Jon Thompson is the man behind the curtain in this context, as the associate VP of philanthropic strategy and technology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Thompson works to find new ways for tech and philanthropy to interact. Traditionally, he said technology has been used in specific ways, like for email lists, and there hasn’t been a lot of room to find new uses.
“So a lot of the things that I spend my time on, such as AI, big data, marketing automation, getting into virtual reality, distributed rendering, whatnot, it all falls outside of those existing structural dynamics,” Thompson said. “And so, what I was brought into was to help CHOP rethink how technology can lift up all of our fundraising practices.”
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