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Telling a compelling story: Communicating program impact in a grant proposal

Candid

A narrative that illustrates your nonprofit’s program impact The logic model is a classic framework for illustrating a program’s impact. A proposal focused on program impact includes: Need: What need does your program serve? These inputs are discussed in the project description and budget sections of your proposal.

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Doing good with AI tools: Navigating ethical considerations for the social sector 

Candid

As AI is increasingly used in high-impact ways such as writing and assessing grant proposals, how can we make sure that it is used ethically, minimizing the risk of harm? Similarly, we saw evidence that the model was associating “People of Latin American descent” with “Incarcerated people.”

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ChatGPT for Nonprofits: How to Leverage Artificial Intelligence

CauseVox

I’m referring to ChatGPT , a revolutionary language model developed by OpenAI that’s changing the game in every industry. ChatGPT (Chat Generated Paragraph Techniques) is an advanced natural language processing tool to provide information and cobble content together based on prompts entered by a user. Well, there’s a solution.

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Top Ten Data Challenges (And Solutions) for Associations

Association Analytics

Older models tended to be AMS-centric, leading to siloed data, static reports, and that trapped feeling. It can be a challenge to get everyone on board with one language when things have been done differently in the past. Does your team propose solution after solution, but never makes a decision on which one to implement?

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Participatory Grantmaking: I’m in! Now what?

sgEngage

You’ve read about participatory grantmaking—and maybe even heard about other organizations using this model to distribute control of their funding strategy and grants decisions to the communities they serve. Perhaps you’ll start by reading about other models , watching webinars, or developing ideas. Is this you?

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The Unrecognized Risk of Status Quo Problem-Solving Skills for Grantmakers

sgEngage

In grant proposals and pitches, they want you to predict the future and show how, with your eloquent promises and plans for impact, you can best provide them the assurance of certainty. Many funders want to wait to see how new models, programs, and leaders will perform, and they often require other funders to buy in before they will.

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The AI Writing Prompt Formula and Prompt Ideas

Whole Whale

Assuming that staff can just wander on to general AI models and create content is like when nonprofits thought it was a good idea to give their social comms to interns a decade ago. Give Context : Make your style clear by using descriptive language about your audience and flex that thesaurus for tone. Higher temperature values (e.g.,

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