Artificial Intelligence

Over the last few years, artificial intelligence and its machine learning applications have been proving the power of their predictive ability to amplify charitable giving.    AI-driven fundraising platforms have become increasingly sophisticated and affordable. Experts say this is assisting early nonprofit adopters in lowering donor acquisition costs, exceeding fundraising goals, and increasing workforce expansion.…

‘AI’ is a bit of a buzzword right now, in both the public and private sectors. So when the opportunity to collaborate with boodleAI came along, I was eager to better understand AI’s potential impact on the nonprofit sector (for better or worse). After all, I’ve spent my entire career working for nonprofits and have…

Broadly speaking, AI and its most popular subset, machine learning (ML), can be harnessed for social good. If you Google “AI (fill in the blank social cause)” and you will find the countless ways AI is making the world a better place. To name a few, AI is helping scientists tackle climate change, healthcare providers…

By Eric Okimoto & Katrina VanHuss No more dumb questions, we don’t care what your fourth-grade teacher said. A dumb question is a question asked with no context. And, as peer to peer (P2P) organizers send their volunteer fundraisers into the world, they are sending them out there to ask dumb questions, which can make…

What Are the Benefits of Clean Donor Data? You spend a fortune on a direct mail campaign only to have hundreds of letters sent back as undeliverable. You send an email to a former table host to follow-up on your invite to this year’s annual gala…only to discover they moved and never received the physical…