A quick look at Smarter Grant Writing with AI

AI is supposed to speed up grant writing. But for many teams, it creates more work than it saves: it invents details, flattens your voice into bland, repetitive copy, and misses what funders actually care about.

Table of Contents:

1. How to Use this Workbook
2. A Word of Encouragement + Resources
3. Why You Can Trust This Workbook on AI
4. Where Am I Now? Quick Self-Assessment
5. Why Use AI for Grant Writing
6. Is AI Going to Take My Job? / Am I Helping AI to One Day Take My Job?
7. Ethics of AI-Assisted Grant Writing
8. How Large Language Models Actually Work (In Plain Language)
9. Data Privacy and Protection
10. Talking With Your Staff, Board, and Funders
11. How to Incorporate Your Grant Writing Skills When You Use AI
12. Best Practices for AI
13. Integrating AI into Your Workflow
14. Best Practices for Prompting
15. Sample AI Use Policy for Grant Prospecting and Writing
16. Conclusion: You’re Ready to Lead Smarter Grant Work

What You’ll Learn to Do

This workbook teaches you how to use AI responsibly and effectively for grant writing.

You’ll learn how to:

• Analyze RFPs and NOFOs using structured prompts to extract requirements and scoring criteria.
• Decide quickly whether an opportunity is worth pursuing.
• Build reusable materials (organization profile + Standard Grant Narrative) that turn AI into a focused drafting assistant.
• Run quality checks that catch hallucinations, unsupported claims, repetition, and off-voice language before submission.
• Integrate AI into your existing grant workflow so research, writing, and program information live in one system—not scattered across chats.
• The emphasis is on verification-first workflows, because rushing into AI without foundations creates more risk than value.

Who This Workbook Is For

Best for:
Grant professionals who are new to AI (or frustrated by generic results) and want a repeatable, responsible workflow.

Not for:
Anyone looking for a single prompt to generate full proposals without human judgment.

You don’t need to be an AI expert. You only need:

Basic copy-paste skills

Willingness to treat AI output as drafts

The professional judgment you already use every day
 

Your purchase includes:

1. The full Smarter Grant Writing with AI workbook (digital)
2. AI prompt templates you can copy and reuse
3. Access to Custom GPT tools for grant writing and grant search
4. An example Standard Grant Narrative showing how the workflows look in practice
5. Supporting resources referenced throughout the workbook
    

Extra Bonus Video Included: Practical Strategies for Using Generative AI for Grant Writing

Why You Can Trust This Workbook

This workbook is grounded in real grant work and evidence-based writing practice:

Research + writing pedagogy: Dr. Krista Kurlinkus is a trained researcher and university writing instructor.
10+ years of grant consulting: Built from real grant pipelines, narratives, and client systems.

Early, hands-on AI use: Developed inside live grant portfolios—not one-off experiments.

10,000+ students taught: Refined through teaching thousands of grant professionals.

Stress-tested with real organizations: Designed for deadlines, compliance, and multi-stakeholder teams.

Everything here comes from lived experience: real grants, real clients, and real learners.

Guarantee :Try it risk-free.

If this workbook isn’t helpful for your grant writing process, you’re covered by a 100% money-back guarantee.

About the Author of This Workbook

Dr. Krista Kurlinkus is the author of Smarter Grant Writing with AI: A Practical Workbook on Ethics, Prompts, and Workflow and the founder of Grant Writing Made Easy.

With over a decade of hands-on consulting and training, she helps nonprofit professionals write stronger grants while confidently adopting AI in ethical, practical ways. A nationally recognized grant writing educator with a Ph.D. in English and a GPA-approved trainer, Dr. Kurlinkus has personally written winning multi-million-dollar federal, state, and foundation grants for more than 100 nonprofit, government, and academic clients.

Through Grant Writing Made Easy, she has trained over 10,000 students to clarify their missions, strengthen proposals, and secure sustainable funding.

In Smarter Grant Writing with AI, Dr. Kurlinkus brings this real-world experience together into a clear, step-by-step system for responsible AI use—covering data privacy, ethical boundaries, effective prompting, workflow integration, and how to confidently discuss AI with staff, boards, and funders—so grant professionals can save time, improve clarity, and stay credible in an AI-powered world.