The GUIDE
For
the
giver
Understand what matters most to you, discover where you can make the greatest impact, and give with greater confidence, clarity and alignment.
About the GuideData to guide • Insight to act
Generosity moves farther when both sides of the gift are aligned.
Kai Pollai equips women and those around her to give with clarity, while helping organizations become ready to receive, understand, and sustain that generosity.
Clarity for Givers
Insight for Organizations
Data to guide, align, and act.
One relationship. Two pathways.
For the Giver
Clarity + Impact
The Guide
Discover → Connect → Align
For the Organization
Readiness + Relationship
The Index
Assess → Understand → Improve
Kai Pollai works both sides. We help her know what she is for.
We help organizations engage her well.
The wealth is moving to her.
$100 Trillion
of the $124 trillion transferring through 2048 is going to women.
Source: Cerulli Associates, 2024 / Bank of America Global Research
She is making the decisions.
85%
of affluent household giving decisions are already made or influenced by a woman.
Source: Bank of America / Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, 2023
Women have always been giving. What has been missing is the system for understanding how, why and where their participation goes.
Two customers.
One relationship.
A stronger future of giving.
The INDEX
For
the
organization
Understand the women you serve, where engagement is being lost, and what the data is telling you about bridging the gap to advance impact.
About the Index
For Givers
The GUIDE
Every cause is a good cause. That is the problem.
Without a filter, every request is a judgment call made from scratch. The Guide gives you the filter.
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01
Profile
How you are designed to give What moves you, what you bring, where you are drawn, and how you want to be engaged. The profile becomes your filter. -
02
Connect
Where you are strong now Where you are strong now, where you are ready to grow, and the specific people who take you further. -
03
Align
Whether this one fits Bring a real opportunity. Align reads it against your profile and tells you what to ask before you commit.
“We can’t change what we don’t see. Kai Pollai makes the invisible visible—so women’s participation can shape what comes next.”
For Organizations
The INDEX
She is already giving. The question is whether you are built to receive her.
The Index shows you where the model is costing you. Not by asking your leadership how they think it is going, but by comparing three views of the same organization: what leadership believes, what women on your staff experience, and what your women donors encounter. Eight domains. The distance between the three views is where the work is.
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01
Assess
Compare what leadership believes, what women staff experience, and what women donors encounter. -
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Understand
See the distance between those views across eight essential domains. -
03
Improve
Turn the findings into a prioritized roadmap for meaningful change to improve retention.
Meet the Founders
From Experience.
For Impact.
Mary Shaw
Founder
Mary has spent more than a decade in rooms where women discover generosity. She led at Women Doing Well, creating The Pathway, an experience that has reached thousands of women.
Kai Pollai carries her judgment on both sides of the gift. Everything it does, she has done in a room first.
Albert Chen
Co-founder, Technology
Albert Chen is an AI strategist and prompt engineer who helps philanthropy and nonprofit leaders put AI to work inside their organizations. He runs Anago, an AI consultancy for foundations, nonprofits, and ministries.
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The Guide and the Index are being built. The conversation is open now. Join us on this journey toward more impactful giving.
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