About CharityChannel Press

Stephen Nill founded CharityChannel Press because the nonprofit sector was being underserved by the publishing world, and he was in a position to do something about it. By the early 2000s, CharityChannel had grown into one of the largest online professional communities in the US nonprofit sector, serving over 100,000 practitioners. The conversations happening inside this community made clear that the field’s most pressing questions were being answered not by academics or trade publishers, but by working professionals who had solved these problems themselves. He started the press to get those answers into print, and to demonstrate that independent, practitioner-focused publishing in the nonprofit space was worth doing.

CharityChannel.com itself began in 1992, and the books followed naturally from the community. Over thirty years, CharityChannel Press published dozens of books on the subjects that nonprofit professionals actually need.

By 2026, Stephen realized AI was changing so many aspects of the sector’s work that he couldn’t, in good conscience, continue actively publishing a catalog of books written before the AI revolution. He faced a decision.

One option was to spend the next five years working with dozens of authors to write new editions of their books. But that wasn’t the best use of his time.

Or he could pivot the press to publish only books that challenge assumptions, break down silos, and lead the sector forward.

And that’s just what he did. Hard as it was, he handed back the publishing rights to nearly all the books in the catalog. As of 2026, CharityChannel Press’s catalog has just two books:

Holding Fire: A Skeptic’s Framework for the Fundraiser with AI at Your Side, written by Stephen Nill, JD, takes on two problems that have plagued development offices for decades. The first is the math: more donor relationships than any person or team can personally attend to. The second is the silo: annual giving, major gifts, and planned giving operating as separate departments, each seeing only a slice of the donor. This book presents a practical system that uses AI to give every donor personal attention and every development professional a complete, unified view of every relationship in the portfolio.

Personalized Philanthropy: Crash the Fundraising Matrix by Steven L. Meyers, PhD, challenges the way fundraising departments organize themselves. Most shops divide their work by gift type: annual giving, major gifts, planned giving. Those divisions make administrative sense, but they work against donors, who rarely think about their giving that way. Meyers calls this the Fundraising Matrix, and this book is about breaking out of it in favor of a genuinely donor-focused approach that designs gifts around what the donor most wants to accomplish.

Proposals

Stephen has several books in the works. For the time being, CharityChannel Press is not seeking proposals and will not read one if you send it.