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What If We Get This Right?

Rewriting the Defaults of Generosity: Imagining a Future That Looks Different Than Today

Nathan Chappell
By Nathan Chappell

December 31, 2025Subscriber preview

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TEN YEARS FROM NOW - or even five - if we get AI right in philanthropy, the texture of generosity will feel different in ways that are hard to mistake and even harder to forget. Not a thin layer of automations glued onto yesterday’s playbook, but something closer to a rewiring of the system that makes generosity flow. The difference shows up in small mo…

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