AI in fundraising is raising serious questions, opportunities, risks... and blood pressure.
Most fundraisers are somewhere between "
Please automate the things!" and "
I want no part of this." Some are wondering, "
If I use this well and tell people, am I training my own replacement?" It's all valid. It's also messy. It's time for clarity.
This interactive clinic is designed for fundraisers: grant-writers, direct response managers, people managing monthlies, majors and beyond, who want to know what questions they should be asking, what strategic answers look like, and what to do next.
Here's what we'll do together:
- Get oriented: using a 'where the heck are we?' AI continuum to map where your org is, so decisions can start from reality
- Get clear: with a practical, values-based decision framework you can use immediately to evaluate any AI idea that lands on your desk
- Get answers: in two live clinic rounds where we work through real fundraising scenarios together using that decision framework.
You'll see nonprofit use cases, and I'll bring the most common clinic questions so you don't even have to raise your hand.
You'll leave with:
- answers and examples of how AI is being used in nonprofits, safely and responsibly, to save time and sanity
- practical guardrails
- clarity about where AI fits, and where it doesn't
We can't ignore the AI elephant in the (meeting) room anymore. Staff
are experimenting with it; they just have little incentive to say it out loud (no shame, I get why). This session helps you bring that experimentation into the light and harness it into something intentional, useful, strategic, and values-aligned.
You don’t need to know everything about AI. You just need to know how to decide what's important.
