As a marketing or communications professional at a community foundation, you’re always on the lookout for ways to make your job easier and your efforts more impactful.
AI is here to help you streamline your work, from creating content to analyzing data, allowing you to focus on what matters most—driving community impact.
Here are 10 AI tools that can immediately make a difference in how you communicate and engage with fundholders, donors, nonprofit partners, financial advisors and more.
Important! For all Generative AI tools, especially large language models like ChatGPT, never publish publicly anything ChatGPT generates without reading and reviewing the content, validating the information, and running it by your team.
AI Tools for Your Team
1. ChatGPT
If you’re juggling multiple writing projects, ChatGPT is like having a virtual assistant by your side. Whether you need help drafting press releases, social media posts, or even newsletters, this AI tool delivers human-like text in seconds. You can brainstorm ideas, get rough drafts, or refine existing content, making your workload lighter and faster to manage.
Why You’ll Love It.
If you’re working with a lean team or tight deadlines, ChatGPT gives you the extra bandwidth to produce high-quality, professional content without the hassle of multiple revisions.
2. Google Gemini Pro
Managing and analyzing large amounts of content can feel overwhelming, especially when you’re dealing with donor reports, impact videos, or extensive research. Google Gemini Pro is designed to help you tackle these challenges by processing up to 700,000 words or hours of multimedia content. Whether you’re diving into documents or video footage, this tool simplifies your review process, saving you hours of time.
Why You’ll Love It.
With Gemini, you can sift through complex information quickly, giving you the insights you need to make faster decisions and create stronger, data-driven communications.
3. Claude Sonnet
Consistency in your messaging is key, especially when you’re trying to engage donors and stakeholders across different platforms. Claude Sonnet helps you maintain that consistency by learning from your best-performing content and mimicking your community foundation’s unique voice. Whether you’re creating grant announcements, newsletters, or impact reports, Claude ensures everything sounds like it’s coming from the same trusted source.
Why You’ll Love It.
Claude saves you time by producing high-quality, on-brand content that matches the voice you’ve worked hard to cultivate. It’s like having your top writer on call whenever you need them.
4. Perplexity
Research is a crucial part of your role, whether you’re writing an impact report or crafting a campaign strategy. Perplexity is an AI-powered search tool that supercharges your research, helping you find relevant data and insights faster than traditional search engines.
Why You’ll Love It.
Perplexity cuts your research time in half, giving you more time to focus on what you do best – telling your community foundation’s story and creating campaigns that resonate.
5. Jasper
Creating content that’s both high-quality and aligned with your foundation’s mission can be a challenge, especially when you’re stretched thin. Jasper is an AI content creation platform that integrates your community foundation’s knowledge base to generate on-brand content quickly. Whether you’re writing blog posts, emails, or website copy, Jasper helps you create messaging that stays true to your goals and resonates with your audience.
Why You’ll Love It.
Jasper helps you streamline content creation, freeing you up to focus on strategy while ensuring your organization’s message stays consistent and impactful.
6. Descript
If you’re working with video or audio content, editing can take a lot of time and expertise. Descript makes editing simple by allowing you to point and click to create polished videos or podcasts. You can focus on storytelling rather than the technical side of production, and produce professional-quality multimedia content that showcases your impact.
Why You’ll Love It.
Descript empowers you to create engaging video or audio content without needing advanced editing skills. You can easily repurpose interviews, event recordings, or impact stories into shareable, polished media.
7. OpusClip
Your community foundation likely has hours of valuable video footage from events, interviews, or reports. OpusClip allows you to turn those long videos into short, engaging clips that you can share on social media, newsletters, or your website – saving you time and helping you repurpose existing content.
Why You’ll Love It.
OpusClip helps you maximize your video content. It allows you to create bite-sized clips that grab your audience’s attention and increase engagement without requiring a lot of extra effort.
8. rasa.io
Sending personalized newsletters to your donors, partners, or community members is a great way to keep them engaged, but customizing content for every subscriber can feel like a monumental task. Rasa.io makes it easy by using AI to automatically personalize newsletters based on each reader’s preferences and behaviors.
Why You’ll Love It.
You can send out newsletters that feel personal to each recipient, without spending hours customizing content. It’s a powerful way to keep your audience engaged and invested in your foundation’s work.
9. Lately
Social media can be time-consuming, but it’s a critical part of staying connected with your community. Lately helps you generate social media posts automatically from your existing content, so you can maintain an active presence with minimal effort.
Why You’ll Love It.
You don’t have to struggle to keep up with posting. Lately lets you repurpose blog posts, articles, or reports into social media content, ensuring you stay visible and relevant without spending all day on social.
10. Crayon
Keeping tabs on other nonprofits, foundations, or trends in the sector can help you stay ahead of the curve. Crayon allows you to track competitors’ online activity, including website changes, new initiatives, and more. This insight can help you refine your strategies and stay informed about what’s happening in your community or at the national level with commercial banks.
Why You’ll Love It.
Crayon gives you a competitive edge, helping you make informed decisions to adjust your strategy based on real-time insights from your peers and competitors.
Simplify Your Day-to-Day
By using AI tools like these, you can simplify your day-to-day tasks, allowing you to focus more on building relationships, telling compelling stories, and driving greater impact for your organization.
Whether you’re creating content, managing campaigns, or personalizing communications, these tools are designed to make your work easier and more effective.
At Foundation Voice, we’re continuously testing out new technology, including many of the tools listed above, to see how we can improve our work and be more impactful storytellers.
Start exploring new today to see how they can help your foundation achieve its communication goals more efficiently. Or, reach out to see how we can help.
