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Before You Hand AI the Keys to Your Fundraising…

June 8, 2026
James Herlihy
Artificial Intelligence, Digital Fundraising, Time Management
A friend at a nonprofit I work with told me recently about an AI-led acquisition campaign platform they tested.  The tool was pitched as an online-marketer-in-a-box.  Upload your brand and comms guidelines, point it at a campaign goal and voila…
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Lead Generation and the 95% of Donors You’re Ignoring

June 1, 2026
James Herlihy
Digital Fundraising, Donor Acquisition
A major European health charity was spending serious money on lead generation: Getting the names of potential donors via a full campaign of social ads, landing pages. Then they would convert those leads to regular (monthly) givers via phone.  I asked the fundraising manager: what happens to the people…
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How to Get Your Fundraising Emails Delivered

May 25, 2026
Jeff Brooks
Artificial Intelligence, Digital Fundraising, Writing
Your donors’ email inboxes now have the most strict and heartless guardians ever: AI bots. As human beings with inboxes that have become a burdensome search through piles of spam messages every single day, most of us are happy for…
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Why AI is Making Direct Mail Fundraising More Important

May 18, 2026
Jeff Brooks
Digital Fundraising, Direct Mail
Imagine a world where you have a list of donors. You send messages to them. The delivery rate is very nearly 100%. They arrive in uncrowded in-boxes – even at the busiest times of year, there are seldom more than…
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Social Media Win: How One Organization Recruited a Lot of Monthly Donors

November 17, 2025
Jeff Brooks
Digital Fundraising, Monthly Giving
Fundraisingology Lab member Sophia Grewal — Fundraising Manager at Pets of the Homeless — faced a challenge. Her organization, which serves homeless people and their pets in Australia, faced a big increase in requests for support. These requests doubled in…
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How to Grow Your Email List

November 10, 2025
James Herlihy
Digital Fundraising
How big is your email list? How responsive is it? Those are the two questions you should be asking yourself regularly. Because your email list is more important all the time. Your ability to raise funds sustainably depends on a…
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Digital Fundraising: Are You Ready for the Tipping Point?

November 3, 2025
Jeff Brooks
Digital Fundraising
My first “real” job after university: I was a writer at a small nonprofit, and I had the latest writing technology on my desk: An IBM Selectric II. It was a super-cool typewriter that used a “golfball” to imprint the…
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How to Turn a Single Direct Mail Appeal into a Full Campaign

September 15, 2025
Jeff Brooks
Digital Fundraising, Direct Mail, Fundraising
Double your income! This post is part of a series on specific steps you can take to meaningfully increase your fundraising revenue. This is part 3. As much as we may hate to admit it, one of the top reasons…
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How to Increase Direct Mail Open Rates using Mystery

August 25, 2025
Jeff Brooks
Digital Fundraising, Direct Mail
Curiosity is one of the most human traits. When we don’t know what’s going on, we feel compelled to find out. Think monkeys. Or kittens: We perk up and pay a lot more attention when we don’t know what something…
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It’s Time to Ditch That Same-Old “Default” Direct Mail Appeal

March 17, 2025
Jeff Brooks
Digital Fundraising
I keep getting the same direct mail appeal in my home mailbox. Not exactly the same appeal, but different appeals with the same basic specs. Most of them from smaller local nonprofits who would like me to become a donor.…
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