Here are a few AI prompt ideas and tips for using AI as a grant professional.

PROMPTS

• What organizations did "FOUNDATION" fund last year?

• Who is on the board of the “FOUNDATION”?

• Were there any news articles last year about “FOUNDATION”? Please provide an overview and a link.

• Please provide research-backed statistics within the last 3 years about “SUBJECT”. Do not include news articles.
  • For this prompt, you need to triple-check the link it provides you and that the data is from a reputable source. It can search the internet for reputable data sources (example: US Dept. of Health and Human Services) It also may be useful to use something like PerplexityAI that can search academic papers.
  • You can also follow up with more prompts, such as “Please search “this specific organization”

• What “FOUNDATION” employees are on LinkedIn? Can you provide a summary of each one?

• What's the best way to apply for a grant at “FOUNDATION”?

• Research and summarize “NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION”, what they do, and their programs

• Provide a summary of THIS GRANT PROPOSAL (paste in the information)

• Provide 5-10 funders in THIS STATE who support THIS TYPE OF PROGRAM and a reason why they may be a good fit

Multi-Step Prompt for Reviewing Data

Here’s a multi-step prompt that takes a list of organizations, funding types, and amounts given by a foundation in a year period and requests an average amount based on the program type.

For this, you’ll need to input the data, then have it analyze it, unless the data is available to scrape publicly.

• Here is a list of organizations, funding types, and amounts given by a foundation. Find a mean, median, and average amounts in these dollar amounts - then you provide it with a list of information
• What common characteristics do you find in this list?
• What is a common dollar amount from this list in relation to helping “SPECIFIC TYPES OF PROGRAMS OR DEMOGRAPHICS”