The Giving Opportunities Builder
User Guide

How to turn rough campaign notes into a reviewable menu of giving opportunities — before anyone asks you for a polished one-pager.

What this is

The Giving Opportunities Builder organizes a campaign into a menu of giving opportunities a donor can say yes to. You feed it raw material, shape the opportunities one at a time, and it produces a colleague-review report — campaign priorities, gift amounts, anchor opportunities, and donor-facing descriptions, in one document your team can react to.

The sequence is deliberate. Pricing and lead-donor questions come after the first-pass opportunity list exists, so you never answer abstract campaign questions before you can see the menu.

How to use it

Collect the raw material. Paste a URL, summarize the campaign, or brain dump what you know. Rough notes are welcome — polish comes later.
Build the giving opportunities one at a time. Add each opportunity as it comes to you. The report