Hello fundraising family my name is Eric. Oh,
I'm Kristy. That's Kristy she's, you know. Last week we provided you with a
broad overview of artificial intelligence and how it can help
nonprofit organizations. Now we're in part two. And there's a growing
interest in artificial intelligence and how it can help your organization.
This not only stems from the fact that everyone sees that AI is infusing itself
into all aspects of our lives and realities, but because nonprofits are
often very small and limited and resources. So, as this technology becomes
more readily available how can it help you? Because, you might be a small
nonprofit but have big ideas.
As an example on how AI can help your small nonprofit: two years ago a company
named gravity helped the cure Alzheimer's fund with a crew of only
three people increase their profits by 49 percent and raise almost two million dollars.
AI did that for a non-profit with three people. So, today we have four ways that
AI can help your nonprofit. Number one, chatbots.
One of the simplest and least expensive ways to use AI is with chatbots. You've
probably already used a chatbot or have experience working with one before. You didn't
even realize it, sneaky chatbots. They're most commonly
used for when people contact an organization via phone or text to answer
questions. This helps free up the team to focus on
more critical and specialized work. Chatbots produce intelligent automated
responses to questions that your users may have for your organization. You might
have already experienced this with Facebook chat. You have those chatbots that come
up whenever you have questions for Facebook. You say answer these questions
yes or no, and then it comes up with a response and an answer for them without
using any of their staffs resources. Number two, reminders. This is probably
one of the most important things because a calendar across a group of people is
really hard thing to organize. AI is now being used to help increase the
productivity of most nonprofits not only by organizing their calendars, but also
by organizing the way they talk to each other. For example, our company Funds2Orgs,
uses Slack. We utilize Slack to leave us daily reminders, to set up
meetings and to communicate all together in one group. It also can be helpful
because if a meeting has to be changed or moved up or down in time it'll
automatically pop up on everybody that's using AI and remind them that hey it's
not four o'clock today is three o'clock so you don't miss important meetings.
Number three, programs (programs). In the animal welfare sector, PAWS is using
artificial intelligence and machine learning based on game theory and
computer science to inform park rangers of critical information and help to
prevent poaching. And in our last video we've mentioned a program that the New
York City crisis text line was using in order to help them. They were analyzing
over 65 million texts using AI to help get critical help to where it was needed.
Number four, analytic and organization strategy. The uses of artificial
intelligence in the nonprofit sector are profound but one of the most crucial
functions it has for your nonprofit is how to arrange this
fundraising dollars. These analytic tools that AI helps provide can provide you
with deep analysis of information you might not even realize you're missing
and can help you to reach out the sectors and places where you might not
have thought of reaching out to before. And you can also help provide additional
support and help minimize human error with data entry and database use. It can
also help with everything from meetings, to analyzing where your fundraising
dollars have come from before in the past and help you to find out where to
get them in the future, Also, did you know that AI can help you with your
note-taking process? One of the most difficult things to do during meetings
with nonprofits is organizing all the notes and what everybody said and with
programs like Voicea and Aloe, you can take the note-taking process away from
the people in your meetings and have them focus on what you're doing. And
we'll talk about these things more in the future videos so it make sure you click
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my name's Kristy. My name's Eric. And we'll see you guys next time. Bye. The number. The number
one. Chatbots are one of the most. (inaudible). SHOE DRIVE FUNDRAISER!
(Inaudible). And help them. I had it! Funds2Orgs. No! Okay. Why'd you yell at yourself? NO! AI Is... I don't know what I'm saying. Give me a second.
Okay. Hold on. Mhhhmmmmm. I lost it there at the end. One more time (inaudible). I almost lost it there at the end. Phew!