AI + Automation for Nonprofits Solving 3 Everyday Fundraising Challenges
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Morgan Science, Senior Product Education Manager at JotForm, presented strategies for nonprofits to address three key fundraising challenges using AI and automation: donor turnover, administrative overload, and event management. With over 60% of donors lapsing, the session highlighted using generative AI to create personalized messaging for different donor segments and to draft newsletters between gifts, while AI agents can act as 24/7 fundraisers to answer FAQs and solicit donations directly via text and email. A case study of the Illinois Institute of Technology demonstrated the effectiveness of this approach, showing that a virtual engagement officer raised over $2.7 million in its first year by engaging donors directly.
Beyond donor relations, automation significantly reduces the burden of manual processing for acknowledgments, grant writing, and data management. AI can draft personalized thank-you messages requiring only human review, generate first drafts of grant proposals, and identify gaps in applications to improve success rates, while also handling frequent donor questions regarding taxes or donation processes to reduce back-and-forth emails. Furthermore, AI agents serve as event assistants to handle registration, answer logistics FAQs, send reminders, and accept pre-event donations, with a user example from the Burgess Group demonstrating that using an AI agent saved hundreds of dollars per event and freed staff time for more strategic tasks.
The presentation included a demonstration of JotForm's platform capabilities, showcasing its drag-and-drop form builder with over 40 payment integrations, conditional logic to tailor forms based on responses, and robust automation workflows for approvals and PDF generation. Data management features allow teams to track submissions, filter data, and create visual reports, while AI agents can be customized via prompts and trained with specific knowledge bases to connect directly to donation forms. The session also addressed practical questions regarding transferring forms from other platforms via URL import or PDF upload, embedding AI agents on websites using iframe options, and integrating form responses into Notion through pre-built Zaps or Zapier.
Finally, the discussion covered file management strategies where uploaded documents can be stored in JotForm's inbox or tables by default, but users can configure notifications to email teams and set up integrations to automatically send copies to Google Drive, Google Sheets, or Excel for easy download. The session concluded with an invitation to try the free account for full functionality, noting that limits are only applied to the number of forms and agents, while providing resources for nonprofit discounts and further learning. The presenter thanked the TechSoup team for hosting the event and offered 24/7 support assistance for any technical issues regarding new features or integrations.
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Great. Thank you, Artha. Uh, and hi
everyone. Welcome. So, good to hear what
everybody has been up to today already.
Uh, so as Artha mentioned, my name is
Morgan Science. I am the senior product
education manager at Jot Form. Very
excited to uh to be here speaking to you
all and thanks to TechUp for having me.
So, my goal here today is to discuss
some of the most common fundraising
frustrations and look at how you can use
AI and automation to tackle them. As you
are well aware, giving season is right
around the corner. So, this is a good
time to start thinking about how to
engage your donors and streamline
administrative tasks so that you can
focus on what matters most. This session
should leave you with some practical
tools and practical steps that you can
use to make this year's giving season
and all of your campaigns more
productive than ever before. Now, before
we dive into that, uh for anybody who's
not familiar with Jot Form, I just want
to give a quick introduction to who we
are. We are a workflow and data
management platform, fully no code, so
very easy to build and create. We help
organizations create forms, automate
automate repetitive tasks, streamline uh
data management and securely manage data
all without needing any technical
expertise. So whether you are gathering
donations, accepting volunteer
applications,
registering attendees for an event,
collecting client information,
requesting feedback, pretty much
everything you're doing, Jot Form brings
all of those processes together in one
place. Thousands of nonprofits already
use Jot Form to streamline everyday
tasks through features like automated
workflows, e- signature, online payment
collection, approvals, integrations with
tools you already use, and AI powered
features that can help you build forms
and everything else you need in the
system, analyze responses, and answer
answer questions more efficiently.
To better support nonprofits, we offer a
50% discount on individual nonprofit
plans. So you can visit
jotform.com/nonprofit
to learn more about that. We also offer
a 30% discount on our enterprise level
plans. And if you'd like to check out
Jot Form for free, you can also do that
at jotform.com.
Sign up for a free account. It has all
of the functionality of our paid
accounts. So you can get a sense of what
you can do with Jot Form and take it
from there.
Okay. So let's get into today's
headaches and solutions. Uh, I'm going
to start with something that probably
doesn't need to be said. Fundraising is
hard and it might be harder now than
it's ever been in the past. You are
probably do trying to do more with less
and uh maybe juggling things like donor
acquisition and retention strategies,
admin overload and staff burnout, events
and campaigns, and trying to build
deeper relationships with your community
with fewer resources available to do so.
The good news here is that AI and
automation aren't just buzzwords.
They're actual practical tools and
strategies that you can use. And today,
I'm going to talk about exactly how they
can solve some of your biggest
fundraising headaches. To do that, I
also have some examples from Jot Form
Enterprise users and practical
takeaways, including some actual AI
prompts you can use. And then in the
second half of the session after I'm
done with slides, I'll go out into Jot
Form and show you how you can actually
use Jot Form to do some of the
automations, perform some of the tasks
that I'll be talking about today. We
will have time for questions at the end.
I'm also going to try to keep an eye on
questions as we go, but uh yeah, free
feel free to share any questions that
come up as we go.
