Launching October 2026
Grow the mission.Multiply the team.Know it's working.
A new kind of partner for nonprofits,
built for the AI journey in front of you.
Giving season is here.
2027 is right behind it.
Do these sound familiar?
Too much to do, too few hands. AI keeps getting added to the list.
It feels like guessing. Every tool, hire, and campaign is a bet.
A mission this important deserves a plan, not a pile of experiments.
What is at stake
What does good look like for your mission over the next year?
Most teams cannot answer that in one sentence yet. Everything we do starts there.
Without a plan
The status quo, one more year of it.
- AI stays a pilot with two people.
- Reports count activity, not the number.
- Donors hear nothing after the receipt.
- Every campaign starts from a blank page.
A plan, a bench, and a number that moves.
- Aligned outcomes, metrics, and a definition of "good".
- A Build in motion each quarter.
- A donor journey that runs with named owners.
- A team that can do more next year than this year.
of nonprofits are using AI
say it has made a major difference to the mission
have a formal AI plan for the next two years
of last year's donors will give again
The nonprofits pulling ahead don't have better tools.
They have a plan.
A plan, and someone to carry it: senior enough to decide, technical enough to build, and close enough to the mission to know what matters. In a company, that seat sits next to the CEO. In most nonprofits it sits empty, and there is no plan for it yet.
A guide for the
AI journey ahead.
We come alongside, by the case or for the long haul, to set the sails, steer the ship, and move the mission. Here is the shape of it.
- 01
Backwards from the outcome.
We start with what good looks like at the end of next year, in your numbers.
- 02
Built, not just advised.
Strategy that ends in something your team is running.
- 03
Your team, trained as we go.
The point is a team that can do more next year without us in the room.
- 04
By the piece or by the seat.
One Build at a fixed price, or a seat at your table every week.
The complete
mission growth stack
Four areas of focus, each with Builds tailored to your mission
across six disciplines.
Operate
Scale team capacity
Return capacity to the team, improve the decisions it makes, and turn organizational knowledge into something people can use.
Reach
Find the right supporters
Put the mission in front of the people most likely to move it forward, then make the next step clearly worth taking.
Give
Turn awareness into action
Generosity can be a gift, time, skill, or a connection. Remove the friction between a person's intent and the act, whatever form it takes.
Keep
Build durable generosity
Turn a first act of generosity into a lasting relationship that keeps people close to the mission and ready for what comes next.
Six disciplines, one bench
Every Build draws on all six, in the same hands, with AI underneath all of it.
- Story and Identity
- Design and Experience
- Generosity
- Operations
- Data
- AI and Systems
What does 2027 look like
if it works?
A Free Audit is the easy first step. If you want to get moving now, the Mission Blueprint is how we help: one day with your leadership team, before you plan the year.
Mission Blueprint
You leave the day with:
- The one number that would prove next year worked
- The one thing holding it back
- The work in order, with owners and measures
A small number of dates are open before launch.
We have sat
in your seat.
Nonprofit Builders is a division of Business Builders, a StoryBrand Certified, HubSpot Platinum agency serving nonprofits and ministries since 1999.
A full bench of strategists, designers, developers, and CRM and nonprofit tech specialists behind every engagement.
Organizations we have built for
Jason VanLue
Founding Partner and Lead
Six years inside Virtuous as VP of Product, a fundraising platform used by more than 2,000 nonprofits.
Jay Owen
Founder, Business Builders
Founded Business Builders in 1999 and serves as Chief of Ministry Staff at The Church of Eleven22.
Start with a Free Audit.
We evaluate your organization internally and externally, and review our observations on a 30-minute call. Completely free, and it could be one of the most important things you do for the next year.
Request a Free Audit