AI Tools for the Third Sector

In a context where third sector organizations are facing more challenges than ever —tight budgets, volunteer management, demands for transparency, and communication with multiple audiences— artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a strategic ally to drive the digital transformation of the social sector.

At teclaSocial, specialists in digitalization for the third sector, we are pleased to share a selection of accessible and useful AI tools for organizations, associations, and foundations looking to enhance their productivity, communication, and social impact.

AI Tools for Content Creation

These tools are designed to automatically generate written content from a prompt or instruction given by the user. This type of AI relies on language models trained on large datasets to predict and generate coherent, meaningful, and naturally styled text.

• ChatGPT: Free-form or creative writing.
• Grammarly: Grammar and style correction.
• Jasper: Fast marketing content creation (copywriting).

AI Tools for Image Generation

This technology can generate entirely new images from textual descriptions, sketches, or reference images. It’s a branch of AI based on generative models, such as deep neural networks, trained on millions of images to learn visual patterns, shapes, colors, and styles.

• DALL·E: Integrated into ChatGPT for text-to-image generation.
• Canva: Offers artistic image creation tools.
• Midjourney: Specializes in high-quality, artistic image generation.

AI Tools for Video Generation

This is one of the most recent and impactful innovations in AI. It allows the automatic creation of videos from text, audio, images, or other video material, with increasingly advanced levels of realism and personalization.

• Runway: Combines text-based video generation with professional visual editing tools.
• Synthesia: Easily creates videos using digital avatars and AI-generated voiceovers.
• Sora: Enables the creation of highly customized videos from complex prompts.

AI Tools for Creating Presentations

These applications use AI to automatically generate well-structured and visually designed slide decks. You only need to provide a brief summary, some keywords, or a title. These tools are useful for trainings, talks, meetings, visual reports, or project presentations to funders and partners.

• Gamma: Produces complete presentations with modern design.
• Canva: Includes AI features to auto-generate presentations, suggest layouts, summarize text, and apply visual styles with a few words
• Copilot: Creates presentations directly from a Word document or a brief description, generating slides with titles, key points, and coherent visual design in seconds.

Other AI Tools

• Perplexity: Delivers accurate, real-time and verifiable AI-generated answers.
• Otter: Automatically transcribes and summarizes meetings with AI.
• HeyGen: Generates realistic videos with talking avatars from text input.
• Google Notebook: Creates summaries and mind maps from complex texts, enhancing comprehension and analysis.

AI is an opportunity, but it only creates value when accompanied by strategic vision and human oversight

Conclusion

At a time when the third sector is being asked to do more with less, artificial intelligence is emerging as a transformative ally, capable of providing real support to the daily work of social organizations. Far from being an inaccessible or purely technological tool, AI is becoming a practical, affordable resource tailored to the specific needs of foundations, associations, and cooperatives.

As we have seen, there are AI tools for nearly every key area of an organization’s activity: content writing, image and video generation, presentation creation, and automation of repetitive tasks such as meeting transcription or answering complex queries. All of this presents an opportunity to improve efficiency, save time, optimize resources, and strengthen communication with diverse audiences.

At teclaSocial, we understand that digital transformation is not just about tools—it is about people, values, and social impact. That’s why we are committed to supporting the third sector through this process, helping to identify the most useful and appropriate technological solutions for each unique reality. With the right guidance, AI can cease to be a distant threat and become a lever for innovation and social justice, in service of the causes that are changing the world.

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