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25+ Artificial Intelligence (AI) Marketing & Fundraising Statistics for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

These AI marketing and fundraising statistics can help your inspire your nonprofit to adopt the use of generative AI for marketing and predictive AI fundraising. To learn more about AI, visit our AI Hub for Nonprofits and earn our Certificate in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Marketing & Fundraising.

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Navigating Economic Uncertainty: Smart Tips for Small Nonprofits

Get Fully Funded

Economic uncertainty can feel like uncharted territory, especially for small nonprofits that operate on tight budgets and unwavering dedication to their missions. When issues like high prices, Federal deficits and spending, politics, and tariffs plague our daily lives, its hard to know what tomorrow will bring. The good news is that challenging times bring opportunities to plan smarter, strengthen strategies, and deepen your impact.

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43 Ways to Diversify Your Nonprofit Funding Sources

DonorPerfect

Sustainability isn’t just about doing more with less, its about doing more with more. A diverse funding portfolio ensures that your nonprofit organization can weather economic shifts, respond to urgent needs, and plan confidently for the future. If your fundraising strategy depends too heavily on one or two revenue streams, like annual events or grants, […] The post 43 Ways to Diversify Your Nonprofit Funding Sources appeared first on Nonprofit Technology & Fundraising Blogs.

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How to Prep for Summer Fundraising Without Burning Out

The Modern Nonprofit

Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes How to Prep for Summer Fundraising Without Burning Out Summer is just around the cornerand while it brings sunshine and community spirit, it can also bring a lot of stress for nonprofit leaders. Fundraising doesnt stop just because the pace of life slows down. In fact, planning for summer success often begins now , in May.

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A New Look At Running Grants & Programs: Why Use A System When You Have Excel?

Speaker: Gareth Webb & Phil Selley, Founding Partners at Intouch Business

For many nonprofit organizations and NGOs, managing grants and monitoring projects with spreadsheets and manual processes feels familiar—but is it holding your organization back? As funding requirements become more complex and stakeholder expectations for transparency grow, relying on outdated methods can lead to inefficiencies, missed opportunities, and compliance risks.

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An Overview of Healthcare Fundraising & 8 Effective Tactics 

Allegiance Group

The Pan-Mass Challenge is a bike-a-thon that raises more money for charity than any other single athletic fundraising event in the country. Held in Massachusetts the first weekend in August, the PMC raises funds for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, which provides adult and pediatric cancer treatment and research. The first Challenge in 1980 had just 32 riders and 10 volunteers, raising $10,200 in honor of founder Billy Starrs mother, who died of cancer.

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Crisis management: Why it matters for your organization

Charity Village

While the term crisis management can seem intimidating, it is actually a practice that can be critical, particularly for nonprofit and charitable organizations. Crisis management refers to an organization’s strategic process for responding to and recovering from critical events. Whether it be the loss of a major donor, the furnace failing in the middle of […] The post Crisis management: Why it matters for your organization appeared first on CharityVillage.

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5 Unmissable Funding & Fellowship Programs for College Founders

Medium Technology Section

From non-dilutive grants to mentorship-packed fellowships, the landscape is brimming with opportunities tailored for student innovators.

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Beyond Automation: How Associations Can Lead with Humanity in an AI World

.orgSource

The conversation around AI has shifted from speculation to reality almost overnight. What was once seen as a distant innovation is now reshaping the way we work, connect, and create. For associations organizations built on trust, expertise, and community the rise of AI isn’t just a question of adaptation. It’s a challenge of relevance.

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After back-to-back failures, SpaceX tests its fixes on the next Starship

Ars Technica

SpaceX fired six Raptor engines on the company's next Starship rocket Monday, clearing a major hurdle on the path to launch later this month on a high-stakes test flight to get the private rocket program back on track. Starship ignited its Raptor engines Monday morning on a test stand near SpaceX's Starbase launch facility in South Texas. The engine ran for approximately 60 seconds, and SpaceX confirmed the test-firing in a post on X : "Starship completed a long duration six-engine static fire a

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The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!

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Hackers Want Your Donor Data: How to Ensure Your Nonprofit Isn’t at Risk

NonProfit PRO

Nonprofits collect data names, mailing and email addresses, birth dates and more from donors. Here's how to keep that information secure.

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Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back

Futurism

Two years after partnering with OpenAI to automate marketing and customer service jobs, financial tech startup Klarna says it's longing for human connection again. Once gunning to be OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's " favorite guinea pig ," Klarna is now plotting a big recruitment drive after its AI customer service agents couldn't quite hack it. The buy-now-pay-later company had previously shredded its marketing contracts in 2023, followed by its customer service team in 2024, which it proudly began rep

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Going ‘AI-first’ appears to be backfiring on Klarna and Duolingo

Fast Company Tech

Artificial intelligence might be the future of the workplace, but companies that are trying to get a head start on that future are running into all sorts of problems. Klarna and Duloingo have been some of the poster children for the “AI-first” workplace. Two years ago, Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski announced he wanted his company to be the “favorite guinea pig” of OpenAI, instituting a hiring freeze and replacing as many workers as possible with AI systems.

