21 prompts
Design an advocacy and social change campaign that shifts public opinion, influences policy, or mobilizes community action.
Write appeal letters that move donors to give — the art and science of nonprofit direct mail and email appeals.
Create an annual report that moves donors, inspires volunteers, and demonstrates your impact with clarity and conviction.
Write compelling grant proposals that clearly articulate your impact and persuade funders to invest in your work.
Write a letter of inquiry that gets you to the full proposal stage — the critical first filter with most major funders.
Build a theory of change and logic model that clarifies your strategy and makes your impact credible to funders and evaluators.
Build the relationships and process that turn prospects into major gift donors.
Write grant reports that build long-term funder relationships and position your organization for renewed and increased funding.
Design and launch a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign that activates your community to raise money on your behalf.
Lead your organization through a strategic planning process that produces a real plan your team will actually implement.
Build a systematic approach to identifying the right funders and qualifying grant opportunities before you invest time writing.
Build a volunteer program that attracts, engages, and retains volunteers who show up consistently and make real impact.
Build a high-functioning nonprofit board that actively supports the organization's mission, fundraising, and strategic direction.
Build a technology and data infrastructure that improves program delivery, donor management, and organizational effectiveness.
Build the financial systems and reserves strategy that makes your nonprofit resilient against funding disruptions and long-term.
Diagnose board governance problems in a growing nonprofit and design the governance restructuring — from committee architecture and meeting redesign to board recruitment, term limits, and the board-staff relationship clarity that prevents mission drift and enables growth.
Design a narrative change campaign that shifts public understanding of a systemic issue — from framing strategy and messenger selection to earned media, cultural partnerships, and the long-horizon theory of change that moves from story to policy.
Build a rigorous theory of change evaluation framework with Social Return on Investment (SROI) methodology — producing impact evidence that is credible to institutional funders, foundations, and government partners.
Design a comprehensive volunteer management system — addressing the complete volunteer lifecycle with onboarding, engagement, skill-matching, and the leadership development pathway that turns volunteers into organizational champions.
Design a capital campaign from the feasibility study phase through the public phase — including the gift range chart, case statement development, volunteer leadership structure, and the silent phase strategy that determines whether a campaign will succeed.
Write a competitive federal grant narrative using a rigorous logic model — from needs assessment with data citations to theory of change, evaluation design, and the sustainability statement that reviewers actually read.