How does nonprofit AI help with fundraising?

AI helps fundraisers accomplish more by generating draft content, campaign ideas, and messaging based on your inputs. It’s designed to save time, not replace your voice or strategy.

Which fundraising tasks can be automated?

Many of the administrative tasks fundraisers handle every day can be automated or simplified using a fundraising CRM. This often includes scheduling communications, sending receipts and acknowledgments, creating segmented donor lists, assigning follow-up tasks, and reporting. With DonorPerfect, automation helps with triggering follow-up tasks when donors take key actions, sending timely receipts and thank-you emails, entering data from online donations, updating donor addresses, scheduling reports for delivery, and guiding donors through journeys based on their engagement. The extent to which tasks can be automated depends on your CRM and how your organization works. A good place to start is identifying where your team spends the most time on repetitive tasks such as data entry, follow-ups, or reporting, and looking for tools that can reduce that workload.

What shouldn’t be automated?

Authentic donor relationships should always remain human. Automation should support, not replace personal conversations, stewardship, and trust-building. For example, face-to-face donor interactions must be facilitated by a nonprofit professional, but follow-up emails and contact assignments can be automated using nonprofit software. It is best to lead with your creativity and specialization, only leaning on automation to streamline repetitive tasks. AI can provide a great starting point for creative projects. For example, the free DonorPerfect Fundraiser bot allows nonprofit professionals to enter a few details about their campaign to instantly generate drafts of fundraising communications.

Does DonorPerfect’s nonprofit AI make decisions for me?

No. DonorPerfect’s AI is designed to support fundraisers, not replace judgment or strategy. It helps you generate drafts and get started faster, while you remain in control of messaging, relationships, and decisions.

Automated Fundraising Tools

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Donor relationships come first

Time is one of the most precious resources in the nonprofit community. While you’re busy making donor connections, there is data maintenance waiting to be completed—record upkeep, task assignments, gift receipts, and more. That’s where we come in. Our automation tools empower nonprofit teams to accomplish mission-critical tasks with more efficiency and less effort.

Automatic payment processing and receipting

Fundraising that doesn’t stall

Communications go out on time. Tasks get completed. Reports are ready when they’re needed.

Nonprofit AI helps you get started, and fundraising automation ensures consistent follow-through, even when your attention is elsewhere.

Tools for every stage of fundraising

DonorPerfect AI and automation tools work together to support your day-to-day charitable work.

WRITE APPEALS FASTER

Use the DonorPerfect AI writing assistant to draft appeals, emails, and campaign messages for a strong starting point. Then edit and personalize as needed.

CREATE CAMPAIGNS IN MINUTES

Develop multichannel marketing campaigns faster, including content and scheduling with Constant Contact. Go from idea to execution in minutes.

TRIGGER AUTOMATIC FOLLOW-UPS

Create tasks, send emails, or notify staff when donors take actions like giving for the first time, reaching a milestone, or missing a pledge payment.

SEND REPORTS AUTOMATICALLY

Schedule key fundraising reports to arrive automatically in stakeholders’ inboxes, keeping everyone aligned and informed.

IDENTIFY HIGH-POTENTIAL DONORS

Use AI-driven insights from DonorSearch to help find donors most likely to respond to your next appeal, give again, or upgrade their gift.

SET DONORS ON A STRATEGIC PATH

Guide donors through journeys that automatically enroll them in welcome, retention, and re-engagement communications.

PRIORITIZE THE RIGHT DONORS

Built-in donor scores automatically highlight strong supporters and those who need re-engagement, so your team knows where to focus without running any reports.

AUTOMATE DATA ACCURACY

Keep donor addresses up to date automatically, so your fundraising communications and receipts stay accurate and reliable.

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Explore our top-rated integrations

DonorPerfect partners with the best in nonprofit technology to bring even more value to your system. Click on each partner to learn more!

Learn how to leverage fundraising automation

Maintain consistent, relationship-focused fundraising with the help of nonprofit AI and fundraising automation.

The Monthly Giving Success Kit

Instantly boost retention with the ease and efficiency of automatic monthly giving, from processing to receipting.

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The Clean Data Checklist for Nonprofits

Set standards and get your team on the same page, down to salutations, spellings, and nicknames.

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Your Digital Donor Thank-You Kit

Learn best practices for showing your gratitude to online givers, including donor segmentation and email scheduling.

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Fundraising that’s still personal

Fundraising automation is most powerful when it stays in the background. It handles routine tasks so you can hold personal conversations, show gratitude, and build trust.