Learning path
Learning AI as a Fundraiser
This path helps fundraisers use AI for donor emails, appeals, events, grants, and campaign plans. You set up your tools, connect them to your work, and practice with prompts built for fundraising.
Your path
First steps
- Step 1Answer the setup questionsYour job, tasks and AI, so everything fits.
- Step 2Connect your AI: get an expert co-worker for your jobAdd one link to the ChatGPT, Claude or Grok you already use. From then on your own AI knows your work as a fundraiser, and helps like an expert sitting next to you.
- Your daily brief, inside your AI. Just type "Good morning" for the AI news and tools that matter for fundraisers, picked from everything that came out yesterday.
- New ideas every day, each with the prompt to do it, plus a short lesson in the right order for your level.
- Nothing to install, nothing to learn. Connect once and keep working the way you do now. It stays up to date by itself.
- Step 3Give your AI the skills of a top fundraiserYour AI becomes a specialist in your job: it picks the right skill by itself, the moment you need it.
- 6,000+ ready-made skills, with the ones for fundraisers picked for you: reports, analysis, emails, planning and more, done the expert way.
- 4,000+ MCP services that link your AI to the apps you already use, like your calendar, email, CRM or spreadsheets, so it can look things up and get work done there too.
- Build your own apps without coding. Your AI builds tools for your business from 2,000+ step-by-step app plans, so you stop paying for apps you could own.
- Always the newest. New skills and services are added every week and arrive in your AI by themselves.
- Skills picked for fundraisers: subject line psychologistemail campaign copywriterevent planning and promotion assistantgrant writerhospitality guest servicesevent coverage photographer plannerevent coordination assistantemail sequence
Take the prompt courses
Two short framework courses to learn how to ask, then 9 lessons with ready-to-use prompts for fundraisers.
Start with these frameworks: how to talk to AI
Prompt framework course
BAB Prompt Framework: Before, After, Bridge
BAB fits your donor appeal letters because it shows the need before, the impact after, and the gift as the bridge.
Prompt framework course
AIDA, PAS and More: Copywriting Prompt Frameworks
This framework helps write donor emails by using AIDA to grab attention and PAS to show urgent needs before asking for gifts.
Then your prompt course for fundraisers
Prompt course
AI for Fundraisers (Prompt Course)
- 1Donor Outreach Basics3 prompts
- 2Writing Compelling Appeals3 prompts
- 3Event Promotion and Planning3 prompts
- 4Grant Proposal Drafting3 prompts
- 5Donor Research and Profiles3 prompts
- 6Campaign Strategy and Planning2 prompts
- 7Stewarding Donor Relationships2 prompts
- 8Reporting to Stakeholders2 prompts
- 9Troubleshooting and Optimization5 prompts
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126 video courses our AI picked for fundraisers, most useful first. Save the ones you want to watch later with the heart.
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About this learning path
6 topicsAI Skills for Fundraisers, Step by Step
Fundraising runs on relationships and clear writing. AI can help you draft, organize, and personalize the many messages and plans that fill your week, while you keep the human judgment and the donor trust.
This learning path is made for busy fundraisers who are not technical. You start with simple setup questions, connect your AI tool, learn the job-specific skills, then work through a prompt course and short video lessons chosen for fundraising. Certificates come with the video courses, so you can show what you learned.
Why AI Matters Now
Donors expect personal notes, clear updates, and fast answers. At the same time, fundraisers juggle events, grants, campaigns, and reports. AI can help you keep up without losing the warmth that makes giving possible.
Used well, AI gives you a thinking partner for drafts, research, and planning. It does not replace your relationships. It helps you spend less time on blank pages and more time with people who care about your cause.
What the Path Includes
You begin with setup questions and simple steps to connect your AI tool. Then you build skills for the job inside your AI, such as writing donor emails, shaping appeals, planning events, and drafting grant narratives.
Next comes this prompt course, where you practice real fundraising tasks in order. Alongside it, you get video courses picked for fundraising work, and each video course comes with a certificate of completion.
How It Saves Time
Many fundraising tasks start with a draft: a thank-you note, an invitation, a campaign plan, a board update. AI can create that first draft in seconds, suggest options, and help you organize facts you already have.
You still edit and approve everything. The time saved comes from skipping the blank page, gathering ideas faster, and turning rough notes into clear next steps.
How It Protects Your Career
Fundraising skills are changing, and comfort with AI is becoming useful in nonprofit teams. This path helps you learn safe habits, ask better questions, and show that you can use new tools responsibly.
You stay in charge of facts, tone, and donor trust. You also learn how to keep private information safe, follow your organization's rules, and avoid mistakes that can harm relationships.
How to Start
Start with the setup questions and connect one AI tool you already have, like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. Then open the prompt course and try the first lesson on donor outreach with a low-stakes task.
Move at your own pace. One lesson and one prompt a day is enough to build confidence. Soon you will have a set of prompts you can reuse for every campaign season.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to be technical to use this path?
No. The lessons use plain language and step-by-step prompts. You only need a computer and access to an AI tool like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.Will AI write my donor letters for me?
AI can create a first draft, suggest subject lines, and help you organize facts. You still review every word, add your voice, and make the final call.How do I protect donor privacy?
Keep sensitive donor details out of public AI tools unless your organization has approved a secure setup. Use initials or general descriptions when you practice, and follow your group's data rules.What if my organization has rules about AI?
Follow them. This path teaches safe habits and asks you to check with your team before using AI on real donor information. The goal is to support your work, not replace your policies.