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ChatGPT for charities, including step-by-step guidance and how to use ChatGPT for your UK charity or non profit, including fundraising with links to our free charity ChatGPT services, plus Chat GPT for non profits FAQs at the end.
If you struggle with tech, register then login and chat to the in-system AI bunny. It will run charity ChatGPT prompts for you, including writing fundraising bids. For help in using ChatGPT for your charity, use our 'oven-ready' library for charities (it includes fundraising prompts) and, if you want to write your own, use our ChatGPT prompt writing guide.
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ChatGPT is a global system, knows nothing about you or your charity and it isn't human. Here are key points in writing Chat GPT prompts.
In addition to the 6 systems within Charity Excellence, we provide a range of free AI for non profits and charities. Just click the AI bunny icon in the bottom right of any web page or in-system and tell it what you need.
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Before you get started here's what you need to know to get the most out of using Chat GPT for charities.
AI has been around for a long time, but generative AI is a much newer type, which will fundamentally change the world in which we live. It has huge capabilities and potential, but also substantial risks. Here are our simple to understand resources on what AI is and the impact it will have on charities, fundraising and charity sector jobs.
We also provide a range of free and simple to use AI services for charities and, if you have any questions about AI, ask the AI Tech Bunny which appears in the bottom right of every screen on our site.
ChatGPT is an AI chatbot developed by OpenAI and released in November 2022. It is a natural language processing tool that allows you to have human-like conversations and much more with the chatbot. It can answer questions and assist you with a whole range of tasks, but is a text only tool (so far).
ChatGPT is the best known and most widely used, but there are an increasing number of others, such as Google's Bard launched in Mar 23.
Previously called Bard, Gemini is Google's version of ChatGPT and is similar. However, you can export your results and also click for a Google search. Click here to register with Gemini.
The Blank Page Problem. No idea where to get started? For something you have to write, or the script for a presentation or talking points for a meeting - ask it to make suggestions for you.
Creating Ideas. For example, ideas for your fundraising, skills and experience required for a job advert or even good questions to ask at an interview, or ask it what a donor you're due to meet might ask you and how you might respond.
Analysis. Paste in your draft report and ask it for feedback, or tell it about your fantastic new idea and ask it to critique it or to identify risks and opportunities.
Summarising. Now you've written that great report you could ask it to summarise it for the Board, or draft a press release, website content or social media posts. If you have a big report to read, ask it to summarise it, or to create a bullet point list of the key points.
Have Fun and Spur Your Creativity. There's no end of opportunities. For example, if you have to present dry facts (like finance) to a team away day, why not ask it to write it in the style of a rapper, or King Charles - depending on your audience, obviously.
Privacy Issues. ChatGPT is extremely powerful and can enable charities to achieve far more and be much more efficient, but there are some 'must dos' that you need to know about.
Limitations.
Using ChatGPT Safely. To ensure that your charity is using AI safely, use our Charity AI Ethics & Governance Framework, which is a simple practical toolkit for everyone.
The checks above enable you to avoid most of the issues people encounter, but occasionally people still experience problems.
You don't need to come back to this resource, as the AI Bunnies can answer all your questions about using ChatGPT and charity AI. Just click the icon in the bottom right of any screen and ask it short questions, including key words. Actually, they can answer almost any question relating to non profits and charities and the in-system bunny can even write funding bids for you. Simply Register, then login - everything is free.
To sign your charity up for ChatGPT is pretty straightforward, but I've included step-by-step instructions for those who may not be confident using online systems.
Step 1. Got to the OpenAI website.
Step 2. Click the "Sign Up" option.
Step 3. Enter your email address or continue with your Google account.
Step 4. If you used your email address to sign up, you will set an 8-character password and then receive a verification email. Click on the “Verify email address”.
Step 5. Enter your first and last name, then click “Continue”.
Step 6. Whatever method you used; phone verification is required. Select your country, enter your phone number, and click “Send code”.
Step 7. Enter the 6-digit code you received on your phone.
Step 8. You've successfully created your account, which is free.
Using ChatGPT for your charity is very simple.
Your chat history will appear in the black column on the left and click bottom left for settings, FAQs etc.
ChatGPT has access to a huge volume of data it can use to help you, but it needs to know what kind of organisation you are, what you want and the style you want it written in. Want to make your dry board finance report more interesting? Ask it to rewrite it in the style of Yoda, not a problem.
To make it easy for you, we have created a whole series of charity prompts, into which you can <insert> what you want. You can use our examples, but these are only really to give you some ideas and inserting your own may work ever better.
There are some activities we don't think it works well for.
For a variety of reasons, writing a fundraising bid using Chat GPT is quite complicated to do well, so we've taught the in-system AI bunny to do it for you. Login, click the Funding Bid button and chat to it - no fundraising or ChatGPT expertise required. Click here, to get started.
You can use ChatGPT to write policies, but it has no data after 2021 and you need to include specific issues and detail, guidance may well have been issued by multiple regulators and good policies should reflect best practice, not just the rules. This varies from policy to policy, which makes this more complicated and problematic, when using ChatGPT.
We have used it by targeting specific statutory guidance, which we know is the right single source but, even then, we've found that we had to rework drafts, because what it produced wasn't good enough. We draft most of our example policies from scratch, or with some limited input from ChatGPT. We have created 30+ policies so far, which can be downloaded in Word format in-system. Details here.
Plus, 60+downloadable funder lists, 8 online health checks and the huge resource base. Nearly half of our tens of thousands of members rate us 10/10.
Quick, simple and very effective.
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The AI software Charity Excellence uses is provided pro bono by Biomni and we also receive significant pro bono support from their AI developers, without which we would not be able to deliver our growing suite of AI services. To exploit the potential of AI in your own charity, speak to them about having your own Charity Bot.
