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RAG-Enhanced Conversational AI: A Comprehensive Guide

Forum One

The introduction of Retrieval-Augmented Generation, or RAG, now allows AI applications to enhance the capabilities of machine learning models by integrating them with a retrieval component. Avoid Vendor and Model Lock-in: The AI space is still evolving rapidly.

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Elevating your major gifts and planned giving with data-driven decision-making

EveryAction

Even if you know a donor’s income, a big “if” with legacy models, do you understand their expenses or true net worth? Legacy-modeled data often fails to take details like these into account. Let’s dive deeper into how data-informed decision-making can support your fundraising. Here, Bethany could have more capacity to give.

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What can nonprofit technology trainers learn from the social work field to improve their training techniques?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s a few frameworks and techniques I learned first hand from Nancy as she accompanied me to the sessions I was leading. It is about simply learning how to use a new tool or technique. Nancy used the phrase “pre-contemplation” and “contemplation” stages of behavior change and introduce me to a behavior change framework.

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3 Tips to Prepare Your Nonprofit’s Team for AI Fundraising

Greater Giving

Predictive analytics: BWF defines predictive analytics as the process of assessing your nonprofit’s data to make predictions and model future donor behavior. By analyzing historical data, AI models can anticipate future donor behavior and identify potentially valuable fundraising opportunities.

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Your 2024 New Year's Resolution Check-In

Eric Jacobsen Blog

New Year's Resolutions for leaders : Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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Predictive Modeling vs. Wealth Screening: Effective Segmentation Programs Require a Healthy Mix

Connection Cafe

Whenever I am on the road with clients the conversation always turns to a debate about the value of predictive modeling vs. the value of traditional wealth screening. Some tend to gravitate toward wealth data alone because it feels more tangible—or understandable—than predictive modeling. It’s a great debate.

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[Breaking News] An Extraordinary Funding Opportunity For Nonprofits To Preserve Local Journalism

Bloomerang

Nonprofits focused on the preservation of local journalism are being called to step up, and many of the country’s largest private foundations have announced $500 million in funding over five years to support them, an extraordinary initiative called Press Forward.

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