Civic AI Prompt Library
Fundraising:
- We currently do X, Y, and Z. How can we improve our current fundraising strategy?
- Generate a persuasive donation request letter to a program officer who likes our project, but hasn’t funded it yet.
- What are some innovative ideas for digital fundraising events?
- Create a proposal for corporate sponsorship that keeps decision-making in-house.
- Give examples of successful fundraising campaigns from other organizations.
- Develop a script for a fundraising call for someone who hates asking for money over the phone.
- How can we leverage social media for fundraising?
- How can we interact more with high net worth individuals as potential donors for our organization?
- Write an engaging email asking for recurring donations.
- Take this grant language of everything we promised to do, and write it as a grant report, where we’ve now done all the things.
Volunteer Management:
- Develop a recruitment strategy for new volunteers.
- Write a volunteer training manual.
- What are the best ways to motivate and engage our volunteers?
- Write a thank-you letter to our volunteers.
- How can we better coordinate volunteer activities?
- Create a volunteer job description.
- Write an email inviting volunteers to a training session.
- How can we best use technology to manage volunteers?
- Develop a volunteer appreciation event plan.
- What are the potential challenges in volunteer management and how can we address them?
Communications:
- Help us create a communication strategy for our organization.
- Write a press release about our recent success.
- Develop a monthly newsletter for our stakeholders.
- How can we better communicate our mission and vision?
- Write an engaging social media post about our work.
- Create a script for a promotional video about our organization.
- What are the best ways to handle crisis communication?
- How can we identify media contacts from our personal and professional networks?
- Write a speech for our CEO’s presentation at a conference.
- How can we increase the visibility of our organization?
- Create a social media strategy for a nonprofit
Member and Partner Relations:
- Develop a strategy for building strong relationships with our members and partners.
- Write a letter of appreciation to our partners.
- What are the key elements of successful partnership building?
- Create an invitation for our annual members’ meeting.
- How can we best communicate with our members and partners?
- Write a partnership proposal.
- Develop a membership recruitment plan.
- How can we increase member involvement in our activities?
- Write a partnership agreement template.
- How can we manage conflicts or disagreements with partners
Leadership and Governance:
- What are the qualities of effective leadership in civil society organizations?
- Develop a code of conduct for our board members.
- How can we improve our board meetings?
- Write a board member recruitment letter.
- What are the responsibilities of our board members?
- Develop a board training module.
- How can we enhance transparency and accountability in our organization?
- Write a governance policy for our organization.
- What are the roles of staff and board in our organization?
- How can we best manage the relationship between the board and the CEO?
Capacity Building and Training:
- Help us create a capacity-building plan for our organization.
- Write a training module on fundraising.
- What are the key elements of effective staff training?
- How would you go about developing a webinar on policy advocacy?
- How can we evaluate the effectiveness of our training programs?
- Create a mentorship program plan.
- Write a guide on using digital tools in our work.
- What are some innovative training methods for our organization?
- Develop a training schedule for our staff.
- How can we best support the professional development of our staff?
Campaigning:
- Help us create a campaign strategy for promoting democracy.
- Develop a memorable slogan for our campaign.
- Write a press release about our upcoming campaign, which is to…
- What are some effective communication channels for our campaign?
- Our campaign is to… Generate talking points for our campaign’s mission and objectives.
- Create a script for a 3-minute campaign video, and steps for how to produce it with minimal budget.
- How can we better mobilize volunteers for our campaign?
- Write a persuasive Op-Ed promoting our campaign.
- Generate a social media plan for our campaign, including a content calendar and sample posts for each of the major platforms.
- How can we create a sense of urgency around our campaign?
Policy Advocacy:
- Help us create a strategy for advocating for our cause with policymakers.
- Write a letter to a legislator advocating for our cause.
- We work to… What are the most compelling arguments for our policy position?
- Generate talking points for a policy debate.
- Develop a white paper outlining our policy recommendations.
- How can we best engage with policymakers?
- Create a petition text advocating for policy change.
- Write a policy briefing for our staff.
- What are some examples where other organizations succeeded with policy advocacy campaigns?
- How can we best leverage research and data in our policy advocacy?
Deepak Puri at the Democracy Labs has been busy experimenting with (partisan) generative AI methods like:
- Creating rapid response political videos with Synthesia
- Creating political memes with MidJourney
- Deconstructing and rebutting political opponents’ policies and talking points with ChatGPT
Research and Data Analysis:
- What are the current trends in civil society engagement?
- How can we better use data to drive decision-making?
- Write a summary of key findings from our recent survey.
- Develop a questionnaire for our research project.
- What are the main challenges in data collection and how can we overcome them?
- How can we analyze the impact of our activities?
- Write a report on our research findings.
- What are some useful sources for data and information related to our work?
- Create a data visualization for our annual report.
- How can we improve our data management practices?
Public Engagement:
- Develop a strategy for engaging members of the public to enhance our work.
- Write a script for opening a town hall meeting.
- What are the best ways to engage with local communities who aren’t especially online?
- Generate a list of topics for our podcast series.
- Develop a set of conversation-starting discussion questions to kick off a public forum.
- How can we use storytelling for better public engagement?
- Write a FAQ page for our website.
- How can we best leverage social media for public engagement?
- Create a survey to gauge public opinion on our issue.
- Now make the survey educational about the issue.
- Write a blog post about our recent activities and successes.
Image generation prompts
- “Visualize our planned community garden project in an urban setting. Make it solarpunk.”
- “Generate an engaging image for a social media post about our upcoming volunteer event.”
- “Create a campaign poster promoting our movement.”
- “Design a promotional image for our annual charity event.”
- “Convert our latest research data on local climate change into an infographic featuring elements from our city.”
- “Illustrate the impact of these abstract policies on some cute animals.”
- “Generate a series of flat graphic images that tell the success story of a family who used our housing services tool.”
- “Create a set of fresh and engaging images related to our mission for our website update.”
- “Generate a modern image to be used as a cover for our annual report that reflects our work promoting civic literacy.”
- “Design a logo concept and color palette for our ‘Green Cities’ environmental initiative.”