Givzey | Version2.ai Partner with Washburn & McGoldrick to Power Fundraising-Specific Knowledge Base Behind Autonomous Fundraising

Givzey | Version2.ai Partner with Washburn & McGoldrick to Power Fundraising-Specific Knowledge Base Behind Autonomous Fundraising

Givzey | Version.2ai and Washburn & McGoldrick today announced a groundbreaking partnership that will provide the specific and strategic expertise and frontline-tested guidance that forms the core of the Fundraising Knowledge Base behind Virtual Engagement Officers (VEOs), the first autonomous fundraisers in the world.

As nonprofit organizations confront a persistent shortage in frontline fundraising capacity, VEOs are redefining what’s possible by engaging donors directly, at scale, and with one-to-one relationships that lead to the natural outcome of giving. Thanks to this partnership, VEOs will be trained to be trusted digital labor, informed by the same strategic insights, best practices, and development philosophies that Washburn & McGoldrick has refined and delivered to the world’s most respected institutions since 1995.

“As we build the most consequential company in nonprofit fundraising, there’s no substitute for experience, and no organization is more trusted in the advancement world than Washburn & McGoldrick. By infusing our Virtual Engagement Officers with the wisdom and methodologies developed over decades of work from their ground-breaking Intensive Fundraiser Trainings, we’re creating autonomous fundraising digital labor, powered by AI, that is truly the most experienced and most well-trained fundraisers in the world.” – Adam Martel, CEO, Givzey | Version2.ai

Through this collaboration, the VEO Knowledge Base will be enriched with:

• Decades of moves management strategy and donor engagement principles

• Thoughtful, mission-aligned stewardship approaches

• Guidance rooted in real-word experience with campaigns, pipelines, major gift programs, annual giving, and more.

• A philosophy of donor-centricity and long-term relationship building

“The Center for Effective Philanthropy finds that 95% of nonprofit leaders are concerned about staff burnout and nearly 50% find it difficult to fill staff vacancies. At Washburn & McGoldrick, we’ve spent decades training frontline fundraisers with best practices to both grow revenue for institutions and to build lasting relationships with donors. Now we’re thrilled to train trusted digital labor so that our clients and other organizations can address this labor shortage and to prepare all frontline fundraising staff, human or AI, to be best in class.” – Bonnie N. Devlin, Managing Principal, Washburn & McGoldrick

With this partnership, Givzey’s Virtual Engagement Officers and entire trusted digital labor workforce are both the only AI fundraisers trained and the first trained on data and the lived expertise of the field’s most respected strategists to create autonomous fundraisers that think and act like the best human fundraisers, at scale, and on day one of the job.

To see what Autonomous Fundraising and Virtual Engagement Officers can look like for your donors, schedule a demo with Version2.ai today.