{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Elevate Your Event","title":"The Age of Agentic AI: How One Fundraiser Can Now Do the Work of Five","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2977,"description":"AI isn’t just writing emails anymore—it’s reshaping how nonprofits plan events, engage donors, and run their entire fundraising operation.\nIn this episode of Elevate Your Event, Jeff Porter and Mark Laba are joined by Handbid’s VP of Software Development, Taylor Romero, to unpack what “agentic AI” actually means—and why it’s a game-changer for lean nonprofit teams.\nFrom automating sponsorship outreach and auction procurement to rethinking guest check-in and event analytics, the conversation explores how AI can make one fundraiser as effective as a team of five—without losing the human touch donors care about most.\nIf you’ve been wondering where to start with AI (beyond rewriting emails), this episode gives you practical ideas you can try right away.\n\nWhat You’ll Learn in This Episode\n\n1. AI won’t replace fundraisers—it will multiply their impact\n\nAgent-based AI systems can now automate donor outreach, sponsorship follow-ups, and auction item solicitation—tasks that traditionally take weeks of manual effort.\n“AI doesn’t replace the fundraiser. It makes one fundraiser as effective as a team of five.”\n\n2. We’re moving from building software to growing it\n\nTaylor explains a powerful mindset shift: instead of engineering software feature-by-feature, organizations are learning to guide AI systems that evolve solutions organically.\nThis opens the door for smaller teams—and even non-developers—to create tools tailored to their workflows.\n\n3. Conversational interfaces will reshape event operations\n\nThink beyond forms and dashboards.\nFuture event tech interactions will increasingly happen through:chatvoiceautomated assistantsreal-time conversational workflowsThat means easier guest list updates, smoother check-ins, and fewer day-of-event headaches.\n\n4. AI already helps automate fundraising workflows today\n\nJeff shares real examples from a live campaign where AI helped:identify past donorsanalyze email history for outreach candidatesbuild targeted email sequencesremove...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/tCB5rzUDpu8CRPF_lPRdW5E3E7cR3VgOmKoGSrR1Gw4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQ0MTY4LzE2OTIy/OTM2MjUtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}