Hey AI Powered Nonprofit community! I’m so excited to share our newest step-by-step tutorial — Fathom AI + ChatGPT Email Automation — now live in the classroom! If you’ve ever finished a meeting and thought, “I really need to send that follow-up email…” — this automation is about to change your life. You don’t need any coding experience to build this automation.I’ve created the full Make.com blueprint, a detailed PDF setup guide, and a step-by-step video tutorial to walk you through it. In less than an hour, you’ll have your own automation that takes your Fathom AI meeting transcripts and instantly turns them into polished, professional follow-up emails — automatically saved in your Gmail drafts and ready to send. This workflow is a game changer for nonprofit leaders and consultants who want to: - Save time every week by automating repetitive follow-ups - Build capacity and stay focused on mission-critical work - Present a highly polished, responsive, and professional image to partners, clients, and funders Once you set it up, this automation works quietly in the background — helping you show up at your best with almost no extra effort. Head to the classroom to watch the video, download your files, and start saving time today. Use this post to share your results, ask questions, or brainstorm ways to customize your automation — I’ll be checking in and helping you troubleshoot! Let’s work smarter, not harder. — Dr. Cassandra Brentley

We’re kicking off our 5-Step Strategic Planning for Impact journey this month, and Step One: Defining the Problem is now live in the classroom. This week’s focus is on finding the problem your nonprofit aims to solve — the essential first step in any powerful, people-centered strategy. There’s a short video tutorial waiting for you that walks through how to use the ChatGPT prompt to clarify how you currently define the problem your organization exists to address. Here’s the key: AI will not give you the answers, you already have them. It’s simply a tool to help you refine and clarify what you know, making the process faster, smoother, and easier to navigate. For real success, make this a collaborative process. Bring in your board, staff, or members of the community you serve. I also recommend forming a small strategic planning committee to keep you moving through each step with intention and consistency. Your action step this week: ✅ Watch the Step 1 tutorial ✅ Use the ChatGPT prompt to define your problem statement ✅ Drop your problem statement in the comments below — I’ll personally review and provide feedback! Let’s get started building your roadmap for impact.Step One: Defining the Problem is live — go check it out!

Happy Monday! As we move into the last quarter of 2025, I thought it would be important to share with you some resources on setting OKRs and explain how they differ from KPIs. We’ve all heard of KPIs (Key performance indicators) — those ongoing metrics like number of families served, donor retention, or web traffic. They’re important because they tell us where we are and how healthy our operations are. But here’s the thing: KPIs alone don’t push us forward.That’s where OKRs (Objectives & Key Results) come in. - Objectives are bold, inspiring goals. - Key Results are the measurable outcomes that show if we’re actually making progress. Think of it this way: - KPIs = your dashboard check (current status). - OKRs = your GPS (where you’re going and how you’ll know when you arrive). For nonprofits, OKRs are powerful because they take those big, complex missions we all hold — equity, justice, education, community change — and break them into quarterly, actionable goals we can actually execute on. 📎 If you want to dig deeper, check out the attached cheat sheet. 🧰 COMING IN OCTOBER: We’ll be walking through my Strategic Planning for IMPACT framework together, step by step. By the end of the month, you’ll have the chance to build a refreshed strategic plan that includes your very own set of OKRs. I'm curious, when you think about your nonprofit, what’s one bold objective you’d love to achieve by the end of this year?

Hi everyone, happy Friday eve! I just posted a new resource in the classroom showing you step-by-step how to set-up ChatGPT to email you new grant opportunities each week using the task feature. There are so many ways that you can use the task feature in ChatGPT. However, I wanted you to practice using this tool with something really useful that I know a lot of us are always searching for: new grants. For quick access, I linked the lesson below. Please let me know if you set this up and, as always, I am here if you have any questions. Let's go find some new grant opportunities! https://www.skool.com/ai-powered-nonprofit-9472/classroom/a14d3493?md=1f27af11a4ec4f17a52b3bd5822f6442

Welcome back, AI Powered Nonprofit consultants! This community is for consultants who want to save time, build capacity and increase impact for their clients. Each Monday, I will drop one quick win you can implement in minutes. This week’s quick tip: Proposal from notes, in one prompt Paste this into ChatGPT, add your notes, and your proposal is 80% done! Prompt: You are a nonprofit consulting proposal assistant. Convert the notes below into a client-ready proposal. Include: Problem, Desired Outcomes, Scope of Work with phases and deliverables, Timeline with assumptions, Investment with one primary option and one lean option, Next Steps, and Open Questions. Write clearly, use headings and bullets, keep it to two pages.Client: [Name]Project: [Short description]Duration: [X weeks]Notes: [Paste messy notes here] Use this prompt after every discovery call. You will save hours, keep your zone of genius intact, and close new clients faster.