No budget for a consultant. No IT department. Just you, a donor list, and the quiet assumption that you'll somehow have this handled. Start here — with 30 AI prompts for the work you actually do. Free.
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You don't need another think-piece about the future of the sector. You need to know what to type, what to trust, and what to keep your donors' names out of. The Prompt Library is exactly that — 30 prompts for grant drafts, thank-yous, meeting prep, the reporting that eats your Fridays. Copy, paste, done. And a clear line on what never touches a free tool.
Everyone is yelling at you about AI. Most of them are selling something. Here's what they skip: you're not behind. You're busy. Those are different problems, and only one of them is yours to fix.
92% of nonprofits already use AI. Almost nobody has a plan for it. You're not the exception — you're the norm. The tech bros just wing it louder.
This isn't a reason to avoid AI. It's a reason to stop buying it like a lottery ticket. The organizations getting real results aren't the ones with the fanciest tool. They're the ones who know what's safe to put in — and what never goes near a free tool at all.
Virtuous / Fundraising.AI, 2026 Nonprofit AI Adoption Report — a survey of 346 nonprofits. Only 7% report major impact from AI. Almost everyone is winging it. That's not a failure. It's a whole sector figuring this out at the same time.
Why Emily
Twenty years in nonprofit fundraising. Emily sits on two Digital Governance Standards Institute (DGSI) technical committees writing Canada's national AI standards, and runs Brazen's own operations on a governed AI system. She's not selling you software. She's teaching you to use the tools well — and safely — on the work you already do.
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The point isn't to use AI. It's to get your evenings back.
AI should give you back time for the work only a human can do. If it doesn't, we're using it wrong.
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