The person behind the kit.

Emily Bocking is the founder and principal of Brazen Fundraising & Advisory Services, a consulting firm in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan that works with nonprofits across Canada. Before founding Brazen in 2024, she spent twenty years inside the work — stewardship, community outreach, major gifts, and advancement roles inside Canadian nonprofits and universities, then seven years in fundraising consulting.

Clients tend to say the same thing about why they hired her: she says the thing nobody else in the room will say. The board that's terrified of fundraising. The ED carrying it alone. The "fundraising problem" that's actually an organizational one. The presenting problem is almost never the real problem, and Emily's work starts where the comfortable conversation ends.

That's also where the AI Policy Kit came from. Brazen's clients kept asking the same question — "our staff are using these tools, what do we do?" — and everything on the market was American, written in legalese, or attached to something someone wanted to sell them. So Brazen built the answer: a policy a Canadian board can sign, and a practice a stretched team can keep.

Emily is writing Dignified Intelligence, a book about AI in the nonprofit sector that takes both the technology and the humans seriously.