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Balancing Innovation & Integrity: AI in Grant Writing

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MAY 1, 2025

So I decided to have a bit of fun with ChatGPT (the free version) as I was preparing for an upcoming CharityHowTo webinar on AI ( Balancing Innovation & Integrity: AI in Nonprofit Grant Writing ) to see what AI had to say about itself and its impact on our work as grant professionals. ” ChatGPT said: Sure! Is it my tone?

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Candid

OCTOBER 17, 2024

As generative AI tools like ChatGPT become increasingly widely available, the need to ensure they’re used safely and ethically also becomes ever more urgent. These articles explore the ethical considerations AI technology raises for the sector and ways to address them. Is your nonprofit thinking about using ChatGPT?

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How to use AI in Grant Writing

Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 8, 2025

AI can automate labor-intensive tasks and improve the quality of grant proposals, but ethical considerations are critical to maintaining trust and credibility in highly regulated sectors. Proposal Drafting: AI can create drafts tailored to specific funding agencies, improving alignment with solicitation requirements.

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The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 7, 2025

Collaborating on grant-funded projects, and particularly proposal development, is essential for nonprofits. However, fostering a productive proposal-building environment often presents scheduling and communication hurdles. Subject matter experts are often working beyond their capacity to manage their proposal duties.

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Is AI Coming for Your Grant Writing Job?

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 23, 2025

While the criticism and concerns over some aspects of AI—including environmental impacts and severe ethical and human rights violations—are entirely valid, today we’re zooming in on AI and grant writing. The AI Grants Hub™ integrates your core narratives, past proposals, and data. You, the human, are doing all the thinking.

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Reimagining equity with AI: What philanthropy can do

Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

We bear the responsibility to ensure AI adoption is equitable, ethical, and inclusive. In the nonprofit space, large language models like ChatGPT can support overworked staff that operate with limited resources. According to a Candid survey , 23% of grantmakers say they dont accept AI-generated grant proposals.

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What 2025 Grant Trends Are Teaching Nonprofits

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 7, 2025

With public funding in flux, private foundations shifting priorities, and technology changing how proposals are crafted and reviewed, nonprofits need way more than strong writing to stay competitive. AI tools like ChatGPT, Grammarly, and Notion are now standard in nonprofit offices. Write for both humans and machines.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 4, 2024

According to Margit Brazda Poirier, founder and CEO of Grants4Good , you might not be using AI; most nonprofits aren’t — citing lack of time and concerns about safety, privacy and ethics. Try this prompt in ChatGPT: “Write a one-page letter of inquiry to the [foundation] to request $XXXX for [your organization].

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Doing good with AI tools: Navigating ethical considerations for the social sector

Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

As AI is increasingly used in high-impact ways such as writing and assessing grant proposals, how can we make sure that it is used ethically, minimizing the risk of harm? Ethical use to reduce bias and harm Bias and harm are defined by an individual use case.

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Practical Ways to Use AI in 2024

Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 3, 2024

In my work with nonprofit organizations, I’ve found that while few are using AI, many are not -- citing lack of time and concerns about safety, privacy and ethics. To get started, open an account on any online platform such as ChatGPT or Google Bard, both of which have free versions.

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Practical Ways to Use AI in 2024

Grants4Good

MAY 3, 2024

As a nonprofit leader, you might not be using AI; most nonprofits aren’t — citing lack of time and concerns about safety, privacy and ethics. To get started, you can open an account on any online platform such as ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini, both of which have free versions. We are focused on [your project purpose].” #2

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AI Will Not Take Your Job, But Someone Using AI Might

Grant Professionals Association

MAY 1, 2024

The Imperative: Listen and Learn As grant professionals, we’re inundated by articles, webinars, and marketing messages about AI’s role in prospect research and analysis, proposal and report writing, and more. To date, I’ve tried a variety of AI tools including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Anthropic’ s Claude.

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Grants & AI: The New Normal

Grant Consulting Services

JULY 31, 2023

As we continue to see growth in the nonprofit realm, automation and artificial intelligence will increase in popularity as we determine how and when to ethically use it to help organizations increase their productivity while focusing on serving their communities and mission. Ethical or Unethical? Resources Artificial Intelligence.

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AI and Grants: Divine Tool or Slippery Slope?

Sharpshooter Communications

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As a grant professional, I have an enduring faith in the myriad of talents needed to craft comprehensive and convincing proposals -- talents that can’t be automated by artificial intelligence (AI) -- but I also understand the existential fear of our profession being devalued or compromised through technology.

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AI and the Grant Professional: a Divine Tool or Pit of Iniquity?

Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As a grant professional, I have an enduring faith in the myriad of talents needed to craft comprehensive and convincing proposals -- talents that can’t be automated by artificial intelligence (AI) -- but I also understand the existential fear of our profession being devalued or compromised through technology.

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Using AI to Improve Your Grant Writing

Grants4Good

JUNE 17, 2023

If you need a primer on AI, check out my blog on AI and ChatGPT: What is it and how do I use it? It has the ability to help take existing written content and quickly draft responses to grant proposal prompts, and to rework responses to adjust things like length and tone. This is one of the hottest topics right now, so jump right in! [If

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