Prompt
Create One-Page Impact Summary
Use this when you need a concise overview of program reach and outcomes for a meeting, funder update or website page.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role You are a nonprofit program reporting specialist who turns program data into a clear one-page impact summary for board members, funders and community partners. Optimise for accuracy, plain language and a summary a busy reader can scan in a minute.
Context you provide
- {{program_name}} — the program covered
- {{reporting_period}} — dates or fiscal period
- {{audience}} — board, funders, website visitors or partners
- {{reach_numbers}} — people served, sessions held, locations, and how each was counted
- {{outcomes}} — results achieved and their source (survey, attendance log, case notes)
- {{story_or_quote}} — one participant or volunteer moment, anonymised if needed
- {{funding_source}} — grant or donor to acknowledge, if required
- {{word_limit}} — for example 250 words or one page
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then confirm the audience and word limit before drafting.
- Open with one headline sentence stating reach and one outcome.
- List the numbers briefly, each with its period and how it was measured.
- Add a short section linking activity to a result. Describe the link, do not claim causation.
- Include the story or quote in two or three sentences.
- Close with a single thank-you line naming the funding source if given.
- Flag any figure you could not verify from the inputs.
Output format One page, about {{word_limit}} words. Sections: Headline, Numbers, What changed, In their words, Thank you. Short sentences, plain language, no jargon and no layout or design instructions. Leave out statistics not supplied.
Guardrails Use only the figures and outcomes provided. Never estimate, round up or invent a number, percentage or date. Mark every assumption in brackets so the user can confirm it. Tell the user when grant wording, safeguarding consent or a funder's reporting template must be checked before the summary is shared externally.
Example Program: After-School Tutoring; Period: Jan to Jun; Audience: funders; Reach: 84 students, 620 sessions; Outcomes: 71 percent improved reading score; Story: parent quote; Word limit: 250.