In this episode of Nonprofit Lowdown, I sat down with Janine Quijije to talk about AI but probably not in the way you’re used to hearing about it.

Instead of asking, “How can AI help us do more?” Janine asks a much more important question: How can AI help us preserve our energy and prevent burnout?

We talk about the reality of being overextended in the nonprofit sector, the pressure to constantly produce, and how AI can actually help us create more sustainable ways of working. One of my favorite takeaways was Janine’s simple exercise of uploading your calendar into ChatGPT and asking it to audit how you’re spending your energy. The results? A little confronting… and incredibly helpful.

This episode is really a reminder that your worth is not tied to how exhausted you are.

My Ai Analysis Report: Your export contained 239 campaigns, but most showed 100% open rates against tiny send

counts — those are automated/triggered sends (welcome flows, single-recipient sends), not list

broadcasts. I filtered to campaigns sent to at least 500 people, which isolated 43 real

broadcasts to your full list (median list size ~6,400).

For each subject line, I tagged structural features (length, emoji, punctuation, opening word,

presence of 'you/your', sender voice, editorial framing, etc.) and compared the top 11 and

bottom 11 performers to identify what actually correlates with open rate on your list specifically

Important Links:

Connect with Janine: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janinequijije/ 

My Big Ask Gifts Program: ⁠https://go.rheawong.com/big-ask-gifts-program⁠ 

My Book, Get That Money Honey: ⁠https://go.rheawong.com/get-that-money-honey⁠ 

My Newsletter: ⁠https://www.rheawong.com/⁠ 

My Quiz: https://bit.ly/4vDEBjl