane tasks. As a result, it frees up staff time to focus on higher value activities. Artificial Intelligence can help nonprofits do more with less staff time, including the tasks described below. Fundraising & Marketing streamlined supporter & donor communications improved donor acquisition & prospecting greater … [Read more...]
Tips & Tools To Appreciate Your Nonprofit Staff and Build A Culture of Resilience
As part of my work with nonprofit organizations to help them build a culture of resilience that I wrote about in the Happy Healthy Nonprofit, I have facilitated retreats where staff brainstorm ideas and identify simple ways that they can make working at their organization more enjoyable. Two important aspects of a culture of resilience are friendship and feelings. Do people genuinely like each other? Do they feel appreciated? These are the conversations I've been facilitating at nonprofit … [Read more...]
Nonprofits Are Adding Bots to their Social Media Teams
There are many chat bot authoring platforms that make it easy for anyone to create a bot without requiring the technical expertise in natural language programming. While easy to set up, designing an effective bot for a nonprofit from scratch can be daunting. Direct Relief, a humanitarian aid organization, and its Direct Relief and its bot builder, Mind Heros, have open-sourced their model. It’s available for free to other nonprofits through BotsForCharity.com. Direct Relief, a humanitarian aid … [Read more...]
New E-Book: #AI4Good – Nonprofit Trends and Use Salesforce.Org Cases
Salesforce.Org recently published an e-book, AI for Good: Nonprofit Trends & Use Cases. It is a good primer for nonprofits (non-techies) who want to understand what the heck AI is and how it might be useful to their nonprofit. Just a few insights: AI is already part of your life, although it might be invisible to the end user. AI makes your daily experience smarter, by embedding predictive analysis into everyday apps. For example, Facebook has been using AI with facial recognition to … [Read more...]
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