Posts by Shawn Olds

Before you know it, your development team will be diving into fall events, Giving Tuesday, and year-end appeal planning. Summer is the perfect season to explore new fundraising ideas so that your donors do not take a vacation from your charity, too. 3 Summer Fundraising & Donation Ideas Try a Giving Day. Give a donor…

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…

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…

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.…