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The Giving Opportunities Builder
User Guide
Turn fundraising priorities into an editable, donor-ready document without starting from a blank page.
What the Builder does
The Giving Opportunities Builder helps you organize what a donor could fund, the amount or range, and what the funding would make possible. Then it drafts the document you choose on the same page.
You choose the format, the audience, and what should appear. Optional brand details let you add a primary color, logo, image, contact information, or a verified proof point. The finished draft is editable before you copy, download, or print it.
How to use it
- Describe the fundraising priority. Add the organization name or an alias and the background material you already have. You can paste notes or upload text-based files. Campaign Readiness Self-Assessment results can come along too.
- Describe each giving opportunity. Add the title, amount or range, donor-facing description, and what the gift will accomplish. Internal notes stay out of the finished donor document.
- Choose the document. Select a one-page giving opportunity, a set of selected opportunities, a full menu, or a proposal. You can create a general version or shape it around relationship context you already know.
- Add optional presentation details. Enter a hex code for the primary brand color. You can also add a logo, image, contact information, or a verified quote or proof point. Logo and image files stay in your browser.
- Create the document. Select Create my document. Review the facts, edit any wording you want, then copy the text, download the HTML, or print it as a PDF.
What you can customize
The same giving opportunity can serve different conversations. Choose only the details that help with the version you need.
- Show or hide the gift amount.
- Add a “Why now” section when timing is relevant.
- Include recognition information your organization is prepared to offer.
- Add a next step for the reader.
- Use a specific donor’s known interests or relationship context without requiring a donor name.
- Apply a primary brand color with a hex code.
- Add a logo or image locally to the document.
Information and privacy
The text you enter is sent to the AI service used by Empowered Fundraiser when you create a draft. Keep donor names, contact information, and private information out unless your organization permits you to share it. Logo and image uploads stay in your browser and are added to the document locally.
The Builder tells the writer to use only the facts you supplied. Review amounts, commitments, recognition information, and other factual claims before sharing the document.
A complete example
This example shows the full path from rough information to a finished one-page giving opportunity.
Dummy information
- Organization Riverbend Community Arts Center
- Project A $3.2 million expansion of the community arts center
- Opportunity Community Arts Studio
- Gift amount $250,000
- The gift funds Construction, sinks, storage, work surfaces, specialized equipment, and furnishings
- Impact More year-round arts classes for children and adults
Choices in the Builder
- Document type One-page giving opportunity
- Audience General donor audience
- Writing style Warm and confident
- Show amount Yes
- Why now Construction planning is underway, and equipment decisions are being made with the project
- Primary brand color #6B3FA0
- Logo and image Skipped for this example
The finished document
Create a Community Arts Studio
$250,000
Riverbend’s expansion will create a dedicated studio where children and adults can learn, experiment, and make art throughout the year.
What your gift makes possible
A gift of $250,000 will complete and equip the studio with specialized work areas, sinks, storage, furnishings, and the equipment instructors need for hands-on arts programs.
The new studio gives Riverbend room to offer more year-round classes in a space designed for making art.
Why now
Construction planning is underway, and equipment and furnishing decisions are being made with the rest of the project.
Next step
We would welcome a conversation about this opportunity and the role your philanthropy could play.
Riverbend Community Arts Center · riverbendarts.example
Reuse the content later
The underlying information stays useful after the one-page document is finished. Keep the same verified descriptions and impact language available for a later proposal, stewardship update, impact report, campaign page, or follow-up conversation.
Get to a useful first version
The Builder is designed to get you to a solid first version quickly. Edit the wording, swap the image, adjust the layout, or pass the draft to a designer when the situation calls for more production. You do not have to solve the content and the design at the same time.
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