So, our first headache is uh donor
turnover. first of three headaches. Over
60% of donors don't donate again.
Frustration around laps donors is
probably compounded by how much effort
it takes to earn those donations in the
first place. It takes a lot more effort
to earn new donors than it does to
retain donors. Now, sometimes donors
lapse because of circumstances outside
of their control and yours. And chances
are that if they have to cancel a
donation that they usually give every
year because of personal circumstances,
they're just as upset about that as you
might be. But outside of life events,
donors largely lapse because they don't
see the value in their donation. And
that is within your control. That can be
easily remedied with personalized
messaging at the right moments. And
that's where AI and automation can come
in when it comes to your donor
management.
First, let's talk about tools like uh
about generative AI tools like chat GBT
and Claude and how they can help. So,
one key to boosting donor engagement
with limited resources is to take
advantage of AI and automation tools to
create personalized messaging at all
stages of the donor journey. You can ask
these tools to build donor personas to
tailor messaging by uh and to tailor
messaging by the segments. You can ask
tools how your fundraising emails can be
improved based on various segments uh
like first-time donors, recurring
donors, large gift donors, and more. And
then use those suggestions to improve
your messaging. And as you can see on
the screen here, I did use uh chat GPT
to do a quick example here. I gave a
one-s sentence prompt that asked for a
short message for donors tailored to
different audiences. You can see the
lapse donor message here, but there's
also messages for one-time donors and
high-v value donors.
[clears throat]
Another strategy is to use generative AI
tools to keep donors informed between
donations. So, not just when you're
looking for uh for donations. These
tools, Chad GBT, Claude, other
generative AI tools can be used to write
newsletters, blog posts, campaign
updates, and thank you notes, all
personalized to various different types
of donors, keeping those donors engaged
between gifts.
AI and automation can be the foundation
for creating an engaged donor database
that consistently feels uh valued and
informed, that is uh resonating with
your story, and feels invested in making
a contribution.
There are two ways that Jot Form can
help with this as well. So, one is
custom autoresponder emails that pull in
information from the donation that you
can tailor based on what somebody has
provided in a form. Another way is by
automatically sending donor information
to your email marketing platform so that
you don't have to manually build out
lists. These features allow you to
easily message donors with thank you uh
tailored thank yous and emails without
having to manually do the work to build
out those messages.
AI can also help you evaluate and
improve the giving journey for your
donors. One way to do this is to share a
link to your donation page with an AI
platform and ask for suggestions on how
to make your page more efficient.
identifying knowledge gaps and things
that might be preventing donors from
giving. AI can also flag technical
issues, suggest stronger calls to
action, or recommend improvements based
on best practices.
And I couldn't leave this option without
a prompt. So, here's a prompt that you
can use for evaluating your donation
journey. Whatever your prompt is, AI can
help you evaluate your online presence,
whether that's for social media posts,
email newsletters, other fundraising
content, and the actual donation pages.
Now, switching from generative AI to
agentic AI, AI agents. An option here is
to create autonomous fundraising with AI
agents like virtual engagement officers
or VEOs. These are AI agents that can
tailor responses to each individual
donor. They're basically 247 virtual
fundraisers. They can solicit gifts,
answer donor questions, send reminders,
and process transactions even while your
team is offline. Jaw Form AI agents is
one option for this. Since we let you
create your own VEOs, which you can
customize to be tailored to your donors
specifically, you can train your agents
with information about your organization
to answer FAQs and to process donations.
One organization that's already seen
success with VEOs is the Illinois
University or Institute of Technology.
They created a VEO to create videos for
interactions with donors through text
and email. And the goal is to see if
donors would actually interact with
something identified as AI and if that
would actually raise money for them. The
result was very positive. They raised
over 2.7 million in the first year and
they were able to boost donations
specific uh significantly without
leaning on their staff, meaning that
staff was able to manage uh other
important responsibilities during the
same time.
All right, so moving on to our second
headache of three admin tasks. If you've
ever had to manually process donations
and acknowledgements, rewrite the same
grant proposal or track donor touch
points across spreadsheets, you know
that all of that eats up time that you
could be using to build relationships
and create additional fundraising
strategies. All the ideas that we talked
about on the last few slides don't
matter at all if your team is fully
consumed by admin tasks.
So first here I want to look at some of
the things that we just talked about and
look at how these also help reduce your
administrative burden. Chances are that
you send some kind of thank you message
or gift for gifts over a certain
threshold, but manually tracking and
responding to those can eat up a lot of
time. With generative AI and
automations, AI can draft personalized
messages. So, all you need to do is
quickly review, print, and send. And I
will pause here to say that as much as
you're using AI, there should always be
some human review there. So, still
reduces your workload. All you have to
do is review rather than writing the
whole thing. And since you can train AI
to write in your nonprofit's voice, this
uh type of automation can help you save
time donors while still retaining the
authenticity.
If you'd prefer to keep AI out of your
writing process, you can still use
automations like Jot Form's built-in
workflows to notify your team when a
high-value donation comes in so that a
member of the team can follow up. Again,
this prompts you and the team rather
than having to manually sift through
donations and it automates that process,
saving time and effort.
