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What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know About Amazon Alexa

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Amazon Alexa is the digital assistant software that empowers Amazon’s smart speaker series, the Amazon Echo. Most than just a digital assistant, Amazon Alexa is evolving into software that empowers and proliferates the Internet of Things. In addition: 1) Amazon Alexa has 82% of the smart speaker market share.

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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. Reports on nonprofits that have incorporated smart speakers as a giving channel are few. 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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The Top 5 Fundraising Trends in 2020

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In the same report, respondents ranked paid time off and paid family leave above salary when considering the most important employee benefits. 55% reported often feeling unappreciated. Big Results for Nonprofits That Embrace Flexible Work Environments. 30% said they planned to leave fundraising altogether.

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Artificial Intelligence for Government

Forum One

Some of these include: Writing emails, reports and memos – There are several AI writing assistants that have been mediocre at helping to write. While careful users still need to review and edit the writing, it will soon be a game-changer in terms of helping to draft emails, write memos, and generate reports.

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How to avoid being solely an ATM machine on the nonprofit board on which you serve

BoardAssist

Example: Alexa joined a board where she was asked to commit “something personally significant.” Alexa was the only member of the board who earned more than $60,000 a year. At the end of the year when the budget gap was roughly $100,000, the rest of the board wanted Alexa to make up the difference. Join a board!

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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Be familiar with the organization’s case for support, annual reports, theory of change, and other collateral materials. For example, accepting gifts of stock by opening a brokerage account, accepting Venmo donations, accepting cryptocurrency , and accepting donations from Alexa (Amazon devices). Then help implement these tools.