Girl Effect's AI-powered chatbot, Big Sis, reaches girls in South Africa, India, and Kenya at scale through platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Big Sis offers a private online space where girls can access trusted and non-judgmental advice on critical topics such as sex, STIs, HIV prevention, and mental health.

With a user base of half a million, Girl Effect's chatbot has garnered notable recognition, including being finalists for the Fast Company 2022 World Changing Idea Award, shortlisted for the 2022 GLOMO Award in the category of Best Mobile Innovation for Emerging Markets, recipients of the Global Digital Health Innovation Award 2022, and winners of the Shorty Award 2023. Since 2020, Girl Effect has harnessed the power of AI to process and understand low-resource, mixed-coded languages such as Hinglish (Hindi+English) and Kenyan Sheng, enabling the chatbot to address girls' questions at scale.

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Imagine a world where everyone could access and converse with a philanthropic advisor as easily as they can today conduct a search for a charity. At Giving Compass we believe that the current strengths of AI & LLMs such as translation, language generation to explain complex concepts, or organic conversational search, can begin to make that dream a reality. We'll share what we've learned in our research on donor search and content preferences in the age of AI and our learnings from building tools that provide AI-driven philanthropic advice and donor education.

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Join Dan Lammot, CEO of threshold.world, to hear about lessons learned from b.world customers leveraging generative AI to design more effective impact programs.

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If you've been paying attention, you know AI is at the forefront of curbing poverty and pollution, improving healthcare and education, and making life easier for the world's most vulnerable. The organizations behind these advancements? AI-powered nonprofits (APNs). What are AI-powered nonprofits, you ask? They are “nonprofits deploying AI to tackle humanity's biggest challenges.”

In this session, the Good Tech Fest audience will explore AI in the nonprofit sector. Across poverty, climate change, health inequities, racial injustices, audience members will gain an understanding of how nonprofits are deploying AI to reach scaled impact faster.

Get inspired by the possibilities AI unlocks and learn how it is making a positive impact on humanity!

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Surveys are a powerful tool for collecting feedback from your program participants, volunteers, and supporters. With the vast number of tools available, creating surveys has never been easier. Crafting surveys that deliver reliable and actionable insights require the right preparation. It starts with quality design. In this session, you will learn tips and strategies to design user-friendly and accessible surveys that generate reliable and useful data.

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The Data Solutions team at the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation develops open-source, public good data and AI products to foster a collaborative and sustainable community of practice around these solutions. We are currently developing Grant Guardian, an AI solution to streamline financial due diligence for grantmakers evaluating nonprofits. Conducting thorough due diligence is crucial but often challenging due to limited resources, lack of financial expertise, inconsistent reporting standards, and potential biases. Grant Guardian aims to alleviate these challenges by automatically extracting and analyzing financial information from nonprofits' financial documents.

In this workshop, we share learnings from researching and developing two key information extraction techniques for this product: 1) Providing full-text financial documents as context to large language models (LLMs), and 2) Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), which combines LLMs with information retrieval systems. We discuss the pros and cons of each approach, evaluating factors such as accuracy, cost, and complexity. Additionally, we provide recommendations on the most suitable techniques for different use cases, empowering attendees to leverage AI effectively to extract information from large texts.

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Session about social data science and AI's applications for social and environmental challenges. With use case examples that we have applied from the Trust for the Americas, and methodologies and resources for the future of data-powered social projects.

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This session will demonstrate the work that Malala Fund and ImpactMapper are doing together leveraging storytelling and technology in building an effective monitoring, evaluation and learning system for the foundation. Malala Fund will share a few powerful examples of case studies from their grant report data that demonstrate how to use storytelling and the ImpactMapper platform for MEL. Participants will walk away with a greater appreciation and tools for using storytelling, qualitative analysis, and the importance of responsible AI.

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Join Jean Westrick, Executive Director for Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) for a presentation of its groundbreaking "Responsible AI Adoption in Philanthropy" framework. A collaborative effort between TAG and Project Evident, this framework was released in December 2023 with the goal of providing essential guidance on the responsible and equitable use of artificial intelligence (AI) within grantmaking organizations.

Who Should Attend:

Grantmaking Executives

Philanthropy Tech Professionals

Program Managers

Technology Leaders

AI for Good Enthusiasts and Advocates

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Technology’s moving pretty fast, and it’s hard to keep up! Do you feel the pressure to learn learn learn all the new software programs? Me too.

In this session, we’ll take advantage of software we already have: Microsoft Excel. You’ll learn how to design interactive dashboards in Excel in just 30 minutes.

