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Rewrite a generic ChatGPT draft of a £12,000 charity grant application

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ChatGPT's charity grant draft didn't stand out. A rewrite with 47 waitlisted children and a real story won the £12,000 funding.

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I run a small arts education charity and I'm applying to a local authority fund worth £12,000. Here are the fund's guidance notes and questions and some information about our work. Draft answers to each question for our grant application, keeping within the word limits.

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Before you start, ask me 1–3 short questions about the details below and wait for my answers. Once I've answered, confirm the plan in one line and run the whole task start to finish.

Goal: Draft a grant application that sounds like my organization and is built on our real numbers and stories, not stock phrases.

Questions to ask me first:
- What does the fund want to pay for, and what are the questions and word limits?
- What are your real numbers (people served, waiting list, volunteers, costs)?
- What is one specific story that shows your impact?

Inputs (fill in or confirm):
- Fund guidance and questions: [GUIDANCE]
- Our numbers: [NUMBERS]
- One or two real stories (with permission, first names changed if needed): [STORIES]
- Budget: [BUDGET]

Rules:
- Use only facts and figures I give you; mark any gap with [NEED].
- Avoid stock phrases such as 'fostering meaningful engagement' or 'empower diverse stakeholders'; write plainly.
- Answer each question directly in its word limit.
- Don't repeat the same phrase across answers.

Checkpoint: Draft one answer first so I can check the tone before you do the rest.

If you get stuck: If I haven't given enough detail for an answer, ask me questions instead of padding.

Verify before you finish: List every number in the draft with the input it came from, and flag repeated phrases.

Output: Answers to each question with word counts, plus a list of [NEED] gaps.

Done when: Every answer uses our real details and reads like us.

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Outcome

A friend of marketing consultant Lilach Bullock runs a small arts education charity in Bristol and spent three evenings drafting a grant application with ChatGPT for a £12,000 local authority fund. Before it went in, Bullock read it: it was smooth and grammatically perfect but completely forgettable, with stock phrases such as 'we are committed to fostering meaningful engagement within the community' appearing four times in two pages. The two rewrote it together, adding the charity's actual numbers (47 children on the waiting list and 3 volunteer tutors) and one specific story about a child who went from refusing to read aloud to volunteering for the school assembly, and cut the AI-flavored filler by about 60%. The charity got the funding.

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What went wrong: ChatGPT's first draft was too generic to submit. The funding came only after a human rewrite that added the charity's own numbers and a real story.

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by Lilach Bullock (personal blog)
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https://www.lilachbullock.com/ai-tools-for-writing-grant-applications/

Context: This is a secondhand account from Bullock, an AI and marketing consultant, about a friend's application, in a post reviewing AI writing tools.

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