From Survival to Systems: Building Impact with AI and Relentless Resilience
How AI Supports Grant Writing, Research, Stakeholder Mapping, and Scalable Social Impact
In this episode of Jam Packed: Business Made Easy, host Flora Mercury sits down with Megan Pater, founder of Fund-Nation and Birthmom Buddies, to explore how lived experience can be transformed into funded, sustainable systems.
Megan shares how resilience shaped her leadership journey — and how AI now supports every phase of her impact-driven work. From research and stakeholder mapping to grant discovery, proposal strategy, reporting, and long-term program design, AI plays a critical role in helping mission-led organizations scale effectively.
This episode is especially valuable for nonprofit leaders, grant writers, social entrepreneurs, and community builders who want to understand how AI can support real-world funding strategies without losing the human element.
Listeners will gain insight into:
- Using AI for grant research and funding strategy
- Building stakeholder maps and research frameworks with AI
- Designing systems that support long-term impact, not just short-term wins
- Applying AI across the full grant lifecycle, from search to reporting
Whether you’re working in nonprofits, advocacy, financial literacy, or community development, this conversation offers a grounded, real-world look at how AI can help build what was missing — and make it sustainable.
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