We talked about using AI agents for
fundraising in the last section to help
manage donations. Now, sometimes
donations aren't as smooth as entering a
credit card number. Donors might have
questions about the donation process,
how donations are used. They might have
technical difficulties with their credit
card. Uh they might have questions about
taxes and and everything else. So,
setting up an AI agent that's trained to
answer these FAQs is a helpful way to
reduce the back and forth emails with
your donors. For example, if you create
an AI agent with Jot Form, you can
upload all of your FAQ documents to
train your agent so that your agent can
answer simple questions like, "Is my
gift tax deductible?" or "Can I make
recurring donations?" This can free up
your team for other high impact work.
Plus, it'll get donors the information
that they're looking for even faster
than if they did have to go through you.
Once your donor's questions are
answered, your AI agent can direct them
straight to a donation form or even
process donations directly. So, this can
reduce a lot of the friction that causes
donors to drop off or not give uh by
minimizing the number of steps involved
in a transaction and by giving them the
information they need up front rather
than having to wait for you to respond
to something important to them.
Now, one thing we haven't talked about
yet is grant writing, but AI can help
there as well. You can use AI to
generate first drafts of grant proposals
based on prompts or past applications,
allowing you to submit more proposals
faster without sacrificing the quality
of your applications.
AI can tailor these to specific funders
by providing suggestions on how to
improve your applications. So, for
example, if you give AI the grants
application requirements, the AI can
identify gaps in your application and
suggest ways to improve it. And then you
can make improvements to give your
application a higher chance of being
selected. And since you're saving time,
you're able to submit even more
applications faster, increasing your
chances of receiving more funding.
I have another prompt for you here,
something you can actually try. So if
you use this prompt along with a grant
application and what you've already
written you the uh AI tools like chat
GPT or claude can identify areas of
improvement. So that will strengthen
your application in order to better meet
the requirements and again hopefully get
you more funding faster.
And when it comes to better
understanding your donors, AI can help
there as well. AI can provide donor
database intelligence by summarizing all
of your available data points so that
you're not working from scratch for all
of this data management. AI data
analysis can provide a quick overview of
things like how often each segment is
contacted by whom and when. It can
discover issues that are leading to
donor drop off or failed donor
retention. And it can identify new areas
where you can add automated touch points
to save your staff and volunteers time.
All right. So,
uh, now on to our third and final
headache here. Event management. Uh,
fundraising events are often high stakes
and high effort, but they're often a
chief source of revenue for nonprofits
that require a lot of time and attention
to uh to execute correctly. For events,
you're often juggling registration,
attendee questions, logistics, and
follow-up plans. All of which AI can
help with.
One solution here is to use AI agents as
event assistants.
They can take care of repetitive tasks
so that you can focus on the bigger
picture. They can do things like
registering attendees, collecting names,
emails, and dietary restrictions,
answering FAQs about directions, parking
info, start and end times. Uh, agents
can send reminder emails to people
who've registered and they can accept
donations prior to the event, further
helping boost your fundraising efforts.
We have one example of this uh from a
Jot Form Enterprise user. I don't think
they're a nonprofit, but they are an
organization that's um planning events
on the side, so that's not their
full-time job. Uh, so we have a quote
here from Drew Burgess of the Burgess
Group. Uh Drew uses Jot Form's AI agents
to answer questions about plans that he
about events that he puts on for his
community. I think they do like a
quarterly event for the uh the
neighborhood. Before using agents, the
team that works with Drew lost valuable
time answering repeated event related
questions that were coming up over and
over again. But they since made their AI
agent available on their website. The
agent is also in their newsletter and
the agent also pops up after they
register for an event. So attendees have
multiple opportunities to ask an agent
questions. This saves the company
hundreds of dollars per event and staff
time, but it also leaves more time for
the team to focus on productivity and
impact. And once again, it's getting
attendees the information they need
right away.
[sighs]
On the automation end, you can also set
up smart forms to streamline the form
filling process. And Jot Form is a tool
that can help with that in multiple
different ways. One example is to use
conditional logic to streamline and
adjust form fields and thank you pages
based on the attendee type. So whether
it's a sponsor, press, or donor, or
volunteer, they can all get a different
thank you page or a different response
based on conditional logic. This ensures
that anybody who fills out a form gets a
customized experience. That can be
especially useful when you are trying to
make donors feel valued in a way that
keeps them coming back to support your
organization and um not just in feeling
valued but in actually uh you know
valuing them and giving them as much
information as they need.
Finally, uh AI agents can also be used
in your postevent engagement. So, all of
your follow-up, you can leverage AI
tools to automatically send thank you
messages, emails, surveys, personalized
donation follow-ups based on donor
behavior, and more. So, for example, if
somebody attended your event and didn't
donate, you can send them a separate
message automatically than people who
have attended the event and did donate.
Maybe the people who didn't donate get a
prompt asking them to give a donation.
Maybe the others get a thank you or a
prompt to ask them to give a little bit
more if they can.
Okay, so all of those headaches and all
of those suggestions there. Uh at this
point, I'm going to go out into Jot Form
and give you a demo. So, let me just
share my screen once again.
And um we can do that. Hopefully, this
looks all right. Let me um I just need
to maximize the screen on my end so I
can see everything.
There we go. Okay.
