This Short Course was created to help Communications and Public Relations professionals accomplish end-to-end AI-assisted grant writing — from funder research to first draft to compliance review. By completing this course, you'll be able to build a custom prompt library and Custom GPT tailored to your organization's voice, saving hours per proposal cycle while maintaining accuracy and funder alignment. By the end of this course, you will be able to:

Design a funder-research prompt that extracts eligibility criteria, thematic priorities, and past award patterns from public sources Configure a Custom GPT instruction set to generate first-draft grant narratives that replicate tone and structure from past winning applications Evaluate AI-generated grant drafts against a guardrail checklist for citation accuracy, confidentiality compliance, and scoring-criteria alignment