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Judge admits nearly being persuaded by AI hallucinations in court filing

Ars Technica

A plaintiff's law firms were sanctioned and ordered to pay $31,100 after submitting fake AI citations that nearly ended up in a court ruling. Michael Wilner, a retired US magistrate judge serving as special master in US District Court for the Central District of California, admitted that he initially thought the citations were real and "almost" put them into an order.

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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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15 Tips for Building a Sustainable Major Donor Pipeline

NonProfit PRO

Here are 15 tips to help nonprofits seize the opportunity to establish a more robust donor pipeline and help donors understand the impact they can make with larger gifts.

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Why Elon Musk Is Furious and Publicly Raging at His Own AI Chatbot, Grok

Futurism

Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, thinks that The Atlantic and The BBC are credible, reputable sources for news and information. Which is funny, because Musk who's engaged in a years-long project to erode trust in legacy media organizations and even specific journalists doesn't. And now, he's furious at his own AI chatbot. The Musk-Grok tiff happened over the weekend, when a misinformation-spreading X-formerly-Twitter user @amuse posted an " article " about billionaire bogeymen (like George and Al

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Airbnb Is in Midlife Crisis Mode

Wired

CEO Brian Chesky is spending hundreds of millions to relaunch his travel company as an everything app. Fitness! Food! Microdermabrasion? A WIRED exclusive.

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Airbnb now offers Services like makeup, photography, catered meals

Mashable Tech

At a celebrity-packed Tuesday press event in Los Angeles, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky announced a refreshed app for the home rental site, new curated "Experiences," and the opportunity to book professional "Services." Chesky began the media event by highlighting the humble beginnings of the stalwart rental site, which started in 2007 when he offered up his own San Francisco apartment to travelers seeking a place to stay.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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Welcome to the age of paranoia as deepfakes and scams abound

Ars Technica

These days, when Nicole Yelland receives a meeting request from someone she doesnt already know, she conducts a multistep background check before deciding whether to accept. Yelland, who works in public relations for a Detroit-based nonprofit, says shell run the persons information through Spokeo, a personal data aggregator that she pays a monthly subscription fee to use.

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Anaconda launches an AI platform to become the GitHub of enterprise open-source development

Fast Company Tech

AI integration remains a top priority across enterprises worldwide, yet success remains elusive despite widespread enthusiasm and significant investment. An October 2024 study by Boston Consulting Group found that only 26% of companies have derived measurable business value from their AI initiatives. As a result, CEOs face mounting pressure to deliver tangible ROI, shifting focus from experimentation to real-world outcomes.

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GM’s New Battery Tech Could Be a Breakthrough for Affordable EVs

Wired

General Motors has cracked the chemistry of lower-cost, energy-dense electric vehicle batteries. Budget-conscious gasoline holdouts may soon have no excuse.

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NASA rover captures an aurora from Mars surface for the first time

Mashable Tech

NASA 's Perseverance rover has captured an aurora in the night sky for the first time from the Martian ground. Scientists have known for two decades that Mars ' skies have auroras, too, but these curtains of undulating light had only been detected in ultraviolet — light that is invisible to the naked eye — until now. All previous Martian auroras were observed from orbiters in space.

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How to Scale Recurring Giving for Sustainable Growth

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Is your organization ready to build a recurring giving program that not only sustains but also propels your mission forward? 🚀 In this new webinar with industry visionary Tim Sarrantonio, we’ll guide you through the critical steps to establishing and scaling a successful recurring giving program. Whether you’re starting fresh or enhancing an existing program, this session will provide the strategies you need to deepen donor relationships and secure long-term support!

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New attack can steal cryptocurrency by planting false memories in AI chatbots

Ars Technica

Imagine a world where AI-powered bots can buy or sell cryptocurrency, make investments, and execute software-defined contracts at the blink of an eye, depending on minute-to-minute currency prices, breaking news, or other market-moving events. Then imagine an adversary causing the bot to redirect payments to an account they control by doing nothing more than entering a few sentences into the bots prompt.

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Airbnb goes all in on everything but the ‘bnb’

Fast Company Tech

Since its last major redesign in 2022 , Airbnb has been all about the destination: staying in homes so unique or glamorousfrom McMansions with amazing pools to surrealist homes in a shoethat they might be worth a trip unto itself. But starting today, Airbnb is expanding its purview beyond homes. again. Its launching a new product called Airbnb Services, and redoubling on Airbnb Experiences (first launched in 2016).

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An $8.4 Billion Chinese Hub for Crypto Crime Is Incorporated in Colorado

Wired

Before a crackdown by Telegram, Xinbi Guarantee grew into one of the internets biggest markets for Chinese-speaking crypto scammers and money laundering. And all registered to a US address.

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Shuhei Yoshida looks back on his long career at PlayStation while at Gamescom Latam 2025

VentureBeat

Shu Yoshida has graduated from Sony, but he is not retired. Rather, he is running a new indie games consulting company dubbed YOSP Inc. Yoshida’s appetite to do more in gaming shows just how much he loves indie game developers.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.