So, I'm going to show a couple of
things. Uh um well, two main things. So,
I want to talk about Jot Form's form
builder. I'll also talk about our AI
agents. Most of what I just talked about
how Jot Form can help is in the form
builder. Um we do have lots of other
tools though. Uh and we also have AI
build on all of those at this point. So
the system is really easy to use and uh
you know makes your job a lot easier. Uh
so first I want to just give a quick
overview of what we're looking at here
again for anybody who might be new to
Jot Form. And I am using a paid single
user account for this demo. But uh the
layout is pretty much the same
regardless of what type of account
you're using. So whether you're using a
paid account or uh a um an enterprise
account. Sorry, I I just went to look at
the questions before I so I got a little
sidetracked by that. Um there is a
question about if the registration form
can be printed out exactly as as uh the
form is. And yes, there are a couple of
ways to do that. Um but yes, absolutely
with Jot Form you can do that. And uh
I'll try to remember to uh to to come
back to that. If I don't, we'll go back
in the Q&A. Anyway, um back to this. So,
uh first here, uh in the center of the
page are all of my active assets in Jot
Form. So, that's anything I've created
that I haven't then archived or deleted.
When I hover over, you'll see that there
are options of what I can do with that
asset. Uh up on the top here are lots of
resources, including templates for all
of our products. On the side panel here
is mostly organizational elements. And
to create any new elements, there's that
orange create button that will take you
to a page where you can choose what to
create. And most of these have multiple
different ways that you can get started.
So you can start from scratch, you can
use a template, you can use AI build.
Lots of different options there.
I'm going to use this um form here for
most of our demo. And then again, I'll
go out into an agent as well. Uh but
currently I have this form open in the
form builder. So whether you're starting
from scratch using an agent to build uh
you whatever however you've created the
form this is where you'll be when it
comes time to uh edit edit the form
share the form etc. So this is where
you're sort of like where you're
creating the form. Uh here we have three
tabs. So there's build settings and
publish. Publish is where you'll go for
all of your sharing options. The build
tab is where you'll actually create the
form that people will see and you can
preview that at any time with the toggle
over here just by toggling that on. Now,
I've used a template for this form. You
can see that it already contains most of
the fields that we would need for pet
adoption, including a time to book an
appointment, uh file uploads for any
images of maybe a yard, so we can make
sure things are fenced in, signature at
the bottom, and more. If you need to add
any additional elements, there's the add
element toolbar here. Basic, payments,
and widgets. So, all kinds of different
fields available. I mostly want to
highlight payments because this can be
very important to donations. So, here we
have about 40 different payment
integration options. Many of those have
multiple different ways that people can
pay. Basically, you'll find whatever
your payment gateway is. We don't charge
anything additional, so you're only
paying whatever you pay to the gateway.
All you need to do is drag and drop it
onto the form. You can then
authenticate, sign in, make sure both
platforms are speaking to each other.
And um when it comes to collecting
donations, it's actually really
straightforward. All you'll need to do
is customize whatever you see here. So
if you need to change the currency type
or you want to add a description, that's
all you need to do. Uh and then you can
also choose if you want people to be
able to pay in different ways. So very
easy to set up, very easy to add to any
form that you have.
Uh I also wanted to mention the form
designer over here. So this is where you
can customize your form to match your
branding. So that helps assure people
that this is a reputable form.
Especially if they're giving money, you
probably want your logo included on
there, maybe your specific colors. Uh so
you can apply whatever color scheme you
need over here. And then here you can
add a logo. You'll see also other design
options like changing the font, changing
the size of the form, etc.
Okay, I'm going to move over to the
settings tab. This is where you'll find
a lot of those automations that I talked
about in the slides. So, I'm going to go
through [clears throat] what I talked
about already, but you'll see that there
are other options here as well. So,
first I mentioned conditional logic as a
way to both streamline forms and make
sure that they are as easy and as quick
as possible for anybody filling them out
and as a way to customize the thank you
or the follow-up that people are
getting. So, if you're hosting an event
and you uh you know, you're asking if
this is, you know, somebody filling out
the form is volunteer press uh a donor,
just somebody in the community,
whatever, you can tailor your messages
to them based on that. So here for
example um we have do you have a yard
and if a person says yes I have a yard
there are follow-up questions is it
fenced in please describe it all you
need to do to add any additional
conditions is to click that button at
the top you can use AI to create those
or create on your own but I especially
wanted to highlight the change thank you
page here because that's where you would
tailor this based on the type of person
who is filling out your form. So you
have that field that asks for what type
of attendee they are and you can uh
change that thank you page based on
that.
Next I talked about um Jot Form's ways
of helping automate followups and I
mentioned two ways. So one is with an
autoresponder email. Another is with
integrating with your email marketing
platform. So talking about the
autoresponder email first here we have
two different email types. So
notification goes to you or your team
anytime somebody fills out a form. An
autoresponsor go uh autoresponder goes
to the form filler. So both of these can
be fully customized. Um this one I
played around with a little bit but by
default it's going to include all of the
fields from the form and all of the
responses. So it serves as a
confirmation to people who filled out
the form. Um, also they can check that
for errors and they can edit if needed
or get in touch with you if they want to
provide more information. Um, but all of
that can be customized as well. So you
can change fonts, colors, you can remove
fields that you don't need. You can
customize what it looks like. You can
also personalize these. So with fields
here, you can pull in fields from the
form. So if you want to include a
message at the top that says, "Thank
you, name. So much for your donation.
