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Jun 10, 2025

New Blog Series on Artificial Intelligence

Everywhere you look these days there are articles and posts forecasting the new world order that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will bring to our nonprofit world. These forecasts are both positive (AI will make our sector more efficient and economical) and negative (AI will disemploy thousands).

At the same time, companies are spending literally billions on infrastructure and technologies to ensure they are on the winning side of the AI race.

As an analytics company, it’s critical for us at Analytical Ones to keep up with technological advances so we can leverage them to bring better fundraising strategies to our clients. But it is also important to separate the true value of these technologies from all the hype they tend to generate.

This will be a 7-part series, exploring AI with the following blogs:

  1. A Brief History of Other “Game Changing” Technologies.
  2. Accessibility Challenges of AI.
  3. Privacy Concerns of AI.
  4. Complexities of Implementing AI.
  5. Why Algorithm Bias Matters.
  6. Environmental Consequences of AI.
  7. How Analytical Ones Utilizes AI.

We look forward to hearing your thoughts on these matters in this blog series.

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Part VII: How Analytical Ones Will be Using AI

Over the past couple of weeks, I have written about some potential effects that AI will have on the nonprofit sector. Today, I’m going to end this series on how we as a company intend to use AI. There’s no doubt there is a certain “wow-factor” using AI. It’s like Star...

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