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Secrets to using AI in fundraising 💰

🤔 How to implement AI in fundraising, OpenAI's new Red Teaming Network, and last day to enter our giveaway!

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Everyday AI
September 20, 2023

Outsmart The Future

Today in Everyday AI
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🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: AI can be a valuable asset when fundraising. But how can you balance using AI and keeping trust with stakeholders? We got you covered. Give it a listen.

🕵️‍♂️ Fresh Finds: An AI-powered executive email assistant, tools that help you understand why your AI model is hallucinating, and breakfast made by Toyota bots? Read on for Fresh Finds.

🗞 Byte Sized Daily AI News: OpenAI's new Red Teaming Network, DeepMind's AlphaMissense predicts gene mutations and Intel’s new AI chip processor. For that and more, read on for Byte Sized News.

🚀 AI In 5: Tired of using umpteen AI apps? Us too. Is there one app to rule them all? See if so here

🏆 Digital Drops Giveaway: Tick tock. Last day! Go enter. Do you have TWO friends that could benefit from Everyday AI? If you refer them today, that would put you into the winning Top 8 spots!

🧠 Learn & Leveraging AI: So how can you take advantage of AI and implement it in your fundraising? Keep reading for that!

↩️ Don’t miss out: Did you miss our last newsletter? We talked about the future of product management, Google Bard getting some big updates, and the best ChatGPT internet plugin!
Check it here!

AI in Fundraising:
Building Trust with Stakeholders 🤝

AI can be a HUGE asset in fundraising. There’s so much manual work that goes into the process that can easily be done by AI.

But how can you use it effectively and confidently with your stakeholders?

Anne Murphy, CEO of Empowered Fundraiser Consulting and Coaching, joins us to explore the various ways AI can revolutionize fundraising for nonprofits and non-government agencies, from streamlining event planning to simplifying grant writing.

Join the conversation and ask Anne and Jordan any questions about AI and fundraising here.

Also on the pod today:

• Balancing AI and stakeholder trust 🤸
• Tailoring AI to different types of nonprofits 🔀
• The future of AI in fundraising 🤔

It’ll be worth your 27 minutes:

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Thursday, September 21st at 7:30 am CST ⬇️

Here’s our favorite AI finds from across the web:

New AI Tool Spotlight – Cardinal is an AI product backlog that pulls customer feedback, CRM data, and task management issues, FocusDoro is a Pomodoro timer with AI built in, and Shortwave is your AI-powered executive email assistant.

Money in AI – Corti, an AI co-pilot designed to assist healthcare clinicians, has successfully raised a whopping $60 million.

Business of AI - Galileo, an AI startup, is offering new tools that help you understand why your AI model is hallucinating. 

Fun and Weird – Ah yes. A tasty breakfast made by…Toyota? Toyota Research Institute (TRI) used generative AI to teach robots how to make breakfast.

Read This – An ex-Googler is looking to reinvent vaccines with AI.

1. OpenAI's Red Teaming Network🛡️

OpenAI is taking AI safety to the next level with its new "Red Teaming Network." This initiative aims to identify and address potential risks in AI systems by inviting external experts to challenge and test them. It's a proactive move by OpenAI to ensure that their AI models are robust and secure. Find out more here

2. DeepMind's AlphaMissense Predicts Gene Mutations 🧬

DeepMind is back with another groundbreaking tool: AlphaMissense. This AI model is designed to predict potentially disease-causing gene mutations, offering a new frontier in medical research. By identifying these mutations, it could pave the way for early interventions and treatments. Discover the potential of AlphaMissense.

3. Telling AI "Deep Breath" Boosts Math Scores 🧘‍♂️

A recent study has unveiled a quirky AI trick: telling an AI model to "take a deep breath" surprisingly improved its math-solving abilities. This unconventional method led to a significant boost in the model's performance, showcasing the unpredictable nature of AI. Dive into the study.

4. OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Models Get an Upgrade, GPT-4 is next 💡

You can now fine-tune not one, but three GPT-3.5 models. And if that wasn't enough, there's more good news: GPT-4 is set to follow this fall. Get the lowdown on these exciting developments and what they mean for the AI community.

5. Intel's Meteor Lake Processor Blasts Off with New AI Tech 🚀

Intel is making waves with the unveiling of its "Meteor Lake" processor, alongside a slew of other cutting-edge AI technologies. This next-gen processor is set to redefine performance standards and push the boundaries of what's possible in computing. Intel's commitment to innovation is evident, as they continue to lead the charge in merging AI with advanced hardware.

