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How MGOs use AI to assemble donor briefings without crossing privacy or ethics lines.
AI can stitch public records into donor briefings; the MGO ensures every fact is publicly sourced and respectfully framed.
Major gift officers prepare donor briefings before cultivation visits and solicitation calls. A good briefing consolidates publicly available information about the prospective donor — their professional background, philanthropic history, board affiliations, wealth indicators from public sources like SEC filings or real estate records — and provides talking points that help the MGO connect the donor's known interests to the organization's current fundraising priorities. AI can meaningfully accelerate the assembly of this information by synthesizing public bios, LinkedIn profiles, news mentions, and 990 giving records into a structured briefing format. The AFP Code of Ethical Standards is explicit that donors and prospects have a right to privacy and a right to know how information about them is being used. Wealth screen data — typically purchased from vendors who aggregate public records with proprietary algorithms — is presented to prospects as an estimate, not as fact, and is never shared with the donor directly. The MGO must also ensure that every fact in the briefing is publicly sourced; presenting inferred or estimated information as established fact is both an ethics violation and a relationship risk if the donor corrects the record during the visit.
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