# The Smart Nonprofit: Staying Human–Centered in An Automated World

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/books/the-smart-nonprofit-staying-human-centered-in-an-automated-world/
- Published: 2021-12-07T08:22:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Artificial intelligence is here to stay. In fact, it will almost certainly be 
more widely implemented across multiple silos within numerous industries rather 
than scaled back or done away with. It has even made its way into the nonprofit 
sector, a traditionally human-centred industry. **

Still, in order to use AI smartly and strategically, nonprofits and the people who
lead them need a good understanding of what AI is, how it operates, what could go
wrong, and perhaps most importantly, how to create a balance between technology 
automated tasks and those done by humans.

It is critically important that organisations serving people are human-centred, 
meaning they elicit input from a variety of stakeholders to create a common understanding
of the mission and goals of the organisation.

Human-centred organisations are also more interested and invested in building relationships
inside and outside the organisation than racing through people in transactional 
ways.

This book provides nonprofit staffers and board members with the information, grounding,
and tools for navigating the use of AI. Every chapter has a narrative discussion
of how AI affects a functional area within an organisation with case studies and
practical tips for the effective and ethical use of AI.

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## More books from Beth Kanter

[The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout](https://fundraising.co.uk/books/happy-healthy-nonprofit-strategies-impact-without-burnout/)

[Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World](https://fundraising.co.uk/books/measuring-the-networked-nonprofit-using-data-to-change-the-world/)

[The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change](https://fundraising.co.uk/books/the-networked-nonprofit-connecting-with-social-media-to-drive-change/)(
with Allison H Fine)

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