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By Dale Nirvani Pfeifer
How to use AI to raise more money, ethically and effectively. A practical playbook for fundraisers and nonprofit leaders who carry both responsibility and care.
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By the author
Dale Nirvani Pfeifer is the CEO of Giving Compass, a philanthropic intelligence platform. She co-founded Goodworld, the technology behind the #donate hashtag, and writes on AI and philanthropy with leaders including Jeff Raikes, former CEO of the Gates Foundation.
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The thesis
AI did not change fundraising because it made tasks faster. It changed fundraising because it changed where judgment lives.
Inside the book
Each chapter pairs a working framework with a named organization that tested it. No stock vendors, no vague gains. A few examples drawn straight from the book.
Save the Children Australia
+18%
response rate vs. traditional segmentation
Predictive modeling ranked existing donors by upgrade readiness. Targeted outreach to the highest-propensity segments generated an 18% response-rate lift over the organization’s traditional RFV segmentation, with more gifts from fewer mail pieces sent.
Chapter 7. With Dataro.
Make-A-Wish Arizona
$3.3M
raised at the 2025 Wish Ball, 122% of goal
The team consolidated the full event lifecycle on OneCause. The 2025 Wish Ball raised $3.3M, driven by a $2M paddle raise for Fund-A-Wish, $526,000 in auctions, and $80,000 in pre-event bidding. Check-in time for nearly a thousand guests dropped by 30 minutes.
Chapter 11. With OneCause (Bonterra).
Center for Victims of Torture
150+
grants centralized in one system
CVT moved 150-plus annual grants out of spreadsheets and into Instrumentl. Grant work shifted from reactive deadline management to a visible pipeline, and the team secured general operating funds for a new regional program.
Chapter 8. With Instrumentl.
Plus nine more, including ethical AI translation for 609,000-plus refugees, a $1M Bloomerang Penny match at Joe Nuxhall Miracle League Fields, and SBP’s GoFundMe Pro predictive-ask lift of 66% on average one-time gifts.
From the foreword
Can AI help us stay human in the work that matters most? This book answers that question with a resounding yes.
Meena Das
Founder & CEO, Namaste Data. Foreword author.
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Chapter 1, Why Judgment Is Becoming the Differentiator, sets up the book’s central argument and the three workflow shifts redefining fundraising. Drop your email and we’ll send you a printable PDF, no marketing attached.
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