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Keynotes and workshops on AI and fundraising, and on fundraising campaigns. Anne Murphy has led more than $10 billion in campaigns and co-authored the nonprofit fundraising industry's framework for responsible AI. She brings both to conferences, boards, and development teams.
Practical AI for Fundraising, Advocacy, and Democracy
For fundraisers, advocates, organizers, and social-impact leaders who need to move people and money to advance a cause. Use AI to identify who can influence an issue, understand the relationships and motivations around them, prepare stronger outreach and asks, and stay on top of follow-through while keeping the human relationship central.
What the talk covers
- The fire hoseMore information than any fundraiser can read. What to do with it instead of drowning in it.
- Build your Trust MoatThe one thing AI cannot give a competitor, and how to fortify it today.
- Your personal AI policyThe confidential-information red line, data governance, and what to do about the AI meeting recorder.
- Research that finds your people without surveilling themUseful research versus dossier accumulation.
- Universal avatars"What would Jane think?" as the antidote to anecdote-driven decisions.
- Outreach with no AI slopThe second and third email, and why ego gets in the way.
- Engagement and the fortune in the follow-upSalon events, meeting prep, and documenting the next move while the relationship is warm.
Stories Anne tells
- The AI meeting recorderHow transcripts multiply, and the checklist that keeps them from becoming a liability.
- Dossier ExtremeA feasibility-study client asks for the underlying interviews. What happens next.
- The town matriarchA board chair's anecdote nearly rewrote the annual fund letter.
- The salon VIPDocument the next move while the relationship is hot.
- Volunteer connections"It doesn't do me a darn bit of good. Zero." The follow-up that was never written.
What audiences take home
- The Personal AI Policy interview
- Dossier Extreme, the research method
- The Record the Meeting playbook
- The Constituent Engagement Tracker
- The Salon Series, step by step
Secure Donor Visits in an Attention Economy
No one wants to talk about this, but we have to. Gift officers are finding it harder to secure donor visits and close gifts, and they are showing signs of burnout. Burnout means less staff engagement, weaker donor relationships, and declining results. This workshop rebuilds the reliable portfolio, and hands the busywork to tools built for it, so the conversation stays fully human.
The sections
- Secure the conversationA method for scheduling effective giving conversations regardless of venue. No more empty calendars and end-of-year panic.
- Prepare yourself, your donor, and your cultivation partnerSet the table for a transparent conversation about philanthropy, forthright and never awkward.
- Ask the best questions, nothing more, nothing lessA curated question set that builds momentum toward the next step in the giving cycle.
- Listen, then write a contact report that helpsDeep listening, and a report format that survives staff turnover.
- Accountability-driven follow-upA strong call to action, and how to ping with authority so next steps happen on every side.
- Scale to the whole portfolioA few great conversations are not enough. Run the portfolio, not just the donor in front of you.
Where AI does the lift
Every section teaches the human move first, then the tool that handles the busywork. Participants run a working prompt against their own portfolio in the session, so the practice sticks.
- Before the visitA source-linked donor briefing, and a rehearsal against a simulated donor before the live conversation.
- In the visitThe machine takes notes so the gift officer is fully present.
- After the visitThe contact report, the advisory-tone follow-up, and the to-do list for every party, drafted before the relationship cools.
- Across the portfolioRanked by readiness, briefs batch-prepared, a full week of visits ready at once.
How it runs
- KeynoteThe method and the mindset shift, in one session for a conference or all-staff day.
- Half-day workshopThe sections with in-session work product.
- Cohort courseLive modules, exercises, breakouts, and a case study each time. Twenty percent instruction, sixty percent doing, twenty percent accountability.
Anne taught the original Donor Visits course to gift officers across higher education. This is the version with AI at the table.
Also on the list
Ask about any of these for your conference, board retreat, or team.
- How to Integrate AI in Fundraising Without Compromising Your Values →
- Fundraising in the AI Era
- Effective Donor Engagement
- Fundraising Leadership NOW
- AI for Planned Giving →
Bring Anne to your stage
Email Kate Rivera with the event, the audience, and the date. A rough idea is enough to start, and she will get you on Anne's calendar.