Need quick stats for your upcoming meeting? Excel can handle that. Need quick charts for your upcoming report deadline? Excel can handle that.

No fancy software needed. No extra licenses to pay for. No coding skills required.

The speaker will share her screen and show you four underused features of Excel:

(1) First, you’ll learn why we should use Excel Tables to store our datasets. We usually export spreadsheets from our nonprofit’s database, or from our foundation’s database. Once those datasets go into Excel, you’ll see why Excel Tables have special features that save our future selves time, and allow us to automate our recurring tables and charts.

(2) Second, you’ll learn how to tabulate those datasets with Pivot Tables. Pivot Tables are a must-have Excel skill, especially for beginner and intermediate users, because they allow us to get quick stats without having to learn any complicated formulas.

(3) Third, you’ll learn how to create Excel Charts, which are easy to format, customize, and update over time.

(4) Finally, you’ll link these features together – Excel Tables, Pivot Tables, and Pivot Charts – with a filter called a Slicer. Slicers let us explore the tables and charts. For example, you can use drop-down menus or check-all-that-apply buttons to just look at this quarter’s data. Or, we might just look at one demographic group at a time to see where our projects are having the most impact.

Beginners, if you don’t recognize these terms yet, this session is for you! You’ll see what’s possible inside good ol’ Excel, which can take the pressure off to learn or purchase anything new. Intermediates, if you’re already using some of these features (maybe you’re already making pivot tables?), this session is for you! We’ll go a step further to link all these four features together and create an interactive dashboard.

Data visualization isn’t supposed to take all day. Data visualization isn’t supposed to be costly. Data visualization isn’t just for people with computer science degrees. Anyone in the social sector can get better insights about the impact of our work, even with everyday software like Excel.

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In this session, Grey-box.ca 's team explores the challenges and opportunities of promoting multilingual access to information on platforms like Wikipedia. We'll delve into Project Symmetry, a pioneering initiative that leverages machine learning to bridge the gap in knowledge accessibility for under-represented languages.

Key Takeaways:

Understand the significance of multilingual access to information on Wikipedia and beyond.

Discover the potential of machine learning for enhancing translation accuracy and expanding knowledge availability in diverse languages.

Explore the ethical considerations and real-world applications of AI for social good.

Gain insights into Project Symmetry's approach and its impact on promoting inclusivity and equity in access to information.

This session is ideal for:

Individuals passionate about language and information access.

Professionals interested in the applications of AI for social good.

Anyone seeking to understand how technology can bridge the digital divide and promote knowledge equity.

Join us for an engaging exploration of Project Symmetry and how Grey-box.ca is empowering underrepresented languages and fostering a more inclusive information landscape.

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Join Calvin for an interactive workshop where organizations, both large and small, can unlock the potential of AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) to create their own ChatGPT-like applications. Discover how to extract proprietary data insights, accelerate data-driven decision-making, boost productivity, and drive innovation across industries.

What do you need to know before building your own app? There’s a lot of code behind the OpenAI chat box. Calvin will review real-world examples and share best practices for how to:

- Master data gathering and extraction from multiple sources, including the challenging realm of PDFs.

- Build an AI framework using Django and htmx, integrating powerful AI models from OpenAI, LangChain, and Llama Index.

- Test the framework to enhance the accuracy and relevancy of responses.

- Transform data into a format that AI "bots" can understand and learn from.

As a bonus, all attendees will gain access to a GitHub repository packed with Python code (the 'lingua franca of AI') and ChatGPT-like app examples ready to be spun up on-site or remotely. Get ready to delve into the world of AI and transform your organization like never before!

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We’re living through a period of increasingly intense and frequent crises, demanding more than ever from humanitarian and social impact organizations. Climate and conflict, food insecurity and migration, and backsliding on human rights. These often interconnected challenges loom too large for any one organization to solve.

In this session, Dataminr’s VP of Social Good, Jessie End, will be joined by Direct Relief's VP of Research and Analysis, Andrew Shroeder, the United Nations Human Rights' Technology Advisor, George Hodge, the International Organization for Migration's Data Analyst, Andrea Garcia Borja, and Ushahidi's Executive Director, Angela Oduor Longati to explore how close and open collaboration between tech firms and social impact orgs can deliver scalable solutions to match the challenges of today.

The conversation will focus on how organizations can leverage AI technologies and expertise to improve workflow efficiencies and enable more rapid and informed response and proactive policy decisions. We will also discuss the importance of principle-based innovation and partnerships, highlighting specific examples of this type of partnership in action.

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