HeyJaredAbundant Vision Fundraising Podcast
Spend 20 minutes each week with host Tom Dauber as he shares insights, tips and expert interviews to help you on your journey to majorgiftmastery.
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From 6 Hours to 15 Minutes: The AI Workflows Actually Saving Fundraisers Time (opens the original)
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Tom picks up where the last episode left off and gets specific about what's working in his own shop. He walks through the report that used to eat six hours and three people's time and now takes fifteen minutes, how he builds a data room to train AI on his organization's voice for grant writing, and why he switched from ChatGPT to Claude for anything that needs to sound human. He also gets honest about what he hasn't tried yet, including agentic AI and virtual engagement officers, and closes with
AI Won't Build Your Donor Relationships. Here's What It Should Do Instead (opens the original)
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Thirty years ago Tom was working off a printed list of donor names and mail merges felt cutting edge. Today he's using Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini every week. In this episode he walks through how he actually thinks about AI in fundraising: where it earns trust, where it breaks it, and the two questions he asks himself before using it on anything donor facing. He covers the real risk of feeding sensitive donor data into free AI tools, why a chatbot should never be the one thanking a first time do
Abundant Vision Academy, Parts 9 & 10: Making the Ask, Closing the Gift & Stewarding Donors for Life (opens the original)
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This is it. In the final installment of Abundant Vision Academy, Tom walks you through the moment every fundraiser has been building toward: making the ask, sitting in the silence, and knowing exactly what to do whether the donor says yes or no. You'll hear why you should never fill the silence after you make the ask, how to negotiate when a donor pushes back on the amount, and how to structure a gift across multiple years to make a large commitment feel accessible. Tom also covers the two pocke
Abundant Vision Academy, Parts 6, 7 & 8: Running the Donor Meeting, Handling Objections & the Pre-Solicitation (opens the original)
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You got the meeting. Now what? In this installment of Abundant Vision Academy, Tom walks through exactly how to run a donor meeting from start to finish, and why the first 15 minutes have nothing to do with money. You'll learn why you must be upfront about your role as a fundraiser from the very first meeting, how to transition from rapport building to your presentation without it feeling awkward, and what to do when a donor shows up angry. Spoiler: an angry donor is almost always better than an
Abundant Vision Academy, Parts 4 & 5: How to Contact Donors, Handle Objections & Get the Meeting (opens the original)
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Getting the meeting is half the battle. In this installment of Abundant Vision Academy, Tom gets practical and tactical on exactly how to reach out to donors, what to say when you do, and how to keep the conversation moving when they push back. You'll hear Tom's actual phone script, why you should never ask if it's a good time to talk, how to use a referral to get past a gatekeeper, and why meeting in a donor's home or office will tell you more than any wealth screening tool ever could. Tom also
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