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Introducing Your New Fundraising Agent

The first AI teammate built to find your next $1M in funding — automatically.

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Leandrew Robinson
December 2, 2025

The Final Push, Reinvented

Every nonprofit knows this feeling: Giving Tuesday arrives, and suddenly the entire year compresses into one final sprint. You’ve done the impossible — you’ve delivered life-changing programs, built community, collected stories, and kept your mission running against all odds.

But the hardest part isn’t the work itself.
It’s connecting that work to consistent, predictable, sustainable funding.

Fundraising research is slow, manual, and exhausting. It requires hours of scanning funder websites, opening old 990s, reading priorities, checking past grantees, and trying to guess whether a foundation will actually see you.

That kind of time is a luxury most nonprofits don’t have.

So today, on Giving Tuesday, we’re introducing a way forward.

**✨ Meet the PosterChild Fundraising Agent

Your new AI-powered fundraising employee**

Think of the Fundraising Agent as the teammate you always wished you had — the one who does the meticulous, behind-the-scenes research and hands you exactly what you need to secure funding.

Instead of spending weeks digging through philanthropic data, your Agent works in minutes.

Behind the scenes, it invests the equivalent of hundreds of hours researching funders for you — reading priorities, analyzing past grantees, scanning mission statements, identifying patterns, and refining a list down to the funders most likely to support your work.

And it doesn’t stop there.

It writes your strategy.
It prepares your outreach.
It builds your funder intelligence.
It gives you the key contacts.
It drafts the story you should tell each funder.

This isn’t a tool.
It’s a teammate.

**Why We Built It

A solution to the biggest barrier in nonprofit fundraising**

Our partners — from Colorwave to UC Berkeley — have already transformed how they tell their stories through PosterChild, generating hundreds of campaign pages and amplifying the voices of their communities.

But the question everyone still faces is:
Who will fund the next chapter?

Nonprofits don’t struggle with mission.
They struggle with capacity.
Research is slow. Data is scattered. And too much fundraising is still left to guesswork.

The Fundraising Agent changes that.

🔍 What the Fundraising Agent Actually Does (Automatically)

For every PosterChild customer, the Fundraising Agent runs a full Prospect Discovery Workflow — the kind of research normally done by a dedicated development team.

1. It searches hundreds of potential funders

  • Scans organizations similar to yours

  • Searches priority-aligned funders

  • Analyzes keywords, impact areas, geographies

This alone saves the average organization 200–500 hours per year.

2. It auto-builds your prospect list

  • Adds “promising” funders

  • Runs deep match analysis

  • Generates intelligence for each

  • Automatically hides funders under a 60% match

This ensures your team sees only high-signal prospects — not noise.

3. It identifies your top 20 highest-match funders

Each with:

  • Match score (80%+)

  • Ask ranges

  • Whether they’re relationship-based or application-based

  • Application deadlines

  • Key decision-maker contacts (emails + LinkedIn)

4. It prepares your outreach strategy

For each top funder, your Agent delivers:

  • Why they are a strong match

  • A recommended approach (“what to say”)

  • Notes for your executive director or development lead

  • A quick action button to connect on LinkedIn

  • Suggested warm-intro pathways via mutual connections

It’s everything you need to make your first outreach purposeful — not a shot in the dark.

🎯 The Output: A Complete Prospect Discovery Report in Less Than 48 Hours

Here’s a glimpse of the type of summary your Fundraising Agent produces:

  • Total Funders Researched: 730

  • Found from similar organizations: 543

  • Found through keyword matching: 187

  • High-potential funders identified: 20

  • Potential Funding Identified: $1.7M–$4.0M

  • Research Time Saved: ~365 hours

It also tells you:

  • Who to contact

  • How to contact them

  • What to say

  • How much to ask for

  • When to apply

  • What story to lead with

And best of all — it gives you momentum, fast.

Your Fundraising Agent ensures every organization receives meaningful value within the first 48 hours of joining PosterChild.

🛠 Under the Hood: What the Fundraising Agent Does So You Don’t Have To

To generate your Prospect Summary email, the Fundraising Agent performs dozens of tasks automatically:

  • Compiles and cleans funding data from hundreds of sources

  • Classifies funders by relationship vs. application

  • Constructs a custom “match score” using your mission + community stories

  • Extracts key contacts and verifies roles

  • Creates a tailored story pitch for each funder

  • Writes a recommended engagement strategy

  • Synthesizes everything into a single actionable summary

  • Adds the best funders to your PosterChild dashboard

  • Assigns tasks to your ED or development director

This is the type of work an experienced development associate or prospect researcher would normally complete over multiple weeks.

Your Agent does it in minutes.
Every month.
On autopilot.

🚀 Why This Matters: Predictable Funding Is Finally Possible

With your Fundraising Agent:

  • You no longer start every year-end sprint from zero.

  • You no longer guess which funders care about your mission.

  • You no longer waste time chasing cold leads.

You finally have a repeatable system that transforms community stories into consistent support and reliable growth.

This is the next chapter of PosterChild’s promise:
Tell every story. Make funding inevitable.

