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A practical guide to OpenAI ChatGPT for nonprofits, including charity discounts and pricing. Plus, which is the best for nonprofits - ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot 365? Our free Charity Excellence AI and ChatGPT services, training and guides, and all you need to know about writing prompts. If you're brand new to this, you may wish to first read our introductory guide to Chat GPT first, including how to create a free ChatGPT account. Easier still, use of 'oven-ready' charity prompts in our non profit ChatGPT prompts list and our in-system AI Bunny will even write and run your prompts for you. Register, then login - everything is free.
There is a basic free version (currently ChatGPT 3.5) and a paid for Plus version. Open AI for Non Profits, includes discounts for ChatGPT Team and Enterprise. You can find the ChatGPT pricing here.
Whilst you also have to pay for Microsoft Copilot 365, registered charitable nonprofits can claim the Microsoft nonprofit grant of US$2,000 pa, which you can also use for other Microsoft products such as Azure. You can find the Copilot 365 pricing here.
ChatGPT has a broader range of conversational AI capabilities but Microsoft Copilot 365 has integration and arguably better data utilisation and factual accuracy. It's also real time, which ChatGPT isn't and I find that useful for grant searches. In my view, for very small unregistered nonprofits ChatGPT is probably all you need, because it's free and the integration is of less value to you. However, for bigger registered charities, Microsoft Copilot 365 offers more in the longer term. But don't forget that current AI models struggle with context, lack human creativity and insight, and make mistakes.
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There is no set format, but roughly a prompt is what you want ChatGPT to do, what you want it to create, the tone/style to use, who this is for, and any other instructions. It's best to write fairly short prompts and then ask ChatGPT to add to its responses. Here's an example:
Create a list of 12 fundraising ideas that are simple and easy to do for a small UK charity.
Create your own by choosing from the words below.
Suggest some prompts for a UK nonprofit that......................
Don't make your ChatGPT prompts too complex or too long, but there are a whole range of other ways to frame prompts. Here are some ideas:
If you're now ready to up your ChatGPT game, you might try the ideas below. These may not give you what you want if your first attempt, so try variations, regenerate or ask follow on prompts.
Getting good results from ChatGPT requires you to be precise so the Custom Instructions for ChatGPT option makes it much more useful. Even if all you put in is that you’re a UK charity and want spelling in UK English. I’ve added more and it works but, as usual, not always and not perfectly.
ChatGPT has built-in guardrails, but these are not infallible. Some of my initial prompts generated ideas including women's groups baking and selling delicious treats, an LGBTQI+ drag show, and a haggis eating competition for people of Scottish heritage. I'm Scottish and a haggis eating competition works for me, but ..........
I've built additional safeguards into the in-system tech bunny that creates ChatGPT prompts for you (launching 2 June). You may wish to write safeguards into your own prompts. For example:
Use language that is inclusive of everyone, particularly minority groups.
Use language that is inclusive of <group>.
Do not use language that <group> might find <disrespectful, exclusive, derogatory, or insensitive>.
Paste your prompt into the ChatGPT task bar and the bottom of your screen and click the arrow button on the right hand side of this.
Click the AI Bunny icon in the bottom right of your screen at any time for help with using ChatGPT, or any other issue relating to running a non profit or charity. Ask it short questions, including key words.
Once you have your draft, think about how well it meets your needs. You could amend your initial prompt and run it again or click the Regenerate response button in ChatGPT (above the task bar) and it'll rewrite it differently, using your original prompt. Or you might ask it to do something different based on the answer it has given you.
For example:
ChatGPT can make mistakes, or it may get the tone wrong, so always check whatever it produces and amend it as necessary to create the end result you want.
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