Raiser be raisin!
This post is for information only. It is not an invitation to invest, and nothing here is investment advice. We’re…
Sowing the pre seeds of success
The missing infrastructure: Raiser opens pre seed round as momentum builds The charity sector is currently locked in an AI…
Royal Courts of Justice – Banksy (2025)
Banksy’s identity being revealed feels oddly sad.Part of what made his work so powerful was the mystique. But more than…
Sarah stares at her screen, cursor blinking in the empty text box. Question 47 of 52: “Please demonstrate how people with lived experience are meaningfully…
One Hand In My Pocket – Alanis Morissette (1995)
This week I have been making a playlist for my 40th birthday party, which has…
We just signed our first MC 🎤
As we're getting ready to perform on bigger stages, we thought it would be good…
Tapestry – Don MacLean (1970)
Written in the era of the first Earth Day and the birth of the modern…
The Snowman – Irn-Bru (2006)
A bit of Scottish culture for you today… One of the greatest Christmas ads ever made is the 2006 Irn-Bru…
The grant application is dead. Long live the grant!
The pattern is always the same. The Industrial Revolution promised an end to physical drudgery, but workers just found themselves…
Raiser launch party 🎉
After [n = a lot] months of late-night coding, caffeine and more than one existential “what if it all breaks?”…
The Nights – Avicii (2015)
Many of us came into the charity world for work with meaning — something that engages with the world as…
Innovation > Improvement: Why philanthropy needs to stop fixing and start rebuilding
Imagine we started all over again Here are some charities who make a difference in the world. Here are some…
Funding as friendship
The group chat pings at 11:47 PM: "Hi guys, great to hang out this evening! Just a quick reminder that…
International Day of Hope – 12th of July
When I was on the Dr Tech Show last week, we ended up talking about the UN International Day of Hope. It…
Try the free Raiser Bid Bot!
🧪 Try our free grant-writing GPT (Built by a fundraiser, not a tech bro!) Early on in Raiser’s development, I…
James Earl Jones (1931 – 2024)
James Earl Jones is one of the greatest voices of all time. Deep, warm, powerful. He voiced two of the most…
Howard a fundraising legend join our board?
This week, we asked ourselves a question. If Raiser is being built by a couple of young(ish) know-it-alls… how do…
Untitled – Jean-Michel Basquiat (1984)
Jean-Michel Basquiat started by chalking cryptic poetry on walls in New York under the name SAMO. He was wild, bold,…
Built for impact
This week, we got a brilliant reminder that “impact reporting” doesn’t have to be a tick-box chore; it can actually…
