Built for nonprofit executive directors and grant writers

The Shortcut Kit to send this week’s donor thank-you in 30 seconds, without the $300-a-month CRM you only use for mailing labels.

Sixty prompts for grants, funder reports, acknowledgments, appeals and board updates. Written for small nonprofits. No donor data in the AI tool. $27.

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Nothing sensitive ever leaves your desk Works in ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini Built around donor privacy and IRS acknowledgment rules

Brackets stay blank in the AI tool. No donor data, ever.

Try it in ChatGPT right now, then decide.

You didn’t join a nonprofit to fall behind on thank-you letters.

But that’s year-end. Acknowledgments stacking up. A funder report due Friday. The appeal that has to go out. A board update nobody will read past the first line unless it’s short.

The $300-a-month donor CRM was going to “automate stewardship.” You use it for mailing labels. The $2,000 fundraising course never wrote one appeal for you. And donor data can’t go anywhere near an AI tool, so you’ve mostly left it alone.

Shortcut Kit does the drafting. You do the mission.

Every prompt is built for a small nonprofit, organized by the task on your desk, and uses placeholders so no donor, client or beneficiary information ever leaves your office. No invented statistics, ever. Paste the prompt, fill in the blanks, send.

01

Grant research and LOIs

Prospect summaries, letters of inquiry, fit checks, funder outreach notes.

02

Proposal drafting

Need statements, program narratives, logic model outlines, budget narratives. Placeholders for every real number.

03

Reporting and stewardship

Progress reports, funder updates, site visit prep, thank-you notes that lead to the next gift.

04

Donor communications

Acknowledgments with the required IRS language, impact updates, lapsed donor notes.

05

Appeals and campaigns

Year-end appeals, Giving Tuesday, monthly giving pitches, matching gift pushes.

06

Board and volunteers

Board updates, meeting summaries, volunteer recruitment and thank-yous.

07

Events and partnerships

Sponsor asks, event invitations, partner introductions, press notes.

08

Operations

Staff onboarding, policy drafts, impact one-pagers, weekly summary from your numbers.

PLUS

The "Never Paste This" sheet, nonprofit edition

What stays out of AI tools, on one page, plus the three things AI never invents for a funder.

Look inside

28 pages. Every prompt is one paragraph you paste as is. Real pages from the kit:

The kit
The kit
What’s inside
What’s inside
A page of prompts
A page of prompts
The Never Paste This sheet
The Never Paste This sheet

All 60 prompts

Nothing hidden. Tap a section to see every prompt in it.

Grant Research and LOIs8 prompts
  1. Funder prospect research checklist
  2. Funder fit summary
  3. One-page letter of inquiry
  4. Foundation program officer email
  5. Grant calendar builder
  6. Guidelines decoder
  7. Go or no-go memo
  8. Questions for a funder conversation
Grant Proposal Drafting8 prompts
  1. Statement of need
  2. Project description narrative
  3. Organizational background
  4. Logic model outline
  5. Goals and measurable objectives
  6. Budget narrative
  7. Sustainability plan
  8. Evaluation plan
Grant Reporting and Funder Stewardship8 prompts
  1. Interim progress report
  2. Final report narrative
  3. Award thank-you to a funder
  4. Quarterly funder update email
  5. After a declined proposal
  6. Budget modification request
  7. Missed target message
  8. Site visit agenda
Donor Communications and Acknowledgments7 prompts
  1. Acknowledgment letter for a gift over $250
  2. Quid pro quo disclosure
  3. First-time donor welcome
  4. Donor thank-you call script
  5. Lapsed donor reconnect
  6. Response to an angry donor
  7. In-kind gift acknowledgment
Appeals and Campaigns7 prompts
  1. Year-end appeal letter
  2. Giving Tuesday email series
  3. Monthly giving pitch
  4. Appeal social posts
  5. Matching gift announcement
  6. Campaign wrap-up thank-you
  7. Impact story template
Board and Volunteer Communication7 prompts
  1. Board meeting agenda
  2. Board fundraising ask
  3. Executive director report to the board
  4. Volunteer recruitment post
  5. Volunteer thank-you
  6. Volunteer onboarding checklist
  7. Board minutes to action items
Events and Partnerships8 prompts
  1. Event sponsorship ask
  2. Sponsor benefits recap
  3. Event invitation
  4. Post-event thank-you
  5. Supporter referral ask
  6. Review request
  7. Positive review response
  8. Negative review response
Operations7 prompts
  1. Weekly executive summary from raw numbers
  2. SOP: processing and acknowledging a gift
  3. New staff onboarding checklist
  4. Out-of-office message
  5. Gift acceptance policy outline
  6. Impact one-pager
  7. Policy reminder to staff

Three ways to use it this week

1

Pick the task you hate most

The kit is organized by task. Go straight to the one due Friday.

2

Paste the prompt, fill the brackets

Works in ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. Brackets keep donor and client data out of the box.

3

Read it once, send it, move on

You know the mission. The AI wrote the first draft. Thirty minutes instead of three hours.

Who it's for

Executive directors, development staff and grant writers at small and mid-size nonprofits who are done being the whole communications department. Not for software people, not for anyone looking for a 10-hour course.

What it's not

It’s not a $2,000 fundraising course or another CRM. It's not a chatbot. It won't invent a statistic, promise a funder an outcome, or touch donor data. A human reviews everything. That's the point.

Questions

Which AI tool do I need?

Any of them. ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, and the free versions work fine.

Is it safe with donor information?

You never put donor information in. Every prompt uses blanks like [FIRST NAME], and you add the real details in your own email. The kit includes a one-page Never Paste This sheet covering donor privacy, and the gift acknowledgment prompts follow IRS written acknowledgment basics.

Is it for small nonprofits or big development teams?

It's written for executive directors and small development teams who do the writing themselves.

I'm not good with AI. Will I be able to use it?

If you can copy and paste, yes. Pick the task, paste the prompt, fill in the blanks.

Can my staff use it?

Each kit is for one person. Add the Team license at checkout to cover up to 5 people, including your development and program staff.

How do I get it?

Your download page opens the moment you pay, and the same link arrives by email within the hour. It’s a PDF that works on any device.

Can I get a refund?

All sales are final, including accidental or duplicate purchases. That’s why you can see sample pages and try a prompt free before you buy.

THE OFFER

Shortcut Kit for Nonprofits and Grant Writers

  • 60 prompts across 8 sections
  • IRS-compliant acknowledgment language built in
  • The Never Paste This sheet, nonprofit edition
  • Updated when the tools change
$27one time, instant download
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Imagine this week’s donor thank-you written in thirty seconds, warm, specific, IRS language included. The funder report drafted from your own numbers. The appeal out the door before the match deadline.

That’s the grant out and the donor thanked the same day.

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