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AI and Fundraising – Don’t Neglect Legal Considerations

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In an increasingly digital world, non-profit organisations’ staff and volunteers face mounting pressure to optimise their fundraising efforts. Limited budgets and competition for donor attention and funding (particularly following USAID cuts) are making it more challenging than ever to sustain vital projects. Fortunately, advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly large language models (LLMs), offer transformative […]

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Tight Times

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Sadly, I have written similar articles over many years, in response to major financial blows. My first was in 1985 when apartheid leader, PW Botha, did not have the courage, wisdom or humanity to cross the Rubicon (as his cruel stubbornness was dubbed). Everyone expected the announcement of the beginning of the dismantling of legislated

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Trust

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As the working year begins and NPO, school and tertiary fundraising staff resume their duties, the focus is on raising money. Raising more money; raising money in new/innovative ways; CEOs and boards will be stepping up their pressure and asking for updated fundraising plans: How much money will be raised? From which donors? Via which

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AI is Here to Stay

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The evolution of humankind has been marked by monumental milestones: the discovery and use of fire 2 million years ago; the invention of the wheel – estimated at around 4,000 BC; steam power; the Industrial Revolution; electricity; the telegram; the telephone; X-rays and massive strides in medical science; radar; computing; email; the worldwide web. The

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Test, Test, Test

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We are often reminded that fundraising is an art, not a science. Many of us go about resourcing our organisations differently. For instance, the most popular course I teach covers fundraising proposal writing. I share a suggested template and talk through the rationale behind and reasons for each section. But, I stress throughout this course

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Ongoing Project Funding

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Most corporate and local trust/foundation donors fund projects for just a year at a time. Although there are a few notable exceptions, the majority of international donor trusts and foundations also restrict their giving to a year. It’s frustrating for fundraisers, CEOs and programme and project managers who want the security of sustained funding for

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NPO support by Gen Z

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Never before has a generation so diligently recorded themselves accomplishing so little. I found this quote on social media (where else?) but cannot establish who first said it. (Or rather, neither Google nor ChatGPT can tell me.) Facetious as this line may sound, particularly to Gen Zers or Zoomers (born between 1997 and 2012), the

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Too Little Creativity and Innovation

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It happens often, We, as fundraisers see a clever concept to resource a non-profit and say, ‘what a good idea!’ Sadly, there are too few such good ideas. The world of fundraising is drowning in the same old (often boring) concepts, many of which don’t work, or the returns are not worth the effort. And,

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Fundraising.AI

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Anyone in the NPO sector who ignores the rapid advent of artificial intelligence (AI), does so to the detriment of their non-profit. THIS is the time to gain an understanding of this invaluable field and to harness its power to assist, where appropriate, in your organisation. AI is way more than Chat GPT assisting with

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Nurture Fundraisers

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I’ve come to recognise the signs. In well over two decades of fundraising consulting, I have had many people book a session ‘to discuss how we can increase our income’. As this is something that I can generally assist with, I schedule their slot. I feel it to be ethical to check what clients need

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AI and Fundraising – Don’t Neglect Legal Considerations

Tight Times

Trust

AI is Here to Stay

Test, Test, Test

Ongoing Project Funding

NPO support by Gen Z

Too Little Creativity and Innovation

Fundraising.AI

Nurture Fundraisers

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