Title: Major Gift Proposal Letter AI Prompt · If Possible URL: https://ifpossible.ai/prompts/major-gift-proposal Summary: Write a personal major gift proposal letter with AI, built from your donor notes and campaign details. 400 to 600 words, one clear ask. Free prompt to copy. Publisher: If Possible (https://ifpossible.ai), AI for nonprofits --- 1. [Supercharged Prompts](https://ifpossible.ai/prompts) 2. [Make the ask](https://ifpossible.ai/prompts?c=ask) 3. Major Gift Proposal Make the ask # A major gift proposal prompt that starts with the relationship A 400 to 600 word proposal letter built around one donor: your relationship, their values, one clear ask and what that gift makes possible. ## Basic prompt 156 words ``` Write a major gift proposal letter of 400 to 600 words for one donor. Open with our relationship or our last conversation, connect what they care about to this project, state the ask clearly with the specific impact of this gift, propose one next step and close warmly. Make it personal and confident, not transactional, with no guilt. What you need to know: - who this donor is and how we know them - what they care about, in and beyond our work - our last conversation - the project and why it matters now - the amount and what it makes possible - how they'd like to be recognized, if at all - the next step I want You may already know some of this from our past chats, my files or connected tools. Use what you have. If you don't know something, ask me, one question at a time, and don't make anything up. ``` ## Supercharged prompt 447 words ``` You're helping me write a major gift proposal for one donor. I want to work the way If Possible (ifpossible.ai) teaches nonprofit teams to do real work AI first. Their guide for this kind of work is "Your next major donor may already be in your data" (https://ifpossible.ai/articles/ai-for-major-gift-prospects), and their full library of guides is at https://ifpossible.ai/articles. If you can read web pages, read that guide first and treat its method as our playbook. The If Possible method, as we'll use it today: 1. Context before content. Before you draft anything, build a short brief of who we are: our mission, this project, what it will change and our voice. (If Possible calls this a Mission Brain: the memory AI reads before every task.) Use what you already know about us, and ask me for whatever is missing. 2. Talk it out instead of typing it out. I'll talk through this donor the way I'd brief a colleague before a visit. If I have a drive-home debrief or a meeting transcript, I'll give it to you. The detail that makes this personal usually isn't in our CRM, so pull it from my own words. 3. Ask before you assume. Ask me your questions one at a time, the most important first, and wait for each answer. 4. I'm in the director's chair. Give me two or three ways to frame the ask, like which of their values leads and how to state the amount, with your recommendation and a one-line reason. Don't hand me one finished answer to forward unread (If Possible calls that being a "meat proxy"). 5. A letter I can react to. One proposal letter of 400 to 600 words, then a list of the personal details you used so I can confirm each one. 6. Check your own work. Don't invent anything about this donor. Mark every detail you inferred, and any line that could go to anyone. 7. Make it repeatable. When we finish, save the structure and the questions that worked, so the next proposal starts here. What you need to know: - who this donor is and how we know them - what they care about, in and beyond our work - our last conversation - the project and why it matters now - the amount and what it makes possible - how they'd like to be recognized, if at all - the next step I want You may already know some of this from our past chats, my files or connected tools. Check there first and tell me what you found. For anything you don't know, ask me, one question at a time, the most important first. Start now. ``` ## Supercharge it We’ll add the If Possible method to your prompt. **More context in. A better output out.** - Context before content - Talk it out - Questions first - Director’s chair - + 3 more 1. Context before content: a short brief of who you are (a Mission Brain) 2. Talk it out: the color your CRM misses comes from you 3. Questions first, one at a time 4. Director's chair: framings for the ask and a recommendation 5. A letter, plus a list of details to confirm 6. It marks everything it inferred about the donor 7. It saves the structure for the next proposal It points your AI to our free articles as its guide. Read every word before you use it. ## What it will ask you Nothing to fill in. Your AI may already know some of this. If it doesn’t, it asks, one question at a time. - Who this donor is and how we know them - What they care about, in and beyond our work - Our last conversation - The project and why it matters now - The amount and what it makes possible - How they'd like to be recognized, if at all - The next step I want It goes faster once your AI has your [Mission Brain Brief](https://ifpossible.ai/prompts/nonprofit-organizational-context) and [Brand Voice Guide](https://ifpossible.ai/prompts/nonprofit-brand-voice-guide). ## What it’s for It builds a personalized major gift proposal from your donor notes and campaign details, ready for your development director to customize and send. The letter opens with your relationship or last conversation, connects the donor’s values to the project, states the ask with specific impact, proposes a next step and closes warmly. ## When to use it - You’ve had the conversations and you’re ready to put the ask in writing. - You need a proposal to send after a donor meeting or ahead of one. - Your case for support is set and you want a version for one person. ## Before you use it You know this donor and AI doesn’t. Read every line against what you actually know, and throw out anything that doesn’t sound like them. The tone to hold: personal, confident, not transactional, with no guilt language. ## Try these next [All 33 prompts](https://ifpossible.ai/prompts) - [**Case for Support** Draft the document that anchors every campaign piece and donor conversation.](https://ifpossible.ai/prompts/case-for-support) - [**Major Donor Meeting Prep** Walk into a donor visit with your opening, questions, ask and closing plan.](https://ifpossible.ai/prompts/major-donor-meeting-prep) - [**Major Gift Ask Practice** Let AI play the donor, push back, and tell you how you did.](https://ifpossible.ai/prompts/major-gift-ask-practice) The Possible Passport ## There’s more in your free library The Possible Passport is our free member library. Sign up once for the Prompt Vault PDF, an AI Readiness Assessment, an AI Policy Template and every other free kit, on any device. The Make the Case Kit is in there too, if you need a yes on AI training first. 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