Future Fundraising Now

What’s wrong with nonprofits, that they keep giving away stupid stuff like address labels?

Don’t they know that everybody hates that stuff, so it’s a dumb waste of money!

That’s the message in a recent article on Vox: Why no...

Last week, I talked about the threat bad use of AI tools poses for your fundraising.

There’s a bigger threat. For you personally, and maybe even to human culture itself: AI saves us from the agony of thinking.

And thinking — the kind that’s difficult, agonizing, with no success guaranteed — that’s where most human greatness comes from. Including...

When I wrote my first book (The Fundraiser’s Guide to Irresistible Communications) the first official step was to send three sample chapters to the editor. The few days between sending the chapters and hearing back were some of the worst I’ve experienced. I was sure he was going to hate those ch...

I wrote a large (and, we hoped, financially pivotal) project for a client.

There were going to be a lot of eyes on my work. We knew that. It would include uninformed board members and people from departments not normally involved in (or held accountable for) fundraising.

It was going to be a challenge.

Then ChatGPT joined the party.

Here are the 5 most-read Future Fundraising Now blog posts of the month of August: