September 1, 2026
A fifth of your donors are gone; What's making up the difference?
Four weeks ago: donors down, dollars up. New data from 219 US and Canadian nonprofits says the second half of that has stopped being true....
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August 25, 2026
No supporter gets the same email twice. What does AI stewardship really look like?
On August 12 we introduced the grant-backed co-design cohort. This is the first workstream: what personalized email runs on, what we capture, and wha...
August 18, 2026
Your donor used AI to give to your cause; but what are the consequences.
A new Senate bill, a payments protocol - Plus the Cohort 2 waitlist is open, we're in Chicago, and this week's funding radar....
August 12, 2026
Six nonprofits selected to pioneer agentic giving. Everything they learn, we publish here.
Introducing our grant-backed co-design cohort: five months of open experiments in agentic fundraising, with the results published as we go - failures...
August 4, 2026
You can't blast your way out of a shrinking donor base
Fewer donors, a thinner pipeline, a decaying channel - the data in one place. Plus: what to do about it, this week's funding radar, and news worth yo...
July 22, 2026
AI for Non Profits Network: Weekly Briefing 07/21 - Building in the Open is out
The peer-learning paper from the OpenAI Foundation's first grantee cohort is now public - and this week we take you inside the room that produced it....
July 14, 2026
AI for Non Profits Network: Weekly Briefing 07/14
This week: free cybersecurity help arrives as AI industrializes the attack on nonprofit trust; what Uber's oddest org-chart experiment teaches a secto...
July 7, 2026
AI for Non Profits Network: Weekly Briefing 07/07 - special issue
Something different this week. We spent this morning on a panel in front of a room full of charity finance leaders, and came back with one idea worth...
June 30, 2026
AI for Non Profits Network: Weekly Briefing 06/30
This week: new data showing the organizations furthest along with AI are investing more in people; and a reminder of what all that reclaimed capacity...
June 23, 2026
AI for Non Profits Network: Weekly Briefing 06/23
This week, two hidden costs of the AI rollout that rarely make the business case: what it's doing to your team's state of mind, and what it's doing to...
June 16, 2026
AI for Non Profits Network: Weekly Briefing 06/16 - Special Grants Issue
Two announcements this week shape the rest of 2026 for AI in the nonprofit sector: Anthropic's $150M Claude Corps fellowship, and OpenAI Foundation's...
June 2, 2026
AI for Non Profits Network: Weekly Briefing 06/02
The weekly digest from a network of non-profits interested in AI. In this week's briefing: Inside the OpenAI grantee cohort - what’s actually b...
May 26, 2026
AI for Non Profits Network: Weekly Briefing 05/26
The weekly digest from a network of non-profits interested in AI. In this week's briefing: Anthropic and the Gates Foundation strike philanthropy's b...
May 19, 2026
AI for Non Profits Network: Weekly Briefing 05/19
The weekly digest from a network of non-profits interested in AI. In this week's briefing: AI search is reducing organic traffic; where to use AI in...
May 12, 2026
AI for Non Profits Network: Weekly Briefing 05/12
The weekly digest from a network of non-profits. In this week's briefing: What the give....
April 28, 2026
5 × $50K grants up for grabs - fully-funded AI fundraising pilots for 5 nonprofits
Everyone’s using AI. Almost no one’s moving donations because of it....
April 21, 2026
AI for Non Profits Network: Weekly Briefing 04/21
The weekly digest from a network of non-profits. In this week's briefing: Everyone’s using AI - but who’s seeing the benefit?...
April 14, 2026
AI for Non Profits Network: Weekly Briefing 04/14
The weekly digest from a network of non-profits. In this week's briefing: GovAI Coalition turns into a non profit; The Volunteer challenge with AI &...
April 7, 2026
AI for Non Profits Network: Weekly Briefing 04/7
The weekly digest from a network of non-profits: A couple of case studies from the recent Global Nonprofits Leader Summit; Should we trust the gifts o...
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