Nonprofit AI Report

AI TRENDS

• News & Breakthroughs

  • The Future of Creative Content: How AI Tools are Empowering Nonprofits to Revolutionize Multimedia Production

  • AWS AI Breakthrough Could Reshape eCommerce (and Donor?) Landscape

  • Navigating the Expanding AI Landscape: Top 50 AI Web Products and Top 50 AI Mobile Apps

• Case Studies & AI Research

  • Report from Google Cloud on Data and AI Trends

AI TOOLS

• Modeling

  • Microsoft introduced three new models in its Phi series—Phi-3.5-mini-instruct, Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct, and Phi-3.5-vision-instruct—delivering impressive benchmark performances that surpass competitors like GPT-4o and Llama in specific tasks. Despite their smaller size, these open-source models are now available on Hugging Face under the MIT License, offering near-state-of-the-art results for various AI applications.

• Marketing

  • The increasing dominance of mobile e-commerce, driven by Gen Z's shopping habits and the rise of buy-now, pay-later options, highlights the need for nonprofits to optimize mobile-friendly donation platforms and leverage social commerce. With e-commerce growth slowing and higher digital ad costs, nonprofits should focus on mobile engagement strategies, including email campaigns, to maximize fundraising during the holiday season.

• Content Creation

  • Google has introduced a new Prompt Gallery feature in its AI Studio, enabling users to experiment with long-context prompts, native multi-modal capabilities (including image, video, and audio), structured outputs, and more.

  • Ideogram helps brainstorm creative design concepts

• Video

  • Krea added a FLUX model with many styles, video and image variations, and multiple aspect ratios.

  • Adobe's new "Magic Fixup" AI model, trained on millions of video frames, revolutionizes photo editing by making sophisticated edits while preserving fine details. This technology could significantly improve workflows in advertising, filmmaking, and content creation, but it also raises ethical concerns about image authenticity.

• Images

  • Ideogram 2.0 is the brand’s newest text-to-image model and is now freely available to all users on ideogram.ai and their new iOS app! Premium features are available via subscription plans. Developers can now build with Ideogram 2.0 using their new beta Ideogram API.

• Text

• Fundraising

• Donor Analytics

• Copilots and Operational Efficiency

  • Macky answers any business-related question in seconds with over 55 business categories

• Data Management  & Visualization

• Engagement

• Chatbots & Virtual Assistants

  • OpenAI Unveils GPT-4o Fine-Tuning

• Social Media

  • Tweethooks: Create hooks in seconds to grow your 𝕏 account.

  • The trend of TikTok users indulging in self-gifting and making more travel-related purchases suggests that nonprofits could benefit from targeting this audience with holiday fundraising campaigns. The platform's diverse community, which celebrates various cultural traditions, also indicates an opportunity to tap into higher spending behaviors, potentially leading to increased donations. By aligning fundraising appeals with the self-gifting mindset and leveraging TikTok's reach, nonprofits can maximize their impact during the holiday season.

COMMENTARY

• Charity Spring

  • The Future of Creative Content: How AI Tools are Empowering Nonprofits to Revolutionize Multimedia Production

  • AI Tools Revolutionize Online Shopping, Prompting Brands to Overhaul Digital Marketing—Implications for Donor Behavior

  • The Weeknd's São Paulo Concert Trailer Showcases the Future of Creativity with Multiple AI Tools

• Other Commentary

  • AI Readiness and Adoption in the Nonprofit Sector in 2024. Results from GivingTuesday’s AI Readiness Survey

  • Most charity professionals use AI but lack resources to explore fully

  • Salesforce Applies GenAI to Diverse Nonprofit Use Cases

  • Nonprofits that use AI are also more likely to say that their income has increased, according to Blackbaud.

• Future Forecasts

  • AI Regulation Looms as GenAI Adoption Surges