AI for Nonprofits

Chapter 16Community Engagement

Based on insights from an interview with Eli Pariser.

Imagine your nonprofit is launching a pedestrian safety campaign to ensure a local school remains a safe place for children. That's not a goal one person or organization can achieve alone; it requires a communal approach to solving a community challenge. But activating networks and mobilizing action can be challenging. AI to the rescue! By leveraging AI, you can gather input from various sources, distill this information, and elevate the voices of affected communities. AI acts as a catalyst for aligning diverse groups and amplifying collective voices. This chapter will guide you through the effective use of AI to facilitate collaboration and harness the strength in numbers to advance impactful change.

Critical Skills and Competencies

Synthesize and Personalize Collective Voices

Understanding how a wide range of stakeholders feel about an issue is a crucial first step to inspiring shared action. Use AI tools like SurveyMonkey Analyze (https://www.surveymonkey.com) and Amazon Comprehend (https://aws.amazon.com/comprehend) to aggregate and analyze sentiments from diverse inputs, whether from surveys, digital comment boxes, or transcribed voicemails. Then you can easily upload this data into your GenAI platform to further help you cluster and summarize similar ideas.

It's often helpful to illustrate and personalize this, so ask AI to identify the largest subgroups, give them catchy names, ...