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FROM THE FUNDRAISING GUIDE:
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I recently asked ChatGPT how the media development community should address the influx of AI in the fundraising process.
Here are a few of the strategies it suggested for taking proactive steps to understand, adapt to, and leverage the technology effectively:
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🗹 Education and Awareness: Media development organisations should prioritise educating themselves and their members about AI and its implications for fundraising. This includes understanding how AI can streamline processes, improve efficiency, and potentially transform traditional fundraising methods.
🗹 Training and Capacity Building: Provide training and capacity-building opportunities for media professionals to develop skills in AI utilisation for fundraising. This might involve workshops, webinars, or partnerships with experts in AI technology.
🗹 Ethical Considerations: Ensure that discussions around AI in fundraising include considerations of ethics and integrity. Address concerns related to data privacy, intellectual property, and potential biases in AI algorithms.
🗹 Adaptation of Strategies: Adapt fundraising strategies to incorporate AI technologies where appropriate. This might include using AI for donor segmentation, personalised messaging, predictive analytics, or automated donor stewardship.
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It also had valid suggestions for experimentation and innovation, collaboration and knowledge sharing, engagement with donors, and evaluation and iteration.
Not bad for a hunk of junk, right? Just remember that this is the accumulation of all the discussions currently going on online.
You can get some human reflections on how to use AI in fundraising in the section of how-to guides in the Fundraising Guide.
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Media Development Investment Fund
Deadline: March 16
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Earth Journalism Network
Deadline: March 31
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International Fund for Public Interest Media
The International Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM) aims to enable global media markets to work for democracy.
It aims to boost the economic resilience of independent media organizations in crisis, to support experimentation and innovation, and to bring about a new paradigm of sustainability for independent public interest journalism.
It does so through providing funding to media organizations in need of immediate financial support and through working across a series of cross-cutting priority areas including:
✅ Building inclusive news ecosystems
✅ Engaging young audiences
✅ Deploying new technologies effectively and ethically
The fund supports media organizations and ecosystem-level interventions across four focus regions: Africa and the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe.
For more information see GFMD's profile on the IFPIM here.
ZEIT-Stiftung
ZEIT-Stiftung, also known as the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, is a prominent German private, non-profit foundation headquartered in Hamburg. Established in 1971, the foundation is dedicated to advancing education, culture, research, and politics and society initiatives. Its 'Bucerius Lab' examines the 'effects of digitization' in public discussions and at conferences.
With a commitment to fostering critical thinking, democratic values, and societal progress, ZEIT-Stiftung plays a pivotal role in supporting projects that promote informed public discourse and media excellence.
The foundation commits resources to strengthening independent journalism in Eastern Europe and, together with the Norwegian Fritt Ord foundation, co-presents the Free Media Awards, recognizing outstanding journalists, editorial teams, and media companies from Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, and Armenia. These awards honour individuals and organizations that courageously defend press independence in the face of significant challenges.
For more information see GFMD's profile on ZEIT-Stiftung here.
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WHAT WE'RE FOLLOWING ABOUT MEDIA FUNDING THIS MONTH
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WEBINAR
🖥️ 8 Nonprofit AI Tools and Tips to Help Grow Awareness, Funding, and Engagement
Amy Neumann, a distinguished social impact entrepreneur and non-profit founder, presents a Donorbox webinar on the use of AI in the non-profit sector. She looks into the importance of AI for non-profits, providing advice on evaluating its fit with the issues faced by your organization and illustrating its effectiveness through real-life examples.
The webinar also covers the crucial aspects of diversity, equity, and inclusion when incorporating AI into your operations. Learn about the existing AI tools and strategies for future preparedness, enabling your non-profit to harness AI's potential to amplify impact in the digital era.
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🖥️ Corporate Giving Strategies
Discover innovative corporate giving strategies in a webinar hosted by The Lenfest Institute featuring Johanna Derlega, founder of Beech Strategies and former chief revenue officer of The 19th. Johanna offers insights into her year-long transformation of The 19th’s corporate support strategy, employing user-centred design principles to cater to both corporate backers and the publication's needs.
Dive deeper with the Corporate Giving Workbook, Johanna's comprehensive guide designed to empower news fundraisers in implementing design thinking strategies to attract corporate support. Gain valuable insights as Johanna provides an overview of the Workbook's processes and discusses their application at The 19th.
ARTICLES
Getting started with AI-driven fundraising
As non-profits increasingly seek efficiency and smarter fundraising strategies, AI has emerged as a powerful tool. This guide, a crash course by Tim Paris for Candid, focuses on AI-driven fundraising, explaining its mechanics and potential benefits. By harnessing machine learning technology, non-profits can analyse donor data to predict behaviour and tailor outreach efforts.
AI enables targeted mailing lists, proactive donor engagement, and optimized campaign planning, ultimately leading to higher conversion rates and reduced overhead costs.
Read the full guide here.
Many small news nonprofits feel overlooked by funders. A new coalition is giving them a voice
There are haves and have-nots in the nonprofit journalism space. And this isn’t right.
Over the course of several months, Nieman Lab's writer Sophie Culpepper diligently researched and compiled a two-part series titled ‘Haves and have-nots’ in nonprofit news? The view from small news outlets. Conducting interviews with numerous individuals from small nonprofit news outlets, associations, and foundations, Sophie garnered candid insights, resulting in comprehensive pieces that shed light on the funding landscape in the United States.
With topics ranging from "bacon-wrapped conferences" to crucial debates, this series offers a rich tapestry of perspectives, making it essential reading for those interested in the intricacies of news funding.
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TIPS AND TOOLS FOR MONITORING, EVALUATION, AND LEARNING
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Impact builder
The Impact Builder is an online hub of outcomes, indicators and data collection tools designed to help organisations monitor and evaluate their projects and programmes. It has been developed by more than 100 UK NGOs, brought together by Bond, a UK network for organisations working in international development.
The Impact Builder facilitates the development of project proposals, logframes, and evaluation plans, providing three key benefits:
✅ Enhance efficiency and save resources: By utilizing established outcomes, performance indicators, and measurement tools endorsed by leading international development organizations and widely recognized by donors and NGOs, duplication in measurement and reporting is minimised, resulting in time and cost savings.
✅ Utilize proven methodologies: The Impact Builder incorporates indicators and tools recommended by organisations that have successfully employed them, following extensive consultation with over 100 UK NGOs. This ensures the adoption of effective approaches backed by real-world experience.
✅ Foster cross-project learning: By selecting outcome indicators from a curated list, projects aimed at achieving similar results can be compared more effectively, facilitating insights into successful strategies and areas for improvement, thus promoting organisational learning.
For those with connectivity challenges it is possible to download the offline version to get an overview and links to the available tools.
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