ACE-NS-01BeginnerTier 3 · Specialist
AI for Grant Writing & Fundraising
Use AI to strengthen grant ideas, draft applications, and support fundraising work without losing your organisation voice.
What you’ll explore
- Identify why grant writing and fundraising communications are strong AI use cases, and apply the funder/donor brief → AI draft → evidence check → voice check workflow, with the authenticity check as the non-negotiable final step
- Brief AI with a funder's actual guidelines and real programme evidence to draft a grant application's need statement, objectives, activities and outcomes
- Draft a budget narrative and integrate real statistics and case studies as evidence, so an AI-assisted grant application section holds up to funder and assessor scrutiny
- Draft donor appeal letters, stewardship acknowledgements and fundraising event copy with AI that reads as the organisation's genuine voice, not a generic template
- Produce funding reports and acquittals with AI, verify every figure against real programme and financial data, and build a reusable personal library of grant, appeal and reporting templates for an ongoing fundraising AI workflow
Course outline
01Getting Started: AI for Grant Writing & Fundraising60 min
02Analysing Funder Guidelines & Drafting the Need Statement60 min
03Objectives, Activities, Outcomes & Budget Narrative60 min
04Donor Appeals & Stewardship Communications60 min
05Fundraising Event Copy, Funding Reports & Your Grant-Writing AI Workflow60 min
Who it’s for
NFP managers and grant writers Fundraising coordinators and development officers Community service and social enterprise staff