We are a team of nonprofit fundraisers who figured out AI

If Possible exists to help nonprofits do impossible things. We've spent 11+ years inside the sector, helping 100+ orgs raise more than $200M. Across all of that work, we keep seeing the same pattern. Ambitious missions colliding with finite capacity. The money is tight. The talent is thin. The work outpaces the team and mission every single year.

Underneath all of it lived a tension that never went away. These are teams doing real, excellent good in the world. The mission is clear. The heart is there. The capacity to deliver on it is the gap that never closes. That's been the shape of nonprofit work since the dawn of time. Until now.

This new era shatters all of it. Artificial Intelligence has changed everything. Not a small tweak here and there, no, we mean the version of AI that nobody is teaching nonprofits yet. The kind that gets trained on your org, learns your voice, knows your donors, and runs systems alongside the humans on your team and makes nonprofit work feel magical. When we applied AI to the clients we were working with, the results stopped looking like productivity gains and started looking like transformation.

The If team has now built this work inside orgs across the country. What's possible now looks like this:

• The case for support that used to take three weeks ships in 27 minutes.
• The annual report comes together in a morning.
• The $250K grant gets drafted in a day.
• Every donor gets a personalized touch this quarter.
• Executive directors who lived in their inbox are back in the strategy seat.

Most of what nonprofits are being taught about AI right now is basic ChatGPT prompts. That doesn't move the mission. Most of the rest is non-impactful tech jargon; learning what AI is in the abstract doesn't help you actually do anything with it. Our work focuses on purposeful, meaningful implementation. Building practical nonprofit intelligence systems that change what your nonprofit can do and the impact you can make on the mission you exist for.

What you thought was impossible is now possible.

Colleen Cook is a co-founder of If Possible. She has spent more than 15 years at the intersection of nonprofit fundraising and technology. Her first development job started with a front-page story saying her organization would close, with every donor in town upset. She and Scott also run Vinyl, the agency where they've helped 100+ nonprofits raise more than $200M. At If Possible, Colleen helps nonprofit leaders turn AI into systems that produce real results, and she hosts every If Possible cohort session and masterclass live with Scott. She also writes for The Art of the Possible on fundraising, AI strategy and getting time back. Find her on LinkedIn.

Scott Williams is a co-founder of If Possible. He has spent more than a decade in nonprofit fundraising work across 100+ organizations. He and Colleen also run Vinyl, the agency where they've helped those nonprofits raise more than $200M, so he knows what it costs to hand-build an idea. At If Possible, Scott helps ambitious nonprofit leaders build AI-powered operations: a Mission Brain that holds the organization's voice and knowledge, and AI Teammates that support the people on staff. He hosts every If Possible cohort session and masterclass live with Colleen. He also writes for The Art of the Possible on implementing AI, prompts and strategy. Find him on LinkedIn.