Non-Profit · Colleen Cook & Scott Williams

If Possible

by Colleen Cook & Scott Williams

Your nonprofit has never had enough people for the mission. AI is the first thing that can change that. If Possible is a podcast for ambitious nonprofit leaders who sense we're in a new era. Colleen Cook and Scott Williams, Co-Founders of If Possible, have spent 10+ years inside nonprofit fundraising and helped 100+ nonprofits raise $200M+. Now they use AI every day, and they report back on what works, what's still half built, and what it means for a stretched team. Season 1 is the two of them talking the way they do at the office. Why AI forgets your nonprofit, and how to give it a brain. Why they hit record on every meeting. How one person built a whole year-end campaign in a single day. Why fundraising is fear, and what turns it into confidence. And the question behind the name: if anything were possible, what would your nonprofit be doing? Every episode has one long, real conversation at its heart, plus songs, sponsors that do not exist, and If Possible Theater, a short radio play that makes an AI idea easy to picture. Plain language, no jargon, and the screenshots-and-all version of how the work gets done. If you're an executive director, a development director, or the person on staff who already uses AI and has hit the ceiling of what you can do alone, this show is for you. All 10 episodes of Season 1 are out now. Start with Episode 1, or start with whatever you're facing this week. The If Possible Newsletter, free every Wednesday: https://ifpossible.ai/newsletter Instagram: @ifpossible.ai, @if.colleen, @if.scott https://ifpossible.ai

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If Anything Were Possible

A few times this season, we've left you with one question. In the Season 1 finale, Colleen tells where it came from: a nonprofit whose dreams always came with the limits

Nov 2
22 min

Fundraising Is Fear

Colleen's first development job started with a front-page story saying her organization would close, and every donor in town mad at them. Years later she has a word for w

Nov 2
22 min

The Bathroom Sink

Most of what we build with AI is half done for a while, like the 13-inch discount sink we lived with in our unfinished office kitchen: functional, and not where you want

Nov 2
15 min

Whatever's in Your Head

Colleen and Scott spent years running an agency that built websites, so they know what it costs to hand-code an idea. Then AI started handing them clickable web pages in

Nov 2
25 min

Ninety-One Assets

Last episode, Colleen called her shot: one day to build a nonprofit's whole year-end campaign with AI. Here's how it went. Colleen Cook turned one recorded strategy conv

Nov 2
25 min

Call Your Shot

Most nonprofits feel like the best kept secret in town because they only speak up when they have an ask. One appeal letter is never enough. Year-end takes hundreds of tou

Nov 2
25 min

Meat Proxy

A meat proxy is the person who pastes AI output into Slack or an email without adding anything to it. If you've ever received a five-page summary of a two-line idea, you'

Nov 2
24 min

Hit Record

Most of what matters at a nonprofit is said out loud, and we keep maybe a tenth of it. Colleen and Scott don't say a word in a meeting until somebody hits record. Here's

Nov 2
28 min

A Goldfish With a Brain

Your AI has the memory of a goldfish, and when it forgets, it won't tell you. You'll just see it in the work. Colleen Cook and Scott Williams get into why AI output disa

Nov 2
22 min

Too Busy for AI

Every fall we hear it from nonprofit leaders: we're slammed, let's talk about AI in January. In our first episode, Colleen and Scott make the case for starting with the w

Nov 2
26 min