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Michelangelo Gigli · Political fundraising, election campaigns, civic mobilisationFundraising, augmented. For the right causes.

I help parties, candidates, referendum committees, movements and non-profits find the money: strategy, data and AI agents, from first contact to major donor. From Rome and Brussels, across Europe.

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Michelangelo Gigli

A fundraiser who learned to build the tools.

I am a political fundraising and civic mobilisation consultant. I work every day on fundraising at Associazione Luca Coscioni and with Eumans, between Rome and Brussels, and for years I have worked on election campaigns, referendums, parties and non-profits.

When the tools I needed did not exist, or cost too much, I started building them with artificial intelligence: open databases, CRMs, multilingual petitions, agents that write and analyse. I use them myself first, then bring them to the people who need them.

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What I do for people who raise money.

Political fundraising, election campaigns and civic mobilisation are my core trade. Around them, everything a fundraising team needs, held together by data and AI.

  • 01

    Political fundraising

    Parties and movements: small donors, recurring gifts, tax designations, major donors, transparency on donations.

  • 02

    Election campaigns

    Candidates, lists and committees: fundraising plan, inner circle, major donors, events, the treasurer’s report.

  • 03

    Civic mobilisation

    Multilingual petitions, signature drives for referendums and citizens’ bills, European Citizens’ Initiatives, coalitions.

  • 04

    Strategy

    An audit of the fundraising you have, an annual plan with budget and KPIs, and where AI really pays off.

  • 05

    Funnels and email

    Landing pages, emails and ads that take people from signature to first gift, and then to monthly giving.

  • 06

    Donor care

    Thank-yous within 48 hours, impact reports, journeys for regular donors, major donors and legacies.

  • 07

    Prospect research

    Who already gives to causes like yours, how much and to whom: profiles of people, companies and foundations, with sources.

  • 08

    Foundations and grants

    Scouting open calls, project design, budget and reporting, and the relationship with the funder over the years.

  • 09

    Corporate

    Partnerships, sponsorships, cause-related marketing and payroll giving that work for both sides.

  • 10

    Data and CRM

    Donors, signatures and transactions cleaned and connected; CRMs people actually use and dashboards you read at a glance.

  • 11

    AI agents and automation

    Email appeals, thank-yous, segmentation and reports: AI takes the repetitive work, people stay with the team.

  • 12

    Training

    Courses, webinars and hands-on sessions on AI and fundraising, built on your real cases. No dependency on the consultant.

My projects in numbers.

  • 1.1Mtax designation records made readable for everyone
  • €212Min party funding tracked, one donation at a time
  • 25.3MEuropean signatures mapped country by country
  • 12+platforms online, in production

What the public data says.

Three official archives nobody could really use. Now they are open to everyone, and they tell fundraisers useful things.

risultati5x1000.it ↗

€602M

of Italy’s 5×1000 tax designation paid out in 2025 to 95,980 organisations: +78% in twenty years.

20062025
eci.eumans.eu ↗

55%

of European signatures come from three countries: Germany, Italy and France.

Map of signatures to European Citizens’ Initiatives by country

Projects in production.

Some are open source, some are products. All of them started from a real problem met in the field.

Open data · iOS app risultati5x1000.it Twenty years of Italy’s 5×1000: a million records, 90,000+ organisations, rankings, maps, APIs and an AI assistant. Transparency finanziamentipartiti.it Every donation to Italian parties since 2019, extracted automatically from the Chamber of Deputies’ official PDFs. Eumans · EU data ECI Explorer 135 European Citizens’ Initiatives, signatures country by country, updated every six hours. Eumans · petition My Last Right A petition in 27 languages, 23 organisations across 16 countries. Open source Forager A CRM for major donors: one name, three minutes, a profile with sources. Product Mira An AI CRM for non-profits, parties and civic movements. Associazione Luca Coscioni PMA per tutte The campaign to change Italy’s fertility law.

Who I have worked with.

Parties and movements, election and referendum campaigns, civil rights, the third sector, advocacy, grassroots mobilisation.

  • Associazione Luca Coscioni Civil rights association
  • Eumans Pan-European movement
  • +Europa Political party
  • Meglio Legale Association
  • Open Arms NGO, search and rescue at sea
  • Referendum Cittadinanza Referendum campaign
  • Io Coltivo Citizens’ initiative law
  • Con Cappato Election campaign, Senate 2023
  • Antonella Soldo Election campaign

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How I work: prototypes, not slides.

  1. 01

    Listen

    One call, your data, your workflows. I work out where the time goes and where the money goes.

  2. 02

    Prototype

    Something that works within days, not a document. You try it with real data.

  3. 03

    Production

    I put it live, connect it to the tools you already have and measure every automation.

  4. 04

    Handover

    I train the team, document everything, and the system stays yours. No subscriptions holding you hostage.

I chose fundraising.

I studied International and Diplomatic Sciences, then found fundraising and it became the job: finding the money for non-profits, parties and movements fighting real battles.

A large part of my work is political fundraising, the hardest discipline in fundraising: brutal deadlines, disclosure rules, no second chance. It is also the one I like most.

  • Transparency Every euro raised has to be traceable.
  • Simplicity No smoke, no consultant jargon.
  • Impact If nothing changes, it did not work.

The questions people always ask.

Straight answers, no detours.

How much does fundraising consulting cost?

It depends on what you need. An audit and a fundraising plan have a fixed price agreed in advance; longer projects are priced by the day or by the project. The first call is free and exists precisely to work out the right size. With small organisations I almost always find a workable arrangement.

Does artificial intelligence replace the fundraiser?

No. AI does the repetitive work: drafting, cleaning data, looking up public information, producing reports. The relationship with donors stays human. In practice the team gets hours back to spend on people instead of spreadsheets.

Do you only work with large organisations?

No. I work with small associations, committees, electoral campaigns and movements as well as with established organisations. Many of the tools I use are open source or free, precisely for people on a small budget.

Which countries do you work in?

Italy is home, but the work is European: coalitions across 16 countries, a petition running in 27 languages, EU institutional data. Rules on political finance differ country by country, so on non-Italian campaigns I work alongside your local legal and accounting advisers, and I bring the strategy, the machinery and the tools.

How does political fundraising differ from non-profit fundraising?

Timing and motivation. A campaign lasts weeks and has a deadline that will not move; an association works on an annual cycle. And people who give to a political cause do not want to help: they want to win. The ask has to talk about the goal, the opponent and the concrete consequences. Then there are disclosure duties, which have no equivalent in the non-profit world. More on the political fundraising page.

What happens to donor data?

It stays yours. I build systems that run on your servers or in your accounts, with a full export available at any moment. Where possible I use tools that run locally, without shipping your files to outside services.

How long before results show?

A working prototype takes days, not months. Process automation is measured from the very next campaign. A full fundraising plan plays out over an annual cycle, but the first signals arrive much earlier.

In which languages do you work?

English and Italian, for calls, documents and copy. The platforms I build are multilingual by default: the largest one currently runs in 27 languages.

From the blog and Inneschi.

Written in Italian. All articles →

01Chi finanzia i partiti italiani? Ora puoi scoprirlo tu stesso 02Risultati 5x1000: un milione di record che nessuno ti faceva cercare 03Una firma è una donazione: quando il fundraising diventa politico 04ONLUS vs ODV: differenze e quale scegliere

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