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Get Your Board to Help With Fundraising
Turns a give/get expectation into specific tasks board members will actually do, matched to what each person is willing and able to contribute. Use...
Move a Donor Toward a Major Gift
Plans the sequence from interest to ask for one specific donor — what to learn, who should ask, how much, and the exact words — with the follow-thr...
Build a Monthly Giving Program Worth the Setup
Designs a recurring giving program — the ask, the levels, the failed-payment recovery, and the stewardship that keeps people enrolled — and tests w...
Keep Donors From Lapsing and Win Back the Ones Who Did
Builds the second-gift path that most donors never get, sets lapse triggers you can act on, and decides which lapsed donors are worth reactivating....
Write an Annual Appeal That Doesn't Sound Like Everyone Else's
Builds a year-end or annual appeal around one specific story and a concrete ask, segmented so lapsed, new and loyal donors don't all get the same l...
Write a Letter of Inquiry That Gets You Invited to Apply
Fits the problem, the ask, the fit and the evidence into the two pages a program officer will read, and leads with what the funder cares about rath...
Find Foundation Funders Worth Applying To
Builds a prospect list from what foundations have actually funded rather than what their website says, using 990-PF grant records, and ranks by fit...
Write a Case for Support People Will Actually Give To
Builds the master fundraising document your appeals, grants and major-gift conversations all draw from — anchored on the donor's role in the outcom...
Handle a Raise That Isn't Coming Together
Diagnoses why a round has stalled and lays out the real options while you still have cash to choose between them. Use it when you're months in with...
Apply for a Grant or Non-Dilutive Funding
Works out which non-dilutive funding you actually qualify for and writes the application against the assessor's criteria rather than your own enthu...
Prepare a Data Room and Survive Diligence
Assembles what investors will ask for, finds the problems before they do, and decides how to disclose the ones you can't fix. Use it as soon as a t...
Understand What a Term Sheet Actually Costs You
Translates a term sheet into what it means for your ownership, your control, and your outcome in the cases that matter. Use it before you respond t...
Prepare for the Questions That Kill Pitches
Surfaces the questions that will expose the weakest part of your story and builds answers that hold up under a second and third follow-up. Use it t...
Write an Investor Cold Email That Earns a Meeting
Writes the short, forwardable outreach email that gets a first call, and the intro request that gets a warm path instead. Use it for every investor...
Build an Investor Target List and Work Out Who Actually Fits
Turns a scattershot outreach plan into a researched, sequenced list of investors who genuinely invest in businesses like yours. Use it before sendi...
Write the Pitch Deck Narrative Before You Design a Slide
Builds the argument a deck has to make, in order, so the design stage has something to carry. Use it before opening a template.
Build a Financial Model an Investor Will Believe
Constructs a driver-based financial model with assumptions you can defend individually, instead of a spreadsheet that grows 20% a month because it ...
Size Your Market Without Making Up a TAM
Builds a bottom-up market size from counts and prices you can defend, and kills the top-down percentage-of-a-huge-number slide. Use it before any p...
Work Out How Much to Raise and What It Buys You
Sizes a round from the milestone it has to reach rather than from a round name, and tests whether that milestone clears the next bar. Use it before...
Decide Whether You Should Raise Money at All
Tests whether venture funding is the right instrument for your business, or whether debt, revenue, or patience would serve you better. Use it befor...
Guides on fundraising
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How to Use AI to Prepare for a Fundraise
One rule governs everything: the model never touches your numbers. Within that, the highest-return use is adversarial — having it play a ...
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