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February 25, 2024

GrantOrb: Your Expert AI Grant Writer

Write winning grant proposals in minutes

GrantOrb — your expert AI grant writer, launch announcement

GrantOrb — your expert AI grant writer

I’m thrilled to introduce GrantOrb — an AI grant writer that crafts winning grant proposals in minutes from just a brief outline of the project. GrantOrb saves you 95% of the time that would have been spent writing a grant. This time can now be put towards the mission, and 10x your fundraising capacity.

Having spent years raising funds for nonprofits, I’m convinced AI is a game changer and will completely transform the nonprofit space in the next couple of years. Most nonprofits live and die by their ability to raise funds for their cause — and grant applications are the keys that unlock access to these funds.

I believe that if funding is dependent on your ability to communicate clearly your project and your credibility to execute on it, why make communication skills a blocker in your mission? Larger organizations already get help from consultants — so why not use AI to democratize this for the rest of us.

Over the past couple of months I’ve been focused on building an AI tool that’s engineered to write winning grant proposals. My years of experience raising from leading foundations like Rockefeller, Salesforce, and the Singapore government — coupled with an AI tuned to generate grants like the ones that helped me raise millions of dollars — is unlocking access to funds for hundreds of nonprofits.

Generative AI can already accomplish intelligent, creative tasks in seconds — you’ve seen that with ChatGPT, Midjourney, and others. We’re bringing this generative power to grant writing.

Simply describe your project in brief. The AI uses that information to write a full compelling proposal in under 5 minutes. You can either start with a brief outline or just a description of your idea.

For your next grant, try GrantOrb to help you write a great proposal quickly.

If you have any questions, reach out to me on LinkedIn.


Originally published on Substack — read the original →.


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