It's going to help do XYZ." You can pull
in the name from the form. You can pull
in any fields from the form that you'd
like.
One other thing I wanted to point out
here is in the settings below this. So,
by default, these messages will go out
immediately after somebody submits, but
you can change that in settings to go
out later. So, if you toggle send email
later, you'll see you have several
options here of when you can send that.
So, you can delay for a certain amount
of time. If you want time to approve a
donation or like double check something,
whatever. Um, if there's any reason that
you need to delay for a certain number
of hours or days, you can do that. You
can send all follow-ups at a certain
time. So, maybe at the end of your
campaign, you want to thank everybody
with an image of your like donation
thermometer or some notes about how
those donations are already used. You
can send all of the follow-up messages,
all of these autoresponders at the same
time, or you can get a value from the
form. So, if you have like an
appointment field or a date field on
your form, you can use this as a way to
send reminders or follow-ups at a
certain time.
Next, I want to move to integrations,
and I'll specifically talk about the
email integration. You can just type
whatever you're looking for at the top,
but I mentioned this as a way to
integrate with email marketing
platforms. So with Mailchimp for
example, you would authenticate, sign
into that account, allow both platforms
to speak and then you can choose what
data will go from Jot Form to Mailchimp.
But that means that you can
automatically build out whatever your
email marketing list is in Mailchimp uh
without having to manually do that work.
So that can save a lot of time and
effort. So that's automatically going
from Jot Form. You're also getting
information straight from the source. So
it also removes uh some error uh
opportunity there uh of somebody having
to re-enter information. I'm talking
about email marketing platforms here,
but there are also tons of other
integrations. So if you have a CRM that
you want to push things to or you want
to save things to cloud storage, uh
there are spreadsheet options, uh SMS
options, all kinds of different
integrations available here.
The last thing I want to talk about here
within the form itself are workflows. So
forms aren't a process in and of
themselves. Forms are part of a process.
They're usually the start of a process.
In the case of this adoption agreement
form, they are the start of somebody
getting approved for adoption. In the
case of donations, they are uh you know
the start of somebody being thanked of
somebody being uh let know how their
donation is helping. There's there's
more. you might have to approve a
donation. You know, there there's more
that happens there. And in Jot Form, you
can build all of that into the platform,
saving again this the time and effort it
would take to track people down for
signatures or follow up with people, you
know, whatever it is that you need to
do.
You can also add multiple workflows.
That's actually a brand new feature, but
in this case, I'm just going to focus on
this one that I've already created. This
is taking this pet adoption form and it
is routing it to different approvers
based on the type of pet that somebody
is trying to adopt. And then when a
person has been approved, they're being
sent a follow-up form for payment. In
addition to sending follow-up forms or
assigning tasks, as you see here, you
can send emails, you can send things for
approval or approval and signature. Um,
you can send out PDFs, so a final
version of a form response. Uh,
signature documents. So, instead of
maybe a payment form here, if you wanted
to replace that with an adoption
agreement, uh, you can do that. We have
a signature uh, product built into Jot
Form. So, that's an option as well. You
can see all of your options over here on
the left. And just like with the form
builder, you'll drag and drop them to
add them in and then connect them
wherever they need to go. Uh but for
this workflow here, you can see the uh
it starts when somebody submits this
application. Jot Form automatically
scans the application to look for the
type of a of pet somebody is looking to
adopt. And then it's automatically
assigning a task to one of three people.
So if they want a dog, it's going to the
dog person. If they want a cat, it's
going to the cat person. If they want a
guinea pig, my favorite, or rabbits or
chinchillas or whatever other animals
you have on hand, uh it's going to our
small animal person. If those people
approve the application, they are
automatically um an email is
automatically going to the person who
submitted the initial form that is
pulled in from the form. So all of this
happens with very little intervention.
These um notifications of tasks go to
the uh person's email. They can approve
from there. They don't need to sign into
a Jot Form account to do that. The uh
follow-up form will go out
automatically. Again, this saves a lot
of back and forth of having to track
down applicants, having to track down
approvals or signatures or uh assign
tasks. All of that is managed here.
The last thing I want to talk about here
related to forms is how you can manage
your data. One of the key ways to manage
data in Jot Form is with tables. Tables
get created automatically with forms.
So, you don't need to do anything to
create this. By default here, every
column is one of the fields from the
form and every row is a new form
response. You can filter, sort, browse
through things here. You can download.
You can also add additional columns at
the end if you need to add a workflow
element here. So, you need to check
people off a list or follow up with
people or if you want to uh calculate
donations uh all of their donations that
they've given over time. Again, we have
AI build options for that as well. So,
all kinds of different workflow options
here. One other thing that I want to
show here is that you can create reports
on this. So, if you have any
[clears throat] reporting needs like uh
for volunteering, if you need to uh
report on the number of days people are
available or who's available, you volume
of volunteers available on each day. for
donations. If you want a summary of all
donations, all you need to do is hit
this create button and that will
generate a report automatically with
visualizations so that you get data
visualizations for each field on your
form. And again, you can customize that
however you need, but that is saving you
a lot of work uh that goes into having
to build this from scratch.
