ChatGPT Toolkit & Infrastructure Funding List

I have been a little quiet recently but just wanted to give an update on what I've been working on.

ChatGPT Toolkit

Myself (Kate) and Ian (founder of the Charity Excellence Framework) have been working on a ChatGPT toolkit for charities. The aim of our first toolkit is to teach you to be able to use ChatGPT to find funding.

ChatGPT is relatively simple to use, you just need to learn how to ask it the right questions to get the most relevant and useful answers. Your questions or 'prompts' must be precise and specific. In the toolkit, we will teach you how to create effective prompts through examples and explanations.

Here is a prompt example from the toolkit for finding funding:

Please give me as many UK charitable grant makers as possible that offer small grants to <small, unregistered charities, and constituted community and grassroots groups>, excluding any that require applicants to be registered charities.  Include their websites and additional information if available on their priorities, locations, grant sizes, eligibility and sectors they focus on.

You can give this prompt a try in ChatGPT and see what it comes up with! Any text in italics can be altered to suit your specific needs.

Infrastructure Funder List

We have also been creating an updated funder list for Infrastructure Charities. Ian tells me these charities often struggle to find funding, so I hope this helps! The full list will be on Charity Excellence soon. For now, here are a few from the list:

City Bridge Foundation (London)

• The Infrastructure funding: capacity building and representation fund.  They also have The Anchor programme which also delivers long-term, core funding to the second-tier organisations that support London’s frontline groups but it’s different in that it aims to create systemic change.  

The Fore

• Provide grants to help applicants grow, strengthen, become more efficient or resilient, particularly grassroots organisations working with underserved communities. There are 3 funds. National, South West, (Cornwall) and North West (Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside).

Hope this helps, I'm looking forward to sharing the toolkit and full list of grant makers with you soon!