About the Academy
AI tools are reshaping and enhancing how social purpose teams work, from content creation and grant writing to program design and personalized donor engagement. Future of Good’s AI for Social Impact Academy is an innovative professional learning series for purpose-oriented teams, leaders, and professionals interested in staying current and enhancing their skills by deepening their understanding and applications of generative AI tools in their work ethically and responsibly. Responsive and participatory, you’ll learn in an interactive online format from expert practitioners and peers, exploring real-world cases of AI use for social impact. Taking place online on September 26, 2024, this is the first of an ongoing professional learning series on AI for Social Impact hosted by Future of Good.
Why attend?
- Work smarter: Boost your knowledge about generative AI tools already making a difference for social purpose teams.
- Mitigate risks: Understand equity, biases and ethical challenges and how to thoughtfully navigate them.
- Learn from your peers: Discover how others are using AI for impact and which approach may be best for you (or share your experience, too)
- Interactive learning: Ask direct questions to expert practitioners based on real-world examples
Key questions to be addressed
- What are the safety and ethical questions when using generative AI tools? What have organizations learned?
- How can leaders and teams develop implementation plans for using AI tools in their organization? What are the tough decisions leaders have had to make?
- What are real-world examples of generative AI tools in social purpose organizations, and what difference are they making
- How is AI used to personalize donor engagement and deploy smarter fundraising campaigns?
- What are examples of how AI is used to develop smarter community programs and services?
Who should participate?
The AI for Social Impact Academy provides new insights and practical knowledge on how to prepare for and implement generative AI tools in purpose-oriented organizations. Intentionally designed as an ongoing up-skilling learning series, team leaders, managers, board directors, executives as well as professionals in fundraising, communications, volunteer management, research, program design and delivery, impact measurement, grantmaking, DEI, HR, and operations keen to enhance their know-how will find this learning experience beneficial. By thoughtful implementation of AI tools, they will be better able to improve decision-making, increase efficiency, enhance creativity, realize cost savings, and future-proof their work.
Our journalism on AI For Social Impact
Is AI your new non-profit coworker? Here are the ways that social purpose organizations are adopting ChatGPT.
Why it matters: It only took five days for ChatGPT to reach a million users. While there are clear benefits to using an AI-enabled tool when it comes to reducing time and resources spent on tasks, there are also some open questions for the social impact world in particular: what are the ethics of using artificial intelligence when working directly with communities?
Non-profit AI data tool helping cities predict urban heating effects
Why it matters: Applying predictive models and machine learning to a dataset can help municipal governments understand where to direct funding for urban cooling infrastructure. However, developing and maintaining the appropriate digital tools can be challenging.
New framework designed to advocate for responsible AI use among fundraisers. How does it work?
Why it matters: Since ChatGPT launched in November 2022, many non-profit organizations have used it to drive efficiency and innovation. However, non-profits could jeopardize public trust in them without knowing how generative AI affects them, their donors, and their clients.
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