Gideon Emmanuel

AI for Fundraising and Grant Writing

AI can help you find promising grants, understand donor history, and turn a blank page into a useful draft. Getting started can still feel mystifying.

Work through practical fundraising tasks, learn what makes a useful request, and build a process you can use again.

What you’ll learn

Use ChatGPT or Claude to research funding opportunities, understand donor data, and draft fundraising materials, with a repeatable process for giving AI useful context and evaluating its work.

Who it’s for

For nonprofit grant writers, fundraising staff, development leaders, and executive or program directors who contribute to proposals. No previous AI experience is needed.

See the five weeks

Five weeks, five goals

  1. Week 1

    Get comfortable with AI

    Explore ChatGPT or Claude, learn what it can produce, and turn source documents into a useful fundraising brief.

  2. Week 2

    Give AI the context it needs

    Bring together organizational background, meeting notes, and voice guidance. See how better context changes the quality of a donor message.

  3. Week 3

    Find the next best donor action

    Use giving history and relationship notes to identify outreach priorities and draft a thoughtful follow-up.

  4. Week 4

    Research and draft a grant proposal

    Compare funding opportunities for eligibility and fit, then draft a proposal section grounded in supporting evidence.

  5. Week 5

    Make the work repeatable

    Combine context, reusable instructions, and connected tools into a fundraising workflow. Test it with changing inputs and explore recurring research and follow-up tasks.

Let’s find a time for your team to learn.

Let’s talk