Strategic insights for nonprofit program managers: Tips to get started with AI
As a program manager at a nonprofit organization, integrating AI into your daily work can significantly enhance productivity and impact. AI can help you manage your finances and operations, communicate your goals and accomplishments to stakeholders and the broader community, and stay on top of your daily tasks. Not sure where to start? Read this guide to get started on your AI skilling journey today.
Here are three additional tips to harness AI in your daily routines:
- Let AI organize your day and stay on top of your project tasks: Being a program manager means constantly moving from meeting to meeting and context switching from project to project. Let AI help you organize your day and make your meetings more efficient by generating meeting agendas, taking notes, and more.
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- Use AI to make data aggregation and analysis more efficient: Data is critical when making proposals and providing updates to leadership, donors, and community members, but good data doesn’t always come in the format you need. Learn how to insert data into excel from a photo so you always have the data you need, no matter how you receive it.
- Prompt AI to write drafts for you: AI can help you articulate your ideas more effectively by suggesting sentences or paragraphs while writing your grant proposals, project reports, and other documents. Good prompts can make this process go smoothly and efficiently. Learn how to write effective prompts with impact with TechSoup ’s prompt engineering guide.
The Microsoft Digital Skills Center for Nonprofits, made in collaboration with TechSoup , has these resources and more on AI skilling for you and your peers. Get started today with free skilling resources: https://aka.ms/TechSoup
Additional skilling resources from the Microsoft Philanthropies team:
- Not sure where to start? Try the Digital Skills Compass for personalized training recommendations.
- Visit our Nonprofit Training and Resources site for additional skilling specific to nonprofit professionals
- For a comprehensive overview of the skilling resource available, visit the Digital Skills Resource Hub
- Microsoft supports a community of nonprofit professionals, like you, who are embarking on a new AI journey. Join our free learning community today: Aka.ms/nonprofitcommunity
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