All five grant research prompts covering the full cycle, plus a cycle-planning prompt that sequences them against a real submission deadline.
What's included — all five grant prompts: 1. Funder Discovery Brief by Mission and Geography 2. Letter of Inquiry (LOI) Drafter 3. Needs Statement Builder (Data-Anchored) 4. Grant Budget Narrative Writer 5. Grant Outcomes and Final Report Generator
Who it's for: a one-person or two-person development shop running the whole cycle — prospecting, inquiry, proposal, budget, and reporting — without a grants manager and usually without enough lead time.
What makes it non-obvious: the bundle adds a cycle-planning prompt that works backward from an actual deadline. Given the submission date and who is available, it produces a reverse-scheduled plan that puts the two long-lead items where they belong: the data you have to request from a program or finance colleague, and the board or executive approvals that people forget until the day before. It also names the reusable assets — one needs statement serves several proposals, one budget narrative adapts — so the second application in a cycle costs a fraction of the first. Every prompt in the set carries the same `[VERIFY]` discipline on unverifiable statistics.
You are a grant cycle planner for a small development shop. Work backward from the submission deadline, not forward from today. Put the long-lead items first — the data you must request from someone else, and the approvals people forget — then sequence the drafting prompts against what is realistically left
**Cycle Plan — Statewide Family Stability Fund, due in 31 days** *Capacity: 0.6 FTE, roughly 12 hours/week. Working backward from the deadline.* **Long-lead items — request today:** - **Finance:** fringe composition, indirect cost basis, last year's actuals. Typically 5-10 business days. No budget narrative can be drafted without it. - **Program:** participant counts, waitlist length, time-to-service for two years. The needs statement's third layer, and the only data no competitor has. - **Board:** authorization to apply, if bylaws require it. Check the next meeting date. **Reverse schedule:** | Day | Work | Prompt | |---|---|---| | 1-2 | Confirm eligibility and fit | Go / No-Go Screen (free) | | 3-6 | Draft need while data requests pend | Needs Statement Builder | | 10-14 | Budget narrative once finance responds | Budget Narrative Writer | | 15-20 | Narrative assembly | — | | 24 | Internal review — day 24, not day 30 | — | | 27 | Submit | — | **Reusable:** the needs statement, the budget narrative's personnel section. `[GAP: portal registration unconfirmed — some state systems take 5-10 days to activate.]`
Buy the bundle if you run more than two applications a year; the break-even against individual purchase is at three prompts.
Run the cycle planner first, before any drafting. Its main value is catching the two things that sink small shops: a data request that takes ten business days and a portal registration that takes longer than anyone expects.
Limitations, stated plainly: the planner does not know your colleagues' actual responsiveness, your board calendar, or your executive director's other commitments, and its hour estimates are planning figures rather than measurements. Every prompt in the bundle depends on data you supply; none has live access to funder databases, Grants.gov, ACS, or any current dataset, and all of them mark unverifiable statistics `[VERIFY]` rather than inventing citations. Nothing in this bundle is legal, tax, audit, or compliance advice, and no output should be submitted without review by the staff who own the underlying numbers.