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Demo Days for Nonprofits
Looking for live training on AI for your organization? Do you want to learn how to use AI-powered tools and technologies to help you automate processes, streamline everyday tasks, analyze existing data, ensure accessibility, generate new ideas, and craft relevant messaging? If so, join us for Demo Days: Microsoft Tools and Technologies for Nonprofits, a series of live trainings that will show you how to make the most of Microsoft products for your nonprofit mission. Each event focuses on a different AI-powered tool available in the Office Suite and is tailored to the most common functions at a nonprofit: program management, marketing, fundraising, people development, and administrative tasks. Learn more and register below! All sessions are scheduled for 8am PDT, and on-demand recordings will be available for all who register, even if you cannot make that time. Sessions will be held in English with captions available in Arabic, Hindi, Chinese (Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish. You can register for one or all the sessions, depending on your interest and availability. Each session will last for one hour and will include a live demonstration of Microsoft features and scenarios as well as a Q&A session with the presenter. Topics include: Prompt engineering for Nonprofits Reimagine your workflow with Copilot Power Platform Citizen Developer I: Where to start? Making your content more inclusive and user-friendly with Microsoft Accessibility tools How to create and deploy conversational bots in minutes with Copilot Studio. Don't miss this opportunity to learn how to use Microsoft tools and technologies for your nonprofit mission. Register today for Demo Days and get ready to transform your nonprofit work with Microsoft products! These sessions are open to any nonprofit so please feel free to share with others.
Interested in your assessment of organizational skills gap for AI
Hello, MS Nonprofit Community! I am writing a Harvard Business Review piece on organization readiness for AI and would like to know your assessment of your organization and whether anyone wants to be interviewed for the article. Thank you, Mariette Wharton nimblemindset.orgInteresting question posed to me yesterday
Since MS's Nonprofit Global Leaders Summit, I have been talking to many people in our organisation about the benefits of Gen AI and trying to allay fears that it is going to take their jobs. However, yesterday a person getting started with her career asked me an excellent and very valid question that I did not know how to answer. I thought I would bring it to this community to see if anyone had thoughts or ideas on how to respond to it. This person is a creative person. The question: "I understand that AI can help me do my job. However, I get immense job and self-satisfaction from the creative process and knowing that I am the one who created the content, design, whatever it might be. If I offload that to AI, where does the job satisfaction come in?" Thoughts?Copilot Products: Breakdown
We've seen a lot of copilot demos in the last couple of days: here's what the products are and what they do: 1. Microsoft Copilot: Formerly Bing chat has access to the internet but not your email or calendar 2. Microsoft 365 Copilot: Everything in MS copilot plus access your 365 email, calendar, etc. 3. Microsoft CoPilot Studio: low code interface to customize virtual power agents that enable customization of your AI Community and Microsoft team- please add or correct!Iceberg Ahead: The Unseen Data Divide in AI
85% of AI's training data comes from the global north, highlighting the digitalization gap of the global south. This imbalance is more than just a discrepancy; it represents a profound division that risks distorting AI's applicability and effectiveness across different global communities. As development professionals, how can we tackle this digitalization divide to ensure AI truly represents a diverse range of human experiences? What innovative strategies can you implement to integrate the unique cultural and digital landscapes of the global south into the AI development process?Microsoft releases new version of SeeingAI
It's a free app that narrates the world for blind and low vision people, right from your phone! It supports people with daily tasks like reading mail, identifying every day products, hearing descriptions of photos, and much more. This version launches on Android for the first time and with this launch, will be available in 18 languages now with a plan to expand to 36 in 2024! Check out the full article here: Seeing AI App Launches on Android – Including new and updated features and new languages. - Microsoft Accessibility BlogMicrosoft's AI & Sustainability Playbook
How can AI be used to help accelerate sustainability? Microsoft's Vice Chair and President, Brad Smith, shared a new playbook that outlines five enabling conditions for using AI to accelerate sustainability solutions. Learn more and access the playbook here: Brad Smith LinkedIn - Accelerating Sustainability with AI: A PlaybookThe very first organizational adoption of AI steps ... your experience!
I've been reflecting on what I'm hearing about nonprofit AI adoption from leaders in the early stages of the journey. That critical first step is to understand and listen to staff concerns about how AI might change their jobs and other real or perceived concerns. * Fear of job of obsoletism due to “offloading” tasks to the AI - that their job might go away or be revert from full-time to part-time contract work. * Discomfort over the rapid pace of change and perceived steep learning curve while being overwhelmed with current workloads. * Worry about the impersonal nature of AI, which might diminish human interaction and decision-making in professional settings. * Concerns about losing their sense of purpose and job satisfaction. Once people put their hands on the tech, they realize that some of these are a perception. I've also heard concerns at this stage - something along the lines of "It takes too much to experiment, I could just write the **bleep** email myself in less time." I think that is more about habit change and acquiring a new skill. What concerns are you hearing and how have you addressed them?
