Your grantees are being asked to adopt AI.
Few are funded to do it well.
The AI Capacity Cohort gives a group of your grantees a full year of fundraising-focused AI implementation, advisory support, and development leadership. You make one investment. Every organization in the cohort builds capacity that lasts.
Start a Conversation →AI reached the development office before the budget did
Most nonprofits already use AI. Usually it is one person at a time, on a personal account, with no shared workflow and no policy behind it. The work and the risk land on development staff, who are asked to do more with tools nobody chose, trained, or paid for.
When it goes wrong, the donor relationship absorbs the cost. Few grantees will ask you for help with this. Many are worried that asking signals they are behind.
of foundation leaders say their foundation offers grantees no funding or support for AI.
Built for Fundraising, Built to Last
Each grantee in the cohort receives four kinds of support.
Each grantee leaves with AI systems built into its own fundraising workflows, connected to its own donor data and tools. Builds are scoped with each organization and delivered by our technical team.
Adoption holds when someone is there after the build. A dedicated advisor works with each grantee through staff changes, tool updates, and the questions that come up once the work is real.
Grantees that need it receive experienced fundraising leadership alongside the technology, so every system serves a real development strategy.
Donor consent, human review, and equity safeguards are part of every build from day one, guided by the TRUST Framework™ and a shared AI policy each grantee writes with its own staff.
One Year, Four Phases
Cohorts are planned with you about three months before launch, so the work fits your grantmaking calendar.
We start with your goals for your grantees and shape the cohort around them.
- Select participating grantees together
- Agree on goals and how progress will be measured
- Set the schedule around your grantmaking calendar
Each grantee gets a clear picture of where it stands and systems built for how it raises money.
- AI readiness assessment for each organization
- A shared AI policy written with each grantee's own staff
- AI systems built into each grantee's fundraising workflows
Ongoing support turns new systems into daily practice.
- A dedicated advisor for each grantee
- Development leadership for grantees that need it
- Peer learning across the cohort
- Regular updates to you on progress
Grantees finish the year owning their systems and the knowledge to keep improving them.
- Documentation and hand-off of every system
- A results report for you and your board
- Options for continued support
Start Where the Resources Start
Fundraising Funds Everything Else
Development capacity determines whether programs, staff, and services are resourced. Strengthening it strengthens the whole organization.
Donor Data Needs Protection
Development offices hold some of the most sensitive information a nonprofit keeps. AI use there needs clear rules about consent, privacy, and who sees what.
Relationships Stay Human
AI can take on research, drafting, and data work. The relationships that sustain giving stay with people, and every build is designed around that.
Fundraisers Who Understand AI
Tara designed the AI Capacity Cohort and leads its strategy. She brings 20+ years of equity-centered fundraising leadership, including USC Athletics and Heifer International, and writes The Philanthropic, a weekly newsletter on who is paying for the nonprofit sector's AI transition.
- 20+ years of fundraising leadership
- Author of the TRUST Framework™ for responsible AI in fundraising
- Contributed to raising $350M+ in national campaigns
- Secured multiple 7- and 8-figure gifts
Yulanda leads the cohort's team of advisors and its embedded development leadership. She brings 30+ years of advancement experience, including serving as AVP of Advancement at Pitzer College.
- 30+ years of advancement and development leadership
- CFRE certified fundraising professional
- Secured tens of millions in major gifts
- Led major gift teams that increased giving by 20%+
Fund the Capacity Your Grantees
Need to Keep Up
Start with a conversation about your grantees, your goals, and your timeline.