Okay, so that's everything that I wanted
to cover for the form builder and data
management. The last thing I want to
talk about here is our AI agent. And
we'll actually create one from scratch
here. Uh I'm not going to go into huge
detail with this, but come here and hit
AI agent. And then you'll create the
agent with a brief prompt. So we'll say
a friendly nonprofit assistant
ready to collect. And it'll it'll catch
my spelling here. That's okay. uh to
collect donations and answer donation
FAQs. So, we will hit send to generate
that.
I'll take a sip of water while we wait.
And that should come up in just a couple
of seconds. So, in a couple of seconds,
what we'll see is an agent that we can
then, you know, edit or customize
however we need. What we're seeing here
is the build tab. So, this will show you
what your agent will look like on
multiple different channels. And you can
use one, you can use two, you can use
all of these, whatever you need. So here
we're seeing what this looks like as a
chatbot. So something that would appear
like in the lower right of your screen.
Here's a standalone agent. So this is a
URL you can share. You can also collect
we have multiple multiple social media
agent options that you connect to your
social media and you can have your agent
available there. On the right side of
the page here is like global settings.
So you can change your avatar. You can
also change the style and customize with
your color scheme or your logo. And then
each channel will also have its own
settings for that where you can
customize that channel specifically.
When you're ready to share an agent,
publish is where you'll do that. And
you'll have different sharing agents per
type of agent. So for chatbot here, we
see embed code and we see an example of
what that looks like, a preview.
For standalone, you can send a link or
you can invite people by link. And at
any time if you want to see what this
looks like to your, you know, to anybody
who might be using it, you can toggle on
test mode and you can see that. And you
can also change which channel you're
looking at.
Um, the most important part of agents is
on the train tab. So that's where you'll
actually give your agents the
information that they need to answer
questions. So here we have several
options in knowledge base. You can add
in text. You can upload any number of
files. So, when it comes to donation,
that might be um if your annual reports
are public or your financial reports,
you can upload those. Uh if you have a
quarterly newsletter that talks about
how donations are used, you might want
to share that. If you have an FAQ about
tax information, you want probably want
to include that. So, you can upload all
kinds of files there. You can also add
links, so to your website or other
valuable resources, and you can include
sublinks as well. So this will crawl
specific pages of your site and you can
chat uh you can give your agent specific
questions and answers. So if you know
that people are always asking how they
can get information for tax purposes,
you can type that in and type in the
direct answer. Uh there are some other
options here where your agent can pull
in information from some external
sources as well. And then you can also
teach your agent by chatting with it as
if you were a user. And if your agent
answers anything incorrectly, you can
correct that and say, "Okay, in the
future, please answer this question this
way." And you'll be able to add to the
knowledge base that way. Actions here um
give your agent more specific
instructions on how to use anything
you've given the agent in the knowledge
base. So, you'll first choose if this is
applying to all channels or one channel
or just two channels, whatever. Then,
you're sort of setting up a conditional
logical uh logic element here. So when
somebody does something, we're I want
you to do this. So for example, when a
user talks asks about making a donation,
I want you to fill out our donation
form. So that will prompt the agent when
somebody asks about a donation to start
filling out the donation form. So the
agent can actually collect the
information from the donation form. So,
it's kind of presenting it instead of
somebody filling out a form or somebody
um if you know if somebody wants to fill
out a form, they'll see a button to be
able to fill out the form instead.
[gasps]
The uh you can connect specific forms
here under forms. So to add a donation
form or if this is for volunteer
management to add any, you know,
volunteer signups for specific events or
whatever it is that you're doing, you'll
just come here and add any other forms
that you want your agent to be able to
uh to respond to and help people fill
out. And then the last option here are
tools. And these can expand what your
agent can do. So your agent isn't just
chatting with you or with people uh and
sharing that information with you. Uh
but you can escalate to a human if you
want your agent to be the first line of
defense. Agents can take notes. They can
present media like videos or PDFs. Um
you can connect with uh calendars or
social media. So multiple different
things that you can do here. And I will
also mention that the agents do keep all
of the conversations that come in. So
you are able to come back and look
through all of those conversations. If
you're finding that um you know the
information that you've given the agent
isn't quite hitting the mark, you can
change that. Uh you can see what
questions are coming up most frequently.
So all of that is available to you.
Um and that is everything I wanted to
cover here in the demo. I know that was
a lot. Uh my intention here was to give
you a sense of everything Jot Form can
do and unfortunately we don't have time
to go comprehensively into all of that
but if you'd like any more information I
know we have some questions that have
come in and I'm happy to provide more um
more resources as well. But just to
quickly recap um with the form here we
looked at conditional logic uh we looked
at um emails and how to customize email
notifications
and we looked at integrations and
workflows. And then we also looked at
the AI agent as well. So I am going to
go back to my slides now. Let me stop
share and then I will share again. Um
just want to close out with a couple of
resources that um I think I've mentioned
I've mentioned the first two already and
I know we'll be providing those in
followup as well. But jotform.com is
where you can learn more about the
product in general and sign up for a
free account. And then if you go to
jotform.com/nonprofit,
you can learn more about how we support
nonprofits and you can also apply for a
nonprofit discount there. And then
lastly, we have a nonprofit specific
YouTube channel where we're putting out
small uh short videos like 5 minutes and
under how you do XYZ with Jot Form. Uh
we also have all of our webinars listed
there and um we're continuing to grow
that over time. So that's a good
resource uh for any nonprofit related
videos.
