A short guide for staff using the Nonprofit AI Starter Pack. It is about judgment, privacy, and the writing you already do.
What this pack is for
These prompts help with drafts: newsletters, social posts, grant reports, board updates, donor notes, volunteer messages, event copy, and stories.
The tool does not know your donors, your numbers, or your community. You bring the facts. It offers a first shape for them. You decide what goes out.
A simple way to use a prompt
- Pick the job in front of you, not the prompt that sounds cleverest.
- Read "when to use it." If it is not this moment, choose another.
- Fill the blanks with real notes. Rough is better than polished and vague.
- Copy the prompt, or open it in an assistant you already use.
- Edit. Cut any sentence you cannot stand behind. Then send it yourself.
Save the ones that fit the way your week actually goes. Favorites stay in this browser.
What to leave out
Do not paste:
- Donor names tied to gift amounts, addresses, emails, phone numbers, or account details
- Health, disability, immigration, housing, or financial details that identify a person
- Children's full names, schools, or other details that identify them
- Social Security numbers, bank accounts, card numbers, or passwords
- Staff performance notes, HR issues, or anything a person has not agreed to share
- Unpublished budgets or donor lists a funder or your board treats as confidential
Use a role ("a Tuesday volunteer") until you have permission for a name. Add the name yourself, later, outside the prompt, if the person said yes.
If a story is about a real person, they should recognize themselves and be willing to see it in public. A dignity check in this library can help you slow down. It does not replace showing them the piece.
How to read a draft
Read it once as the person who will receive it, and once as the person the story is about.
- Check every number, date, name, and quote. If you did not type it, it should not be there. These prompts tell the model not to invent facts. Models still sometimes do. Brackets like [number of families] mean you still need the fact.
- Take out guilt, fake urgency, and hype. A real date can stay. A manufactured "last chance" should not.
- Listen for a voice that is not yours. Your voice profile helps. You still have the last word.
- If colleagues' notes disagreed, do not let the draft pick the cheerful version and hide the rest.
What AI is handy for
Handy: turning rough notes into a clear first draft, fitting one story into a newsletter and a short post, spotting jargon, and giving you a structure when the page is blank.
Not handy: choosing your strategy, knowing what your board will accept, replacing a conversation with a donor, or producing facts you do not have.
If you do not know the number, the draft should not know it either.
Privacy on this site
Favorites and your voice profile stay in this browser. They are not an account. This site does not send them to a model.
Copy prompt puts the filled prompt on your clipboard. Some Open in buttons put that prompt in the link, so it goes to that assistant when the tab opens. The others copy the prompt and open the assistant's site, and you paste it there.
Before you open an assistant, take out anything you would not want that assistant to store. When you are unsure, take the names out first.
A few habits that keep this kind
- Write to one person. A volunteer, a donor, a board member. Not "stakeholders."
- Make one ask. If you need something, say what it is.
- Keep the hard parts. Do not let a draft sand down a problem your community is actually living.
- Credit people. The tool did not do the work. Your staff and neighbors did.
If you want this for the whole team
One shared login and a folder of prompts will only go so far. Starter Pack Plus adds a team workbook, a policy template, and a new set of prompts each month. The library and Try it buttons stay free. The footer of this site links to Truth Scout Consulting if you want help setting this up for the people you work with, including which tools are allowed to see your notes.