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[AI-assisted for speed.] People new to fundraising think they have a discovery problem. Not enough names, not enough leads. Find the right people and the money will follow. So that s what the industry sells them. Wealth screening. Prospect databases. Lists of people you don t know. And now AI tools that promise ten thousand more names, Continue reading Stop Buying Lists of People You Don t Know
Over the course of my career, I ve become increasingly comfortable with—and, in fact, proud of—being in sales. (I would go so far as to say salespeople actually run the world. Happy to argue that with you over coffee.) Sales is the act of turning a zero into a one (I m reclaiming that from Peter Thiel). Continue reading Sell Me This Pen
This moment requires a lot from all of us. Leadership. Courage. Time. Connection. Shared risk. It also requires money — directed to the people and work that need it most. One of the things I think about a lot, as a professional fundraiser, is how to get more of what fundraisers actually know into the Continue reading hostadinner.org: Simple guide to intentional dinners
Following my fun+indulgent post about how power flows from form, and the more strategic+applied post laying out a design framework for wielding that power, I asked AI to generate a expansive list of all the ways humans organize power, money, and each other. It’s meant to map the full possibility space of organizational forms you Continue reading How We Organize Power
A style-guide to detect and remove obvious AI-isms in text. To be used as a edit out all of this style guide for my donor profiles. ANTI-STYLE GUIDE How to Edit Out the Tells of AI-Generated Writing Negative Reference for Final Editorial Passes INTRODUCTION This is not a style guide for how to write well.It’s Continue reading Fixing AI-speak