Nonprofit Fundraising

If you are a nonprofit professional, you have probably seen Dan Pallotta’s Ted Talk, “The way we think about charity is dead wrong.” If not, the video is well worth your time.     In the talk, Pallotta argues we hold five main misconceptions about charities, including the notion that overhead costs on advertising and…

Sustaining donor relationships today is different than it was ten years ago. The most obvious reason for this difference is due to the rapid advancements of technology. A mere decade ago, donors were not glued to their phones with 24/7 hyper-personalized communication from other organizations vying for their attention in the way they are now.…

We often get asked why boodleAI is available to nonprofits, but not political campaigns.   We receive near weekly inquiries about what it would take for us to make boodle’s powerful AI Assistant available to political fundraisers, who share many of the same challenges (and frustrations) as nonprofit fundraisers. The answer may be a bit…

Artificial intelligence (AI) makes many people uneasy…and rightfully so. Dumbfounded, the world’s top Go player (Lee Sedol) reviewed the game board and quickly realized he had just lost to a computer. In 2016, AlphaGo, a neural network built by DeepMind (now Google) made a superhuman move to victory. Go is considered the most complex board…

For most nonprofits, annual galas and peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising events are mainstays. These types of events provide an opportunity to strengthen a donor’s sense of loyalty and involvement in the organization while offering additional channels to generate funding for the charity. A nonprofit can receive a significant amount of funding in just 24-hours at a…

What would happen if nonprofits spent less time fundraising with AI and more time focusing on mission acceleration? Three years ago, this was the early morning through late in the evening conversation topic between the founding team of boodleAI. In 2016, boodleAI was founded on the idea of bringing AI technology to nonprofits for the…

NonProfit Pro recently released its “2018 Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Study”. This study includes research on all things peer-to-peer, including strategic planning for nonprofits, the efficiency of fundraising, and how fundraising platforms help nonprofits become more efficient. Here are a couple of our favorite statistics: Over 43 percent of nonprofits engaged in peer-to-peer fundraising said that fundraising…

It is no secret that relationship-building is the core of successful fundraising. The problem is, at times, relationship-building with donors can be expensive, taxing, and confusing. While traditional fundraising efforts such as grant writing, galas, and direct mail campaigns can be extremely useful for an organization, they are also some of the most exhausting efforts.…