Microsoft Copilot is an AI-powered assistant that was released for nonprofits in early November 2023. So far, it has been a revolutionary tool across all sectors, and the nonprofit sector is no exception.
The benefits of Microsoft Copilot for charities include improved communication across departments, enhanced productivity, increased output through context-aware suggestions, reduced human error, and more.
Nonprofits face unique challenges in terms of resources, time, and expertise. Copilot can help nonprofits overcome these challenges and help them deliver their mission more effectively.
In this blog post, we will explore the benefits of Microsoft Copilot for nonprofits. Let’s dive right in!
While Microsoft Copilot offers many benefits to nonprofits as well as businesses. Nonprofits face unique challenges in terms of resources, time, and expertise. Copilot can help nonprofits overcome their challenges of limited resources, time and expertise and help them deliver their mission more effectively. In this blog post, we will explore the benefits of Microsoft Copilot for nonprofits, let’s dive right in!
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What is Microsoft Copilot?
Microsoft Copilot is a generative AI tool that uses Large Language Models (LLM) to interact with your organisational data and suggest relevant code snippets, functions, and methods to complete a task.
Copilot allows your nonprofit staff to use natural language to set a prompt and from this, it will give you a response that will offer helpful suggestions, content or actions.
Copilot works across all Microsoft 365 apps and integrates into popular code editors like Visual Studio Code and GitHub’s Atom, making it accessible to a wide range of developers. With its advanced capabilities and seamless integration with existing workflows, Microsoft Copilot is a powerful tool for delivering high-quality code more efficiently and enhancing productivity across all types of day-to-day tasks.
Microsoft Copilot Benefits for Nonprofits
Whether you’re working to end poverty, protect the planet, or support your local community, AI can give your chairity efforts a real boost.
Here are just a few ways Copilot can support your charity’s mission:
- Seamless Integration: Copilot within Your Favourite Microsoft 365 Apps
- Enhanced Productivity and Efficiency
- Powerful Data Analysis and Insights
- Stronger Donor Connections, Smarter Fundraising
- Custom AI Assistants with Copilot Studio
Seamless Integration: Copilot within Your Favourite Microsoft 365 Apps
Copilot can be integrated with several Microsoft 365 for Charities apps, making it a powerful tool for nonprofit staff and volunteers to use. Let’s find out more about how Copilot integrates with other Microsoft apps.
Using Microsoft Copilot in Word
Copilot can help nonprofit staff and volunteers write documents faster and more accurately. It will analyse the text and offer suggestions on how to complete the document. Another way it can help to write documents faster is when there is an incomplete sentence, Copilot will suggest ways to finish the thought. It can also suggest synonyms, rewording, grammar corrections and even paragraphs.
Using Copilot in Word can help your nonprofit organisation save time and improve accuracy and clarity. Copilot makes it easier for your organisation to create fundraising or grant plans in Word with ease.
Check out this blog to find out how nonprofits can leverage AI for fundraising.
Using Microsoft Copilot in Excel
Microsoft Copilot can also help create and manage spreadsheets more efficiently in Excel. Copilot will analyse your spreadsheet data and offer intelligible answers, suggest ways to extrapolate pertinent data and help streamline work processes overall. It can also help with common tasks such as formatting data, sorting, filtering, and even creating pivot tables. With Copilot, your organisation can format data, sort, filter and complete budget spreadsheets with ease, reducing the chance of human error.
For new users of Excel, Copilot can be useful for users as they may not be familiar with all of its features. By using Copilot in Excel, staff and volunteers can increase their productivity and focus on the creative aspects of spreadsheet design rather than getting bogged down in the details.
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Using Microscoft Copilot in Teams
Copilot can also be used on Microsoft Teams to help with productivity and collaboration. Copilot can analyse any text entered in a chat or Teams area and suggest helpful responses and actions to aid the conversation. It can also suggest relevant files or information to share with your nonprofit team members.
Additionally, Copilot can streamline meetings by suggesting agenda items, recording notes and generating summaries. Your nonprofit team can work more efficiently by automating many of the administrative tasks that can take up valuable time.
Using Microsoft Copilot in Powerpoint
Microsoft Copilot can be used on PowerPoint to help create engaging and visual presentations. Copilot will look at the content on each slide and suggest relevant images, charts and graphs. It can also provide suggestions for formatting, layout and animations to enhance the presentation.
Copilot on PowerPoint can your organisation with content creation by suggesting wording and phrases to include on slides. Staff and volunteers can save time and improve the overall quality of their presentations with ease.
Using Microsoft Copilot with Dynamics 365 Marketing
Copilot is being released across Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit, it is also available on Microsoft 365 Dynamics Marketing. If your charity is using Dynamics 365 Marketing, Coplit can help target your funding audience by suggesting ways to personalise and tailor messages to target them. Copilot can analyse the content of marketing materials and suggest images, videos, and other visual elements that can enhance the message being conveyed.
With Copilot, nonprofits can create more engaging and effective marketing campaigns in Dynamics 365 Marketing. This will help to drive donations, increase engagement, and achieve their mission objectives.
Enhanced Productivity and Efficiency
Nonprofits rarely have time or hands to spare. That’s where Copilot can make a difference. It can support charity employees handling the small stuff, like pulling together summaries of long reports, writing rough drafts for emails and updates, or helping schedule meetings. By taking care of these everyday tasks, it gives staff and volunteers more breathing room to do what really matters: running fundraising campaigns, connecting with donors, and making a difference on the ground.
Powerful Data Analysis and Insights
Nonprofits deal with a lot of data, from programme stats, donor details, and beneficiary records. Copilot, especially when used with tools like Excel, makes it easier to make sense of it all. It can help analyse this data more efficiently, identify trends, visualise outcomes, and generate reports. This data-driven approach can lead to more informed decision-making and a clearer understanding of the impact you’re having.
Stronger Donor Connections, Smarter Fundraising
Keeping donors engaged takes more than a thank-you note. Copilot can help nonprofits craft tailored messages, spot giving trends, and shape outreach that actually resonates. It’s also a great tool to assist with grant writing, helping teams put together clear, compelling proposals.
Custom AI Assistants with Copilot Studio
One of the great benefits of Microsoft Copilot is the possibility to create custom AI assistants in Copilot Studio. Microsoft Copilot AI Agents are virtual assistantstailored to the specific needs of your charity. Whether it’s helping volunteers find the right resources, guiding beneficiaries step-by-step through an application, or answering common questions on your website, these assistants can take care of the routine stuff so your team can focus on what really matters.
Microsoft Copilot Live Demo: Exploring the Future of Productivity with CoPilot
Users can access a limited version of CoPilot for free. However, the full Copilot solution is available on Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard, and Business Premium licensing.
Microsoft does not currently offer any discounted pricing for CoPilot for nonprofits. Learn more about the CoPilot pricing structure.
Final Thoughts on Microsoft Copilot for Nonprofits
In conclusion, Microsoft Copilot is a great and powerful tool for nonprofits looking to streamline processes and drive engagement. Copilot’s AI-powered intuitive interface can help organisations automate time-consuming tasks, generate data-driven insights and collaborate more effectively. Whether your organisation is working in fundraising, programme management, or another area of nonprofit work, Copilot has something to offer.
Find out more about how Microsoft 365 Copilot can benefit your nonprofit.