Using AI to learn from videos faster 🧠

Tired of logging into like 13 (or 130) different GenAI apps? Us too.

Maybe Microsoft Copilot will change that. But while we wait, maybe Yarnit could be the all-in-one GenAI tool we’ve been waiting for.

Will it be any good? Find out in AI in 5.

A couple hours left to win something (we think) is craaaaazy valuable.

In case you missed it last Friday….you’re in luck. Our contest timezone got all screwed up, so we decided to extend the contest for a couple of days.

We’re celebrating 100 episodes of Everyday AI by giving away 10 AI strategy consults!

Most companies would charge you $2K-$20K for this. (Some would charge more. lol)

We’re giving it away. No cost. Multiple meetings with our team, and we’ll build an outline on how you can implement GenAI.

How it works:

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You and your referrals will need to confirm your email addresses. The 8 participants with the most successful referrals will automatically win! The other 2 giveaway winners will be chosen at random.

So everyone has a chance to win!

🤷‍♂️ What’s Going On and Why It Matters:

How can nonprofits actually use Generative AI?

As we learned today, there’s no shortage of ways.

Anne Murphy, the CEO of Empowered Fundraiser Consulting and Coaching gave us the real scoop.

And here’s the real talk: nonprofits don’t have to be archaic and slow-moving. We know the stereotypes all too well, as Jordan spent a decade in the NPO space.

Anne showed us how nonprofits can not only tap into the DOPE potential of GenAI, but she outlined something even more important: how to keep stakeholder trust while using AI.

If that’s your space, you’ll wanna go re-watch today’s stream and drop a question for Anne.

And even if nonprofits aren’t your cup of tea, there’s still plenty of insights you can take from today’s show.

With generative AI, nonprofits (and other companies!) can streamline collaboration, making event planning smoother and more efficient. From event strategy to invitation crunching, AI can help manage all the intricate details.

Or, you can take the old, archaic, slow route. Up to y’all.

But if you’re ready for the fast(er) lane, let’s zoooooooom.

🦾How You Can Leverage:

Nonprofits and cutting-edge tech don’t historically jive.

But screw that. Let’s get cutting edge shorties.

And Anne Murphy took us into the fundraising future, sprinkled in with data security and responsibility.

If you’re ready to step up your nonprofit’s game and tap into fundraising + AI secrets, we got you.

Here’s your 1-2-3:

1 – Streamline collaboration org-wide 👥

Wait. That has nothing to do with fundraising!!

OK. So you want to waste time or nah? If you want to free time and focus on fundraising, kick some of those more mundane and manual tasks to the curb.

Anne dropped some truth bombs on all the other areas that Generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Google Bard (and the forthcoming Microsoft Copilot!) to streamline collaboration in every inch of your org.

Try this:
Anne normally has some paid resources, but she’s giving it to us here. Go check out her great guide (which she made free for EverydAIers!) on ChatGPT basics for nonprofit pros. Or, check out this Impact Report for more empowered fundraising.

2 – Use AI & keep stakeholder trust 🤝

Yeah, you can do both.

Making sure to keep your donor information (and other private or confidential info!) secure. In general, if you have Personally Identifiable Information from donors or other stakeholders, never upload that into a large language model or other GenAI systems.

But, there’s still plenty of data and use-cases for LLMs that will improve fundraising. Like… you really wanna spend 10 hours getting that RFP from 3 pages of notes to a 20 page application? Or build that grant from scratch? (Grossyuckbarf) Just ChatGPT that sucker! (Minus PII, of course!)

Try this:
Anne dropped a great, free resource: FundraisingAI. She mentioned a free conference on AI and fundraising. So if you’re still reading this, that might be a resource worth checking out.

3 – Optimize donor outreach 💰

More money. No problems.

Anne recommended sprinkling in some AI magic in your fundraising campaigns. Especially for larger orgs drowning in a sea of data. You can have your team spend days diving in. Or hire expensive consultants. Or. Or……

Try this: 
Anne mentioned ChatGPT’s Advanced Data Analysis mode, formerly called Code Interpreter. (We teach this in our free Prime, Prompt, Polish course. Have you really not replied PPP to our emails before for access?!)

When using ChatGPT’s ADA mode, remember not to upload confidential info or any PII. But once you scrub your data clean of that, sit back and watch ChatGPT do all the crunching, like in this example.

Now This …

Remember when Doug Thompson came on the Everyday AI show? It was an awesome episode. So awesome, in fact, that I returned the favor and (hopefully) dropped a few storytelling gems on his amazing podcast. Go listen!

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