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I document what I build, what works, what fails, and what I learn while applying AI to fundraising, nonprofit operations, and entrepreneurial projects.
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AI in Nonprofit Fundraising: What to Automate, What to Keep Human, and Why
Five useful combinations of AI and human judgment across research, outreach preparation, meetings, follow-up, and reporting.
Read the practical guide AI systems · Audience developmentI Gave AI a Goal. It Found the Audience, Wrote the Emails, and Ran the Campaign.
An experiment in moving AI from assistant to operator through an autonomous youth-sports outreach system.
Read the case study Nonprofit fundraising · Applied AIFrom a List of Foundations to a Living Partnership Pipeline
How an AI-assisted system supports foundation research, outreach, meetings, follow-up, and institutional memory at MBI.
Read the case studyThis is an intentionally focused publication. New field notes will be added when there is a real experiment, useful evidence, and something worth sharing.
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