November 11, 2026
Successful Outreach: The cheatcode to scaling your fundraising
From calendar moments to event follow-ups, a look at how AI can help your team reach the right person with the right message while a person stays in charge.
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November 4, 2026
Seven AI agents, one person in charge: what can we learn?
The Ties Foundation runs on seven AI agents and one person who signs off on everything. Here’s what you can take from it.
October 28, 2026
Before you build, know your baselines: learnings from the network
This week we learn from other nonprofits, and the lesson that kept coming up: know where you're starting from. Plus: a free 13-tool grant toolkit, and our readers' best tips.
October 21, 2026
The progression of chat agents: what it hears that your analytics can’t
Chat agents can be multifunctional for nonprofits; making the users journey on the site seamless and the real payoff is what their questions tell you.
October 14, 2026
Where’s the evidence? What I learned inside a fundraising AI’s rulebook.
Before an AI gives a nonprofit any fundraising advice, it can check the claim against a graded evidence bank, and this is how that works.
October 7, 2026
A year ahead of you: what the first Open AI People-First Fund grantees built
Notes from our latest peer session, with project demos and key lessons on how non-profits are bringing AI into their work
September 30, 2026
What 200,000 supporter records told us
Six nonprofits sorted data they already held. Plus a 100-email exercise to try this week, and the Cohort 2 waitlist.
September 22, 2026
The case for starting now. What we can learn from Anthropic’s Oversight.
Claude now leads 26% of Anthropic's own AI research tasks and collaborates on over 90% of the rest. But no one is on autopilot.
September 16, 2026
Your next $10k donor gave $50 last GivingTuesday
GivingTuesday is 11 weeks out and the planning docs are open. This year, build yours to find the few supporters who could give far more than you’re asking. Plus: a free workshop on...
September 8, 2026
The pace only goes up from here. What does that mean for nonprofits?
OpenAI’s chief scientist set out the shift on Sunday. A nonprofit we spent last week with has already turned it into a revenue line, and it can be transferred to any cause.
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. Plus: funding radar, and news worth your...
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 what we're testing.
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 included.
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 your time.
July 28, 2026
Ten foundations. $500 million. One open call.
Humanity AI's first $18M reveals what big philanthropy will fund next - plus a $25K accelerator opens Wednesday
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. Plus a free forum this afterno...
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 sector stuck on the efficiency plat...
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 sharing: the segment of one.
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 is doing on the ground.
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