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Kevin Allan Learned Fundraising From Both Sides of the Desk
He has advised fundraisers, run their departments and returned to the consultancy where he started. The result is a career built on knowing that a campaign should leave an institution stronger than it found it.
Changing Our World Works Both Sides of the Giving Table
The New York consultancy has spent 27 years translating between donors, companies and institutions. Its real product is not generosity. It is alignment.
The Fundraiser Who Asks Before It Tells
For nearly four decades, O'Brien Garrett has made a business of listening to donors before asking them for money. The method is old-fashioned, measurable, and unusually suited to moments when the public mood moves faster than a campaign calendar.
Ann Fellman Thinks Fundraising Software Should Make Room for the Human Part
After more than 25 years marketing enterprise technology, Bloomerang's CMO has arrived at a plainspoken thesis: better data matters most when it gives fundraisers more time to notice people.
Madeline Turner Is Teaching Fundraising Software to Remember the Human
EverTrue's CMO built a career around a deceptively simple idea: better data matters most when it helps people pay better attention to one another.
EverTrue Built a Machine for the 97% of Donors Most Fundraisers Ignore - Here’s What Advancement Teams Can Steal
Most institutions reserve personal attention for a sliver of their donor file. EverTrue’s bet is that better data, disciplined cadences, and a broader definition of a portfolio can make the neglected middle worth knowing.
Sarah Chamberlin Made the Message Part of the Mission
At CAMH Foundation, Sarah Chamberlin treated communication as infrastructure: a way to connect a public institution, a donor and a reason to act. Now, through Pin Drop Communications, she is carrying that discipline into a practice of her own.
Brady Josephson Is Turning Generosity Into a Growth Discipline
After two decades spent testing how people give, the Canadian marketer has returned home to lead World Vision Canada - carrying a career built on curiosity, experiments and a stubborn belief that generosity can grow.
Ottawa's $500 Million Bet: How a Hospital Foundation Made Infrastructure Personal
The Ottawa Hospital Foundation turned an intimidating capital project into a citywide invitation - and has raised $404 million toward a $500 million goal. Its playbook is less about gala glamour than a disciplined mix of giant anchor gifts, recurring donors, personal stories and proof of impact.
Gravyty
The Boston company teaching universities and nonprofits how to raise more money with less busywork - by handing fundraisers an AI that writes the first draft.
Vance Roush
Vance Roush is the founder and CEO of Overflow, a fintech platform that makes it simple for churches, nonprofits, and schools to accept stock, crypto, and cash donations online. A first-generation Asian American raised in Kent, Washington, he studied at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business, spent time at Google and ADARA, and co-founded VIVE Church in the Bay Area. His work as the church's finance lead exposed how clunky it was to donate appreciated assets, which led him to launch Overflow in 2020. The company has raised roughly $30M, including a $20M Series B in 2024, and Roush frames his mission around Proverbs 11:24 and building an 'Amazon for giving.'
Overflow
Overflow is a faith-and-nonprofit fintech that lets churches, ministries, universities and charities accept the kinds of gifts most donation tools ignore - publicly traded stock, cryptocurrency, donor-advised funds, ACH, cards and digital wallets - all through one online flow that replaces the old fax-and-paperwork process for asset-based giving. Founded by former Google engineer Vance Roush after his own church struggled to accept stock gifts, the company reports that donors who give appreciated assets tend to give far more than they would in cash, and it has expanded into NFC 'Tap' giving hardware, an AI-assisted giving product and analytics. Overflow raised a $20M Series B in February 2024 and says it serves more than 1,000 organizations.
Resilia
Resilia is a New Orleans-based B2B SaaS company that helps nonprofits build organizational capacity and helps funders - foundations, corporations, governments and banks - go beyond the grant with coaching, technical assistance, and impact intelligence. Founded by serial entrepreneur Sevetri Wilson (who first built the nonprofit-formation tool ExemptMeNow), the two-sided platform pairs on-demand courses, templates and fundraising tools for grassroots organizations with dashboards that let grantmakers track and scale impact across their portfolios. Resilia raised a $35M Series B in 2022 - the largest venture round ever for a solo Black-female-founded tech company.
Gerry Poirier
Gerry Poirier is the founder and CEO of AngeLink, billed as the world's first social crowdfunding platform powered by women. After more than two decades on Wall Street trading floors at Credit Suisse and Lazard, where she was often the only woman in the room, she built an AI-driven, fraud-resistant fundraising platform that has grown to roughly 55,000 active users across 100 currencies and raised over $7.3 million in seed funding. A Wharton-trained, globe-trotting risk-taker based in Naples, Florida, she also runs the AngeLink Community Foundation, a 501(c)(3) making direct impact grants.
Bloomerang
Bloomerang is an Indianapolis-based software company that builds a complete giving platform for nonprofits, combining donor management (CRM), online fundraising, and volunteer management into one system. Founded in 2012 on the insight that nonprofits were losing the majority of first-time donors, Bloomerang centers its product on donor retention and relationship-building rather than one-time transactions. It now serves more than 24,000 small and mid-sized nonprofit organizations.