Since the launch of ChatGPT back in late 2022 there has been a huge amount of excitement on how it and Generative AI in general can be used to advance technology, drive efficiencies, research and give early adopting businesses a cutting edge over their competitors. But what about Generative AI and ChatGPT for the charity sector?
Before we take a deeper look into how ChatGPT can be used by charities, lets take a look at a quick example.
Charity Volunteer Registration Form Template
To show the power of Generative AI for charities we asked ChatGPT to create a Volunteer Registration Form that was both fit for purpose and compliant, as shown in the video.
Using it’s training combined with the additional information provided it has created a Charity Volunteer Registration Form Template which can be further enhanced and branded as needed. You can download a copy of the Charity Volunteer Registration Form below.
Free Charity Volunteer Registration Form (6 downloads )How to get started with ChatGPT for charities?
If you are new to ChatGPT, all you need to do is head over to www.chatgpt.com and create a free account. In fact you don’t even need to create an account to use it, but by creating an account it will save all your history of what you ask it to do and what it generates.
You can ask ChatGPT anything you like, if it can’t help or do what you ask, it will tell you. The best way to learn how to use it is to play with it. Here are a few suggestions to get you started. Copy and paste these into ChatGPT to see what you get:
- Create me an image of a basket in a supermarket for food donations for a foodbank charity.
- Give me idea’s on how we can increase food donations to our food bank.
- We are running a ‘Name the Teddy Competition’, give me a list of 50 different names people can pick from to guess the name of our teddy bear.
- We are a UK charity looking for suitable grants to expand our services. Can you give me a list of suitable grants?
What can a charity use ChatGPT for?
There are so many things that you can use ChatGPT for to help your charity, from creating documents, policies, forms and content to using it to help brainstorm and spur ideas. Here are just some of the way’s in which you can use ChatGPT as a charity:
- Upload complex documents and ask ChatGPT to review and summarise.
- Upload and ask ChatGPT to review your documents for compliance and summarise issues.
- Create content quickly for your website, marketing materials or social media channels.
- Create images to support your content.
- Review your grant applications and ask for ways to strengthen your application.
- Help rewrite an email to sound better, or write a delicate email to resolve an issue.
- Review large sets of data and provide a summary.
- Create presentations based on data submitted
- Enhance donor engagement
- Use it for guidance, tell it your problems and ask for help on how to resolve.
- Tell ChatGPT about your specific charity and ask how it thinks it can help you
What should I know about ChatGPT in relation to entering/sharing our data?
You should avoid uploading personnel data to ChatGPT. If you want ChatGPT to create something on the back of your data, you should anonymise it before uploading it.
On the free and standard paid version OpenAI uses interactions to train and improve its models unless you opt out. This means your data may be stored and reviewed by authorised personnel. While OpenAI takes steps to anonymise data, sensitive or confidential information should generally not be shared. All data in transit is encrypted.
You can however upgrade an an organisation to the ‘Enterprise’ version. This provides some additional assurances such as interactions are not used to train and improve its models. Additionally Enterprise access enables the addition of customised security measures.
Need further information or help?
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