Fundraising Day - Hands-On Work Session for Fundraisers Ready to Use AI

🧠 Stop the Leaks: A One-Day, Hands-On Work Session for Fundraisers Ready to Use AI (Without Losing the Human Touch)

This isn’t a conference. This is a work session.

If you’re overwhelmed, under-resourced, and tired of hearing about “AI” without any idea how it actually helps — this one-day session is for you.

We’ll roll up our sleeves and use human-guided, human-monitored AI tools to solve real problems in your fundraising. You’ll leave with clarity, customized tools, and work that’s already done.

This is recommended as a full-day workshop. (8:30am to 4:00pm) However, we understand people have time and accessibility needs.

If you're coming for the morning only, here is the high-level agenda:

8:30AM - 9:00AM Registration/Breakfast

9:00AM - 12:00PM AM Session

12:00PM - 1PM Lunch (optional)

• Donor Journey Leak Audit Walkthrough
• Organization Lifecycle Diagnostic
• Mapping AI to your Leaks
• Create Your AI Use Policy
• Intro to ChatGPT Hands-On

If you're coming for the afternoon only, you're not expected to be an advanced AI user, but participants should have some level of comfort/experience with AI. Here is the high-level agenda:

12:00PM - 1PM Lunch

1PM - 4PM PM Session

• Hands-On AI Problem Solving Workshop
• Real-Time Coaching

👣 What You’ll Do:

• Audit Your Donor Journey: Find out exactly where you’re leaking leads, gifts, or repeat donors
• Match Tools to Problems: Get tailored AI solutions based on your nonprofit’s stage and greatest fundraising challenge
• Use GPTs with Purpose: Practice using custom ChatGPT tools to:
• Write donor emails and proposals
• Design upgrade campaigns
• Build workflows
• Draft content that sounds like you
• Craft Your AI Use Policy: Ground your work in values, trust, and practical boundaries
  

🧠 You’ll Leave With:

• A clear diagnosis of what’s blocking your fundraising growth
• At least one core leak plugged using AI-assisted strategies
• A starter AI policy for your org
• Familiarity with tools and prompts you can use immediately
• Less stress. More clarity. Real work done.
  

💡 What This Is:

✅ Practical ✅ Collaborative ✅ Guided by your mission ✅ Rooted in your voice, values, and vision

❌ What This Isn’t:

✘ Tech for tech’s sake ✘ Sitting back and watching a keynote ✘ Robots taking over your work

This is about fundraisers staying in the driver’s seat, supported by tools that make the road smoother.

About Rhea Wong

Rhea helps nonprofits bring in more money, faster. Her sweet spot is major individual gifts. She’s raised millions of private dollars and teaches teams how to build simple, repeatable giving programs that last.

She still knows her way around grants, galas, and sponsorships, but today she’s focused on mixing human connection with smart tech. AI handles the rote work—prospect research, first-pass copy, data cleanup—so fundraisers can do what only people can: listen, coach, and close transformational gifts.

The New York nonprofit world listens when she talks. Media outlets tap her for frank advice, and honors include a SmartCEO Brava Award (2015) and NY Nonprofit Media’s 40 Under 40 (2017).

At home in Brooklyn with her husband and her very spoiled dog Stella, Rhea hosts the Nonprofit Lowdown podcast, pushes her book Get That Money, Honey! and tries new jokes at open-mic nights.

Connect with her on LinkedIn, Facebook, or Instagram, or dive deeper at rheawong.com.

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We would love for you to spend the day with us, but we understand there can be time restrictions so we have 3 ticket options:

1. Full day from 8:30am to 4:00pm (breakfast and registration from 8:30 to 9:00am)
2. Breakfast and Session 1 only from 8:30am to 12:00pm (let us know if you'd like to stay for lunch when you fill out the order form!)
3. Lunch and Session 2 only from 12pm to 4:00pm

This is recommended as a full-day workshop. (8:30am to 4:00pm) However, we understand people have time and accessibility needs.

If you're coming for the morning only, here is the high-level agenda:

8:30AM - 9:00AM Registration/Breakfast

9:00AM - 12:00PM AM Session

12:00PM - 1PM Lunch (optional)

• Donor Journey Leak Audit Walkthrough
• Organization Lifecycle Diagnostic
• Mapping AI to your Leaks
• Create Your AI Use Policy
• Intro to ChatGPT Hands-On

If you're coming for the afternoon only, you're not expected to be an advanced AI user, but participants should have some level of comfort/experience with AI. Here is the high-level agenda:

12:00PM - 1PM Lunch

1PM - 4PM PM Session

• Hands-On AI Problem Solving Workshop
• Real-Time Coaching

While this event is free, we do have limited capacity so please only sign up if you are able to attend. If you can no longer attend after registering, please let us know by email [email protected].

Please be sure to fully complete your registration or tickets will not be held for you! After you enter your name and email, you MUST continue on to the full registration form. Please do not stop after the name/email step! After you enter your name and email, you will see "order successful" but you must continue and complete this entire form to be counted in.