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About This Workshop

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Our AI for Nonprofits webinar showed you what's possible. This workshop is where you put it into p ractice. Join Management Advisory Services for a h ands-on afternoon session with MAS consultants and fellow nonprofit practitioners — sharing what's w orking\, what's not\, and experimenting together w ith AI tools in real nonprofit contexts.

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This is an interactive\, participatory session. Come ready to share your own experience and leave with practical techniques you can use immediately .  Bring a laptop or your phone so you can try som e prompts and tools and get some hands on exprienc e.   If you want to share documents like strategic plans\, make sure your device has access.

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Workshop Agenda

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AI in Strategi c Planning and Fundraising

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Pr esenter: Sue Pulfer\, MAS Consultant

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Sue shares how she's integrating AI into s trategic planning and fundraising projects — with live examples and hands-on exercises participants can try with their own work.

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AI in Fundrais ing and Internal Operations

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P resenter: Brian Flett\, MAS Consultant

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Brian walks through how he has gone beyo nd just chatting with AI\, and has started to buil d AI Agents for doing background tasks like survey ing the internet for updates about prospective don ors\, creating a daily summary of tasks\, meetings \, and news items\, and creating a weekly review o f courses and youtube videos that can help in keep ing up with the latest trends.

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Peer Sharing: What Are You Usi ng AI For?

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A facilitated discussion w here participants share their own AI experiments — what they've tried\, what surprised them\, and wh ere they're stuck.

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Wrap-Up: What We'r e Learning as a Sector

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Key takeaways\ , emerging patterns\, and a look at where AI adopt ion in the nonprofit sector is heading.

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DESCRIPTION:About This Workshop\n \n \n Our AI for Nonprofits webinar (https://www.masadvise.org/services-financ e-and-info-tech/#ai) showed you what's possible. T his workshop is where you put it into practice. Jo in Management Advisory Services for a hands-on aft ernoon session with MAS consultants and fellow non profit practitioners — sharing what's working\, wh at's not\, and experimenting together with AI tool s in real nonprofit contexts.\n \n \n \n This is a n interactive\, participatory session. Come ready to share your own experience and leave with practi cal techniques you can use immediately.  Bring a l aptop or your phone so you can try some prompts an d tools and get some hands on exprience.   If you want to share documents like strategic plans\, mak e sure your device has access.\n \n \n \n Workshop Agenda\n \n \n AI in Strategic Planning and Fundr aising\n \n \n Presenter: Sue Pulfer\, MAS Consult ant\n \n \n \n Sue shares how she's integrating AI into strategic planning and fundraising projects — with live examples and hands-on exercises partic ipants can try with their own work.\n \n \n \n \n AI-assisted SWOT analysis and environmental scann ing\n Drafting strategic plans and operational pl ans with AI support\n Hands-on exercise: bring a planning challenge and work through it with AI\n \ n \n AI in Fundraising and Internal Operations\n \ n \n Presenter: Brian Flett\, MAS Consultant\n \n \n \n Brian walks through how he has gone beyond j ust chatting with AI\, and has started to build AI Agents for doing background tasks like surveying the internet for updates about prospective donors\ , creating a daily summary of tasks\, meetings\, a nd news items\, and creating a weekly review of co urses and youtube videos that can help in keeping up with the latest trends.\n \n \n \n \n Adding t ools to give AI access to calendars\, emails\, etc \n Adding skills to tell AI how to do complex rep eatable tasks\n Creating background jobs so AI ca n work autonomously\n \n \n Peer Sharing: What Are You Using AI For?\n \n \n A facilitated discussio n where participants share their own AI experiment s — what they've tried\, what surprised them\, and where they're stuck.\n \n \n \n Wrap-Up: What We' re Learning as a Sector\n \n \n Key takeaways\, em erging patterns\, and a look at where AI adoption in the nonprofit sector is heading.\n \n \n \n Who Should Attend\n \n \n \n Nonprofit practitioners who have started experimenting with AI and want t o go deeper\n Consultants supporting nonprofits w ho want to compare notes with peers\n Anyone who attended our AI for Nonprofits webinars and is rea dy for hands-on practice\n Nonprofit executives c urious about embedding AI into their team's daily work\n \n \n  \n CATEGORIES:Workshop CALSCALE:GREGORIAN DTSTAMP;TZID=America/Toronto:20260604T153000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260604T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260604T180000 LOCATION:227 Bloor Street East (St. Paul's Bloor Street)\n Toronto\, ON M4W 1C8\n Canada\n URL:https://www.masadvise.org/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=30 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR