Most nonprofit leaders aren't asking whether to use AI anymore — they're asking which tools, in what order, with what guardrails, without burning out their team or breaking donor trust. The TRUST Audit™ answers those questions in a single structured engagement, delivered in 3 business days.
So your team experimented. Someone put donor data into ChatGPT. Someone else drafted an appeal that didn't sound like your voice. A board member forwarded an article about AI replacing fundraisers. You bought a tool that nobody uses.
Now you're staring at a calendar full of vendor demos, a budget that needs justifying, and a quiet worry that you're either moving too slowly — or about to make an expensive mistake on the wrong tool.
You don't need another article. You need a diagnosis from someone who has spent 20 years inside development shops and now spends every day inside the AI question.
The TRUST Audit™ is a four-part diagnostic engagement built specifically for nonprofit development teams. You'll leave with a branded scorecard, a written report, and a 90-day priority action plan you can hand to your board.
Before we meet, you complete a structured intake form covering your current tools, workflows, team size, donor data systems, and pressure points. This means our session starts at depth — not at "tell me about your organization."
A focused working session with Tara Quarrie. We map where your team's time is actually going, evaluate your current and prospective AI tools against the TRUST Framework, and identify the top time-saving opportunities ranked by impact and risk.
A formal scorecard rating your organization across the five TRUST dimensions — transparency, consent, unintended consequences, stakeholder voice, human-in-the-loop — plus a workflow readiness score. Shareable with your board, leadership, or funders.
A formatted, branded report (not a Google Doc) with our findings, tool recommendations, ethical guardrails, and a sequenced 90-day action plan: what to do this month, next month, and by quarter's end. Yours to keep, share, and execute.
Twenty years of equity-centered fundraising leadership applied to your specific operation. We see what you can't see from the inside.
QDG holds zero affiliate relationships with AI vendors. What we recommend is what we'd use — and what we tell you to skip is what we'd skip.
A formatted, branded one-page scorecard ranking your AI readiness across five dimensions. Built for the boardroom, not the inbox.
No abstract roadmap. A sequenced action list with the first three things to do this week, this month, and by quarter's end — ranked by impact.
The TRUST Framework was developed specifically for nonprofit fundraising contexts — because the ethical stakes in donor relationships are higher than most AI vendors acknowledge. Every recommendation in your audit gets evaluated against these five dimensions.
Can you explain this clearly to donors and the public?
Did donors knowingly share their data for this purpose?
Who might be harmed, excluded, or deprioritized?
Who had input on this decision?
What decisions should never be fully automated?
This is not a discovery call disguised as a deliverable. It is not a free consultation with a sales pitch at the end. It is not a generic AI 101 webinar.
The TRUST Audit™ is a paid diagnostic engagement. You're paying for 20 years of equity-centered fundraising leadership distilled into a clear, written diagnosis you couldn't produce yourself — not for our time. That's why warm referrals book it without negotiating.
If we determine after the audit that QDG isn't the right partner for your next step, we'll tell you. The roadmap is yours either way.
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