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Priya's Wednesday, two ways

9 lessons · 24 prompts

A day in the life of a Grant Writer: what changes with these prompts.

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Priya, a grant writer at a regional food bank

Priya starts her Wednesday with a 40-page RFP from a family foundation. She opens ChatGPT and uses the Decode Funder Guidelines prompt. She pastes the funder's language and asks for a plain summary, a compliance checklist, and the review criteria. In ten minutes she has a one-page brief that tells her exactly what the foundation cares about.

Next, she uses the Research Funding Prospects prompt in Claude. She lists three local foundations she has heard about and asks for a side-by-side comparison of their priorities, average grant size, and deadlines. Claude turns her scattered notes into short briefs. She sees that one foundation is a better fit for their new weekend meal program.

After lunch, Priya drafts the statement of need with the Draft Core Proposal Sections prompt in Gemini. She gives it the food bank's latest service numbers and a few client stories. The first draft is rough but useful. She spends her time rewriting the opening to sound like her, not a robot. Then she uses the Build Budgets and Narratives prompt to create a budget table for the weekend program. She asks Gemini to check the math and flag any lines that need a clearer justification.

By 4 p.m., Priya has a full draft, a clean budget, and a short list of questions for the program director. She saves the prompts in a folder for next time. With the hour she won back, she calls a partner organization to talk about a letter of support. That relationship might lead to a stronger proposal and a new collaboration.

Before

  • Staring at long RFPs late into the night
  • Losing track of funder rules and deadlines
  • Rewriting the same sections from scratch
  • Feeling behind before the week begins

After this course

  • Turning dense guidelines into clear checklists
  • Comparing funders in minutes, not hours
  • Drafting sections with a strong starting point
  • Ending the day with time for relationships

What you'll learn

  • Decode guidelines: Turn a long funder RFP into a plain summary, a checklist, and review criteria you can write toward.
  • Research prospects: Build a smarter funder search, compare options, and turn notes into short prospect briefs.
  • Draft sections: Get strong first drafts of your statement of need, program description, and organizational capacity.
  • Write inquiry letters: Draft a persuasive letter of inquiry and a tight executive summary with need, approach, outcomes, and ask.
  • Build budgets: Create a budget table, write line justifications, and catch math or consistency errors before you submit.
  • Tailor to funders: Map your proposal to the funder's review criteria and rewrite it in their vocabulary and framing.
  • Edit and tighten: Cut to word limits, rewrite in plain language, and catch inconsistencies across sections.
  • Plan and submit: Plan backwards from the deadline, gather supporting documents, run a final compliance check, and learn from feedback.

How this course works

  1. 9 lessonsOne task of your job each, from decode funder guidelines to submit and handle feedback.
  2. Ready-to-paste promptsCopy, fill in the parts in {{brackets}}, paste into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
  3. Tick and completeTick the prompts you tried and mark each lesson complete.
  4. Get certifiedFinish and keep the prompts as your own library.