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....
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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 you̵...
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...
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....
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....
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