And on that note, uh I we have some time
for questions. So, uh Artha, I'm gonna
ask if you can help out here. Um I'm
also going to take a look at these and
see if there's anything I can grab. Um
but
>> yeah. Um and first of all, Annette says,
"Impressive." Yep, they were
[clears throat] impressive um the whole
presentation. Thank you so much, Morgan.
So earlier, Alex al Alexandria Dina, I
hope I say your name right, asked, "Can
a registration form be printed out?"
exactly as the form is in the hard copy.
And you said you were going to come back
to that question.
>> Yes. Yeah. Um and thank you. I um let me
go back to my demo here. Are you seeing
the the my um jot for screen? Okay,
great.
>> Um so if I go into
actually from the form builder here, we
have a PDF editor too. So every form um
this is also automatically created. So
you don't have to do anything to create
this, but you can customize it. So um
this is one option if you want a PDF
that uh is available to people as a
record of what they've filled out or is
available to you. You can also
automatically send this to cloud
storage. Um you can customize this again
exactly how you like. So if you want to
remove fields or add additional fields,
you can do all of that. There's also the
design elements on the right. Um, so
this is useful for um when something's
already been completed. We do also have
a way to share
forms as a PDF. Uh I don't
that's not I that's not something I talk
about often. Um so oh yeah here uh okay
great. So I I do remember how to get
there. So here on the publish tab for
your form in the form builder there is a
download fillable PDF option. So with
that you can download as a PDF and share
as a PDF. And I don't I you can also
customize what this looks like as well.
And um for both of these you can also
change what that looks like. So if you
do have like something where multiple
different types of people are
registering for an event and you want
the PDFs to look different per person,
you can customize that. So here where
you see new PDF, you can you know you
you can basically you can just design
multiple different types of PDFs for
>> Yeah.
She also asked um well first a comment.
Our form has an area medium income table
on it that the application the applicant
is asked to circle their income and the
number in the household. Can that be on
the form?
>> Yeah. Um I'm not quite sure what um we
do have like a table um build option.
Sorry, went to the wrong thing. um that
you could use as a field. Let me sorry
clicking on all the wrong things. Um so
there is a table build option that you
could use as like the field for that.
There are also a number of widgets that
you might want to think about like you
can explore what the widgets options
are. But if you come here
um I think I passed it already.
Uh one of these is so there's a dropown.
The PDF would show all of those options
in a dropown. Oh, here input table you
can add to the form. So you could use
you can remove fields, you know, the the
number of col you can change the number
of columns or rows, but basically you
could build it in something like this
and then with the PDF they would be able
to do that. They'd be able to circle the
income.
>> Yeah, great. Um, I'm going to try to say
this one really slow. Um, an anonymous
attendee says, "Is there a way to be
able to change submissions in the
table?" An example
um in event registration we incorporated
a liability waiver and a client requires
a signature not just a check mark but
say someone registered under the wrong
category or registration type I cannot
change it because it was a signed
document how what's the best way to fix
that
>> um so in tables you should be able to
edit anything
um I'm not so there are tables if if
you're using Jot Form Sign, you will
also have a table that looks just like
this. So, this is for the form builder.
Um, sign builder is a different jot form
sign is a different product. It's
basically like is similar to docu sign.
Um, and your responses also go into a
table there. I know in here if you
double click on anything, you're able to
like change I can change the name from
here. So, I I believe it's the same in
the sign table. I'm not totally sure
about that. I'd have to double check on
that. Um, but as far as forms are
concerned, you can update any of these
in here. If there's a, you know, a
mistake or you need to go back and
update information, somebody changes an
address, you want to update that there,
whatever you need to do. So, you are
able to make changes there.
>> Great questions. I see Joanne put in the
chat, um, first of all, she said, "Thank
you. If we already have a form built on
another platform, how hard is it to
transfer to Jot Form and also can
visitors upload files to us?
>> The answer to the first question is not
hard at all and the second question is
yes. So if you go into create to create
a form and again I would recommend a
free Jot Form account to play around
with this all of this functionality is
included in there. So, if you want to
try this out, um, you absolutely can do
that for free. And then if you want to
use more of Jot Form, you can always
sign up for a paid account. But in form,
you have multiple different ways that
you can create your form. And one is to
import a form. And you can import from
multiple different sources. So, if you
have a PDF, you can pull that in. Um,
you can also use import for from URL. So
if you have a form on another platform
that you want to bring into Jot Form,
you can do that very easily. Just enter
the URL and hit import and it will do
that. Now there might be some editing
that you have to do after there to like
make it look look better with the
formatting and everything, but um you
don't have to just replicate everything
by hand. So it does save a lot of effort
there. Um as far as uploading, so the
second question, can somebody upload
files? There is a file element. Uh so
that is I always pass this one. I was
just doing a demo about this the other
day. And
uh uh where'd it go? File upload right
there. So with file upload, you can just
drag and drop that onto the form. And
then when your user sees that, what they
see is a space to add files. And I
believe it accepts like all of the
standard files that you might want, the
PDF, image, uh, word, word, docs, etc.
