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Quick Favor Please! Take the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Survey

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This year’s questions delve into how donors prefer to give to their favorite causes and will reveal the impact of social media, emerging trends (such as cryptocurrency, Amazon Alexa, gaming for good), and the role of crowdfunding, peer-to-peer fundraising, #GivingTuesday, and volunteerism in individual giving worldwide.

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AI for Fundraising Today: Voice Activated Fundraising & Chat Bots for Giving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” Think Alexa, Facebook Messenger Bots and other Chat Bots, etc. The process of anticipating questions from audience segments and responses was useful in and of itself. This summer Communities in Schools is using Alexa to encourage donors to donate a backpack full of school supplies to students in need.

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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Join online fundraising communities and ask lots of questions and monitor for great ideas. For example, accepting gifts of stock by opening a brokerage account, accepting Venmo donations, accepting cryptocurrency , and accepting donations from Alexa (Amazon devices). Tell everyone in advance how far you’ll go for your charity.

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The Top 5 Fundraising Trends in 2020

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Despite their potential for large-scale impact, recent news and litigation around DAFs has many questioning their effectiveness and calling for greater transparency and regulation. Thankfully, 2020 promises to be a year of closely examining and better understanding this high-growth vehicle for good.

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AI with a Social Impact: The Top 5 Reasons Why Nonprofits Should Explore Chatbots

Tech Soup

From self-driving vehicles to Alexa, our lives are slowly transforming as a result of constantly changing and improving AI. Although AI may seem foreign to the nonprofit world, many nonprofits including Raheem.ai, UNICEF, and charity: water are taking advantage of AI in the form of chatbots.

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AI for Nonprofits and Social Good: Link Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How Cancer Research UK is Exploring AI and Voice Tech: This cancer charity in the UK has been testing chatbots, voice enabled devices, and natural language processing – looking at how those could be useful and where the impact lies.They piloted a chatbot on our fundraising pages to help answer the most common questions people had.

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What Chat-First Search Means for Nonprofits (Organic & Ad Grant Traffic)?

Whole Whale

This screenshot is from the Google Bard chat results for the same question (May 2023). IE if someone can make a donation to your charity through a chat interface because the AI assistant has access to the user’s wallet. Build content on very long-tail keywords and natural language questions. Begin planning for your chatbot.

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