No joke, writing a proposal is a hunk of work. 💪 You have the project management skills to complete the marathon of writing a proposal in strides, but a hunch tells us you’re looking for ways to make the grant writing process easier. We had the same desire! ♥️
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Enter Philip Deng 💡 co-founder of Grantable, an AI-powered proposal writing assistant that helps individuals write grants 5x times faster.
Even if you’re hesitant about the emergence of Ai, take a hot second to think about that- 5x more free time. Buy back your time ringing a bell? 🔔
We’re all about more time for the things you love! Here is a free training on how to build a flexible life with a career in grant writing: www.learngrantwriting.org/web...
We wanted to tackle our own questions around Ai + grant writing so we teamed up with Philip Deng to ask questions about Ai in the industry. 🤖
Philip brings 15 years of nonprofit sector experience, including as a founder and executive director, grants manager, and freelance grant consultant.
He's been using his genius to explore the cross section of technology and the nonprofit sector since 2020.
In this fireside we get into the meat of Ai and its role in the nonprofit sector:
✨ Is Ai Going To Take My Job As A Grant Writer?
✨ How Grantable Came To Be
✨ How Is Grantable Better Than Chat Gpt For Grant Writers?
✨ How To Learn Ai Re-Training & Prompting (Boundaries, Examples)
✨ The Workflow Of A First, Second, And Third Draft
✨ The Number of Organizations Going After Grants Will Increase (the sector prioritizing equity)
✨ Nonprofits As Part Of This Tech Revolution With Ai Being Human-Centered Technology
​Bottom line: Ai won’t take your job. Someone using Ai will. Whether you’re pumped about it or threatened (all valid feelings!), know that you're on the font end of this.
You're not getting left behind.
Take a deep breath and lean into your curiosity, explore, tinker listen and learn from Philip as he talks about thinking forward with excitement. Pretty neat that the nonprofit sector has an unprecedented role to play in this technical revolution.
You can sign up for a free Grantable account with a name and email here: grantable.co/?via=lgw
↪️ Upgrading to the premium account? Use discount code UNICORN at checkout for two months free (equivalent of 100,000 tokens of usage).
Wanting to build on Ai technology, but not confident about grant writing? Listen to Meredith’s book, “How to Write a Grant: Become a Grant Writing Unicorn” for free here: www.learngrantwriting.org/fre...
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🧡 The Team at Learn Grant Writing
Resources:
Grantable: grantable.co/?via=lgw
The Process Podcast: philipdeng.substack.com/
Philip Deng’s article “Removing the AI From Artificial Intelligence”
philipdeng.substack.com/p/rem...
Stats:
1% Of All Applicants Take Down Half of all grants every year
93% write grants without external help
7% use external help from consultants or firms
75% of organizations have a budget of $500K or less
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:00 Who Is Philip Deng? Touching Grant Writing From All Angles
02:40 Is Ai Going To Take My Job As A Grant Writer?
04:14 The Number of Organizations Going After Grants Will Increase (the sector prioritizing equity)
04:40 Some Real Numbers In The Industry, Potential For Growth
05:37 Competitiveness Rates and Funders Adopting Changes?
08:50 What Will Happen When The Grantors Start Using Ai To Gauge Authenticity (False Positives In Detectors)
11:55 High-Level Overview of Grantable
13:30 How GPT Is The Large Language Model From OpenAi
15:01 How Is Grantable Better Than ChatGpt For Grant Writers?
18:18 How To Learn Ai Re-Training & Prompting (Boundaries, Examples)
20:15 How The Model Works (Analyzing, Computing, Billions Of Data Points)
24:45 The Educational Side Of Using Grantable (Curiosity)
29:50 Inputting Information From Clients & Privacy
32:00 Reviewing Grants?
36:06 Live View Demo Account Using Real Grant Application
40:16 The Workflow, The First, Second, And Third Draft
44:45 Should You Bring Clients In To Collaboration
47:10 Tokens (Not Crypto) Like Fuel In Your Tank or Battery, Ai Usage
49:40 How To Use .PDFS in Grantable
51:07 How To Think Forward, Nonprofit Is “Business On Hard Mode”
55:00 Nonprofits As Part Of This Tech Revolution With Ai Being Human-Centered Technology
56:55 ChatGPT As A Researcher (A Problem)