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Five Critical Steps for Successful User Adoption

Association Analytics

Making technology or process changes in the workplace is hard work. And the biggest differentiator between success and failure is a user adoption plan. User adoption is the experience employees go through when using new technology or following new processes with existing technology. It takes time. It takes effort.

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Beyond efficiency: A human-first AI adoption strategy

Candid

No longer an abstract concept, many nonprofit staff are experiencing the “dividend of time” as they adopt tools such as Copilot and ChatGPT for scheduling and managing meetings, processing email, writing drafts, summarizing long reports, analyzing data, and creating efficiencies in other common workflows. Investing in “soft skills.”

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Two years later: how our fundraising strategy changed overnight 

Candid

We had no time to plan, so we got creative and looked for alternative revenue sources. While the pandemic presented LOHR with many challenges, it pushed us to revisit our fundraising strategy and create a new approach that we plan to adopt permanently. Our grants manager, Dawn, was determined to maintain operations. Lessons learned .

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Highlights from Candid’s most popular philanthropic resources in 2023?

Candid

It outlines 10 core principles for philanthropy serving organizations (PSOs) to enhance their impact and contribute to broader systems change. To build trust and prioritize community voices, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Community Fund adopted a participatory grantmaking practice in 2021 and 2022.

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Youth community service: Belonging, reciprocity, and agency 

Candid

To illustrate, Cilente Skendall shared that one activity not considered “service” by most respondents was “alternative breaks”—short trips designed to provide students with “service immersion experiences.” Funding lines don’t necessarily have to change to support service,” he said.

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9 Socially-Distant Donor Engagement Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Your established experience in the nonprofit industry and your ability to adapt to ever-changing circumstances have gotten you this far. A solution many adopted in 2020 is the small dollar donation campaign. Adopt tried-and-true best practices for major donor engagement. Not to worry.

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Putting the AI in Education: Stepping Toward Generative Artificial Intelligences 

sgEngage

But things forever changed when OpenAI released version 3.5 Generative AIs went from entertaining but ultimately not very useful to possessing, and the change happened overnight.  Imagine being able to ask your AI to review all your saved topics and suggest alternatives and improvements based on related assessments and grades.