22Beacon (formerly CSDC)

mission

To eliminate barriers to access, choice, and equity in under-resourced communities nationwide.

AfroPlay Oakland

mission

To achieve oneness and healing among all Black families in the African Diaspora by providing a sacred, supportive intergenerational gathering space that honors the Black experience and empowers Black families through fun, thoughtful, and educational Afrocentric programming.

Berkeley Public Schools Fund

mission

To champion equitable public education for students, families, and our community through grants, volunteers, and STEM programs that center equity for the benefit of all students.

Boys & Girls Clubs (BGCB)

mission

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

C4ES (Exceptional Community Connections)

mission

To empower community-centered organizations by providing innovative solutions that enhance equity and social justice in urban areas.

Climate Health Now

mission

To organize and mobilize the California health community to advocate for equitable systems-level climate action that supports health for all.

Colorwave (The Colorwave Project, Inc.)

mission

To help reduce America’s racial wealth gap by connecting underrepresented professionals to opportunities across the innovation economy.

Community Catalyst

mission

To build the power of people to create a health system rooted in racial equity and health justice, and a society where health is a right for all.

DevColor

mission

To empower Black software engineers, technologists, and executives to help one another grow into industry leaders, advance careers, and transform the tech ecosystem.

Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation

mission

To preserve and promote the legacy of the Black Panther Party through exhibitions, public programming, public art, education, and archival preservation.

East Bay Community Foundation

mission

To transform political, social, and economic outcomes for all East Bay residents by partnering with donors, social movements, and the community.

HiiiWAV

mission

To help Black musician-entrepreneurs of all genders benefit from their music, build lasting businesses, and uplift their communities by growing profitable, culturally rich, and socially impactful companies that create generational wealth and timeless music in the Black community.

Hispanic Heritage Foundation

mission

To identify, inspire, prepare, and connect Latino leaders in the community, classroom, and workforce, advancing education, workforce development, societal impact, and leadership with culture at the core.

Houston LEAD

mission

To prepare youth from underserved neighborhoods for success by providing life skills and exposure to new opportunities.

Hyde Park School of Dance

mission

To cultivate a love of dance and strength of body, mind, and character that will benefit students throughout their lives.

KaiXR

mission

To narrow the digital divide by giving students hands-on opportunities to in-demand technologies, preparing them for future careers, and fostering a culture of innovation, critical thinking, and collaboration.

Kingmakers of Oakland

mission

To reimagine systems of education, culture, and wellness while driving narrative change from deficit to asset-framing, celebrating Black boys' inherent greatness and improving educational and life outcomes from Pre-K to PhD through evidence-based programs and community storytelling.

New Media Ventures

mission

To invest in entrepreneurs and activists building progressive power in the United States by supporting media and tech startups that disrupt politics and catalyze societal change.

Oakland Ed Fund

mission

The Oakland Public Education Fund leads the development and investment of community resources in Oakland public schools so that all students can learn, grow, and thrive.

Oakland School For the Arts

mission

Oakland School for the Arts is a diverse and inclusive public 6-12 charter school that blends immersive, robust arts with comprehensive academics, providing integrated opportunities for collaboration, expression and personal growth.

SMASH

mission

To build a strong, diverse, and socially conscious tech workforce by leveling the playing field through academic learning and experiential engagement for high school and college students.

Shared Harvest

mission

To disrupt the student lending industry by offering innovative opportunities for professionals to earn debt relief while reinvesting in building stronger communities through service and volunteerism.

Stiles Hall

mission

To create pathways to self-determination, promote racial justice, democratic values, and uplift community, while welcoming students from all backgrounds.

Talk A Mile

mission

Talk A Mile elevates the voices of young leaders in conversations about policing, public safety and community. When people engage in 1:1 conversations while walking together, then they build bridges, connection and agency.

The Color of Autism Foundation

mission

Championing Inclusion by Design and Empowering the Autism Community. The Color of Autism Foundation is dedicated to fostering a more inclusive and equitable society where autistic individuals—particularly those from underserved communities—are empowered to thrive. It offers education and support to African-American families affected by autism, addressing inequities in healthcare, education, and societal acknowledgment.

The Hidden Genius Project

mission

To train and mentor Black male youth in technology creation, entrepreneurship, and leadership skills to transform their lives and communities.

Town Nights

mission

To provide consistent, safe spaces for community healing, restoration, and engagement, with the goal of reducing violence and supporting the well-being of all community members.

UC Berkeley

mission

To support and advance the mission of the University of California, Berkeley by encouraging private philanthropy, serving as a community ambassador, and advising campus leadership on specific issues.

Urban League of Greater San Francisco Bay Area

mission

The Urban League of Greater San Francisco Bay Area is focused on the economic empowerment, knowledge, access, and equity for African-Americans and other underserved communities. The organization aims to join other leaders, organizations, and corporations in the Bay Area in developing and continuing social, financial, housing, health, and professional programs, as well as policies that enhance and improve equity.

STories

Turn your community stories into predictable funding.

Ready to unlock your community stories and grow predictable funding? See how PosterChild can transform your nonprofit's impact.