So, it's just as easy as dragging and
dropping a file upload field and naming
that field and then people can upload
whatever you need them to upload.
>> Beautiful. Morgan, when you um went to
the agent, um Sarah has a question about
the agent. She said, "Will an agent show
up if I um I frame the form on my
website?"
>> Yeah, there is an I frame option. Um
[sighs] let's see.
Agents uh is I don't want to create a
new one. Um is fairly well new this
year. Let me see if I have one already
created.
Uh nope. Okay, I'll just start from
scratch. Um, agents is fairly new this
year and it's been changing
uh pretty frequently. So, we're adding
new features like all the time. So, um,
pardon me if I uh can't find this one
right away. Um, but it's on that share
tab on the publish tab.
If you have the chatbot here, you have I
believe it's options here. Um, there is
an iframe option and
um, yeah, I'm not I'm not sure offhand
where that is, but there absolutely is
an option for that and um, I can follow
up with you or you can always reach out
to jotform support too. So that's just
jotform.com/cont.
They can help you with all of that and
um, yeah, they're available 247 for for
any help. Awesome.
And MJ said, "If you have a form, can
you in drop form, can you have it
populate the form responses into a
notion database?"
>> Um, let's see. I don't know offhand. Um,
but let's check it out if that's one of
our integrations. If we don't have a
direct integration, um, you can probably
connect with something like Zapier. So,
let's see. Okay.
Yeah. Okay. So, there is notion. It
looks like it is done through Zapier,
but yeah. Um, you can uh So, again, you
would just come here and um it looks
like there's already some like pre-built
zaps that connect Jot Form to Notion and
it's giving you all of the options. So,
basically, you'll just come through and
see what it is that you want to do. So
whether it's you know generating new
items, generating database items, you
know, whatever it is you want to do,
you'll click use that zap and then you
customize what it is that you want to
pass from Jot Form to Notion from there
and um should be that you know that's
pretty much all there is to it. You
should be ready to go from there.
>> Beautiful. And last question um Anz
going back to the client uploading the
form. Ana said when they upload the form
will it go to Google Drive or will it
come to her email?
>> Um when they upload a file on a form so
>> yes
>> um so with forms in general a couple of
options all of the fields that you're
collecting in the form. So if you have
people uploading things that will all be
wherever you want it to go. Um as far as
where you want it to go there are
multiple options. So by default it'll go
into tables which I showed. It will also
go into inbox. So inbox is basically an
email tool built into each form. So from
here you can access any uploads. You can
also forward or respond to things. Um
but all of the information you're
collecting in the form including files
uploaded will be available either in
inbox and tables or in both of those.
Um, I don't have an upload field on
here, but you would see it. And I
believe in um in inbox here, you'd see
it kind of tagged at the bottom, too.
Uh, if you want emails to go to your
team that have all of the information
when somebody fills out a form, um, that
would just be in the settings, emails.
So, that would be your notification
email. And again, you can fully
customize this. So you can see that file
upload field right here. Uh and you
would see any files. So you'd see them
available for download. And then if you
want to push things to Google Drive or
any other platform with integrations,
you can um you know pick whatever that
is. So, we have Google Drive here and
you can automatically have Jot Form send
copies of um of your form responses to
Drive if you use uh Google Sheets or
another
uh like Excel or anything like that. You
can also send responses directly there.
So, it basically be like the table that
you saw but also available in uh you
know Google Sheets, Excel, whatever. And
in those the file is downloadable from
there as well. So if they have uploaded
anything and you are looking at it in
Google Sheets, you'll you'll be able to
double click on it to open that
additional file that they've uploaded.
>> Awesome. So that's it for the questions.
I want to see if you had any final words
to share. Um, yeah, you know, the the
last thing I'll mention, I know that,
um, the Techup team is going to send out
a follow-up email with some of those
resources I mentioned. Um, but again,
just want to encourage you if you're not
already a Jot Form user to check out,
you know, a free account at jobfor.com.
Again, all of the functionality I showed
is available even on free accounts. So,
what you're limited in in free accounts
is the number of forms you can create or
the number of agents you can create, but
all of that functionality is there. all
of the integrations. Um, if you are
interested in paid accounts and learning
more about how Jot Form helps
nonprofits, we have um the nonprofit
link here. And again, um, we have lots,
we have thousands of nonprofit
customers. So, if you're looking for
examples, um, other resources, etc. I'm
always happy to connect with anybody. I
am Morgan Jotform, so it's just m
ogotform.
I would be more than happy to speak with
anybody. Um, I believe we will also send
a follow-up message. So, you'll have my
contact information in there as well.
So, uh, so yeah, check it out. Um, I
hope this session has been helpful as
far as giving you some prompts that you
can use and other ideas for how to
leverage AI, uh, and how Jot Form can
help with that as well. So, um, yeah, I
just want to close by saying thank you
to again, thanks to the Tech Soup team
for having me and for facilitating
today.