<aside> ⚠️ Setting Up ChatGPT

To set up a free ChatGPT account quickly, visit the 🔗 ChatGPT Website and click "sign up". Register using your email or Google, Microsoft, or Apple account. Verify your phone and confirm your email to complete signup. Once logged in, navigate the dashboard and start chatting.

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<aside> 🌐 View the Full Article For the detailed article, including examples of ChatGPT’s responses, visit the AI-Driven Impact blog post on the Mostly Serious website:

AI-Driven Impact: Leveraging ChatGPT for Nonprofits

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Workshop Overview

Today, I will walk in the shoes (aka mechanical feet) of SerenaBot, the newest team member at Sunshine Nonprofit, an organization dedicated to providing solar-powered solutions to off-grid communities. SerenaBot has a list of tasks she needs to accomplish, and AI can be the perfect assistant to support her work. As we go through the tasks below, I encourage you to replace Sunshine Nonprofit with your organization to see how AI will manage tasks directly related to your day-to-day needs.

In this workshop, we will be tackling the following tasks:

  1. Communication: We'll walk through the essentials of communication. Learn how ChatGPT can help write emails, summarize articles and documents, and have conversations about PDFs using plugins.
  2. Event Planning: We’ll brainstorm event ideas, create core materials to support the event, then create a highly detailed logistical checklist to keep our event on track from first promotion through cleanup.
  3. Marketing Plan & Tactics: We’ll use ChatGPT to brainstorm a six-month marketing plan to support our event; then, we’ll use it to create a rough draft social media schedule and press release that we can refine further.
  4. Volunteer Coordination: We’ll draft a targeted volunteer recruitment message and then use ChatGPT to assist in scheduling and assigning tasks to volunteers for the "Solar Sprint" Charity Fun Run.
  5. Grant Writing: We'll use ChatGPT's web browsing feature to assist in researching grant opportunities and requirements. Then, we'll have ChatGPT write a draft for a section of the grant.
  6. Advanced Prompts: Time permitting, we’ll review and use a set of advanced prompts.

🔗 WORKSHOP SECTIONS

Communication | Event Planning | Marketing Plan | Volunteer Coordination | Grant Writing

Communication

We will begin with several prompts aimed at having ChatGPT summarize information, and identify key points. Following that, we will utilize a plugin to ask ChatGPT questions related to a PDF.

Summarize a Long Message

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Summarize this message and list the action items. {include your email or message here: Sunshine Nonprofit Donor Email }

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Summarize & List Key Takeaways From an Article

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Summarize the article using words that a beginner would understand. Then list the 3 most important takeaways, in bullet point format. Then, recommend next steps for me to learn more about this topic.

{Link to an article or use this example article}

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Chat About a PDF

Before we can use plugins, we'll need to toggle the feature on in the settings area.

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Summarize the PDF using words that a beginner would understand. List the 3 most important takeaways, in bullet point format. Then, recommend next steps for me to learn more about this topic.

{Link to the PDF or use this example: https://media.cfozarks.org/CFO-ARFY22-FOR-WEB.pdf}

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Note: If your PDF is not already online, you can use a service like https://ufile.io to upload your PDF and get a link to share with ChatGPT.