🎉 Introducing Your New Fundraising Agent

The first AI teammate built to find your next $1M in funding — automatically.

Leandrew Robinson
December 2, 2025
8
min read

The Final Push, Reinvented

Every nonprofit knows this feeling: Giving Tuesday arrives, and suddenly the entire year compresses into one final sprint. You’ve done the impossible — you’ve delivered life-changing programs, built community, collected stories, and kept your mission running against all odds.

But the hardest part isn’t the work itself.
It’s connecting that work to consistent, predictable, sustainable funding.

Fundraising research is slow, manual, and exhausting. It requires hours of scanning funder websites, opening old 990s, reading priorities, checking past grantees, and trying to guess whether a foundation will actually see you.

That kind of time is a luxury most nonprofits don’t have.

So today, on Giving Tuesday, we’re introducing a way forward.

**✨ Meet the PosterChild Fundraising Agent

Your new AI-powered fundraising employee**

Think of the Fundraising Agent as the teammate you always wished you had — the one who does the meticulous, behind-the-scenes research and hands you exactly what you need to secure funding.

Instead of spending weeks digging through philanthropic data, your Agent works in minutes.

Behind the scenes, it invests the equivalent of hundreds of hours researching funders for you — reading priorities, analyzing past grantees, scanning mission statements, identifying patterns, and refining a list down to the funders most likely to support your work.

And it doesn’t stop there.

It writes your strategy.
It prepares your outreach.
It builds your funder intelligence.
It gives you the key contacts.
It drafts the story you should tell each funder.

This isn’t a tool.
It’s a teammate.

**Why We Built It

A solution to the biggest barrier in nonprofit fundraising**

Our partners — from Colorwave to UC Berkeley — have already transformed how they tell their stories through PosterChild, generating hundreds of campaign pages and amplifying the voices of their communities.

But the question everyone still faces is:
Who will fund the next chapter?

Nonprofits don’t struggle with mission.
They struggle with capacity.
Research is slow. Data is scattered. And too much fundraising is still left to guesswork.

The Fundraising Agent changes that.

🔍 What the Fundraising Agent Actually Does (Automatically)

For every PosterChild customer, the Fundraising Agent runs a full Prospect Discovery Workflow — the kind of research normally done by a dedicated development team.

1. It searches hundreds of potential funders

  • Scans organizations similar to yours

  • Searches priority-aligned funders

  • Analyzes keywords, impact areas, geographies

This alone saves the average organization 200–500 hours per year.

2. It auto-builds your prospect list

  • Adds “promising” funders

  • Runs deep match analysis

  • Generates intelligence for each

  • Automatically hides funders under a 60% match

This ensures your team sees only high-signal prospects — not noise.

3. It identifies your top 20 highest-match funders

Each with:

  • Match score (80%+)

  • Ask ranges

  • Whether they’re relationship-based or application-based

  • Application deadlines

  • Key decision-maker contacts (emails + LinkedIn)

4. It prepares your outreach strategy

For each top funder, your Agent delivers:

  • Why they are a strong match

  • A recommended approach (“what to say”)

  • Notes for your executive director or development lead

  • A quick action button to connect on LinkedIn

  • Suggested warm-intro pathways via mutual connections

It’s everything you need to make your first outreach purposeful — not a shot in the dark.

🎯 The Output: A Complete Prospect Discovery Report in Less Than 48 Hours

Here’s a glimpse of the type of summary your Fundraising Agent produces:

  • Total Funders Researched: 730

  • Found from similar organizations: 543

  • Found through keyword matching: 187

  • High-potential funders identified: 20

  • Potential Funding Identified: $1.7M–$4.0M

  • Research Time Saved: ~365 hours

It also tells you:

  • Who to contact

  • How to contact them

  • What to say

  • How much to ask for

  • When to apply

  • What story to lead with

And best of all — it gives you momentum, fast.

Your Fundraising Agent ensures every organization receives meaningful value within the first 48 hours of joining PosterChild.

🛠 Under the Hood: What the Fundraising Agent Does So You Don’t Have To

To generate your Prospect Summary email, the Fundraising Agent performs dozens of tasks automatically:

  • Compiles and cleans funding data from hundreds of sources

  • Classifies funders by relationship vs. application

  • Constructs a custom “match score” using your mission + community stories

  • Extracts key contacts and verifies roles

  • Creates a tailored story pitch for each funder

  • Writes a recommended engagement strategy

  • Synthesizes everything into a single actionable summary

  • Adds the best funders to your PosterChild dashboard

  • Assigns tasks to your ED or development director

This is the type of work an experienced development associate or prospect researcher would normally complete over multiple weeks.

Your Agent does it in minutes.
Every month.
On autopilot.

🚀 Why This Matters: Predictable Funding Is Finally Possible

With your Fundraising Agent:

  • You no longer start every year-end sprint from zero.

  • You no longer guess which funders care about your mission.

  • You no longer waste time chasing cold leads.

You finally have a repeatable system that transforms community stories into consistent support and reliable growth.

This is the next chapter of PosterChild’s promise:
Tell every story. Make funding inevitable.

Leandrew Robinson
December 2, 2025
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