Not a bio. The actual reason I built this.
Twenty years ago I was the fundraiser eating lunch at my desk, alone, absolutely sure I was the problem.
Nobody had handed me a manual. Nobody had told me what was safe. The case for support wasn't the issue — my organization's capacity was, and I didn't have the language for that yet. I just knew I was tired in a way that didn't match how hard I was trying.
I wasn't the problem. I was under-resourced, and nobody had said that part out loud.
I tell you that because it's the same thing I see now, just with a new name on it. AI showed up, and suddenly every fundraiser I know is quietly certain they're behind — that everyone else has this figured out and they're the one who doesn't. They're not behind. They're busy. Those are different problems, and I built this to help with the second one.
I run Brazen Fundraising & Advisory Services, and I've spent twenty years in nonprofit fundraising — grant writing, major gifts, the boring admin nobody talks about. When AI started showing up in every corner of the sector, I didn't wait for someone else to figure out the safe way to use it. I went and sat on the committees writing the rules.
I'm not selling you software. I'm teaching you to use the tools well, and safely, on the work you already do.
I don't think AI is going to save the sector, and I don't think it's going to ruin it either. I think it's a fast, tireless, slightly unreliable assistant that's brilliant at first drafts and terrible at judgment. You bring the judgment. You bring the donor relationships, the story instincts, the knowing-which-detail-matters. The tool brings speed on the parts of the job that were never the point.
"The tools are not your problem. The problem is nobody showed you how to use them without putting your donors at risk. That's the whole reason this exists."
Used right, AI gives you back the hours the job keeps stealing — so you have more of yourself left for the part only you can do: the person across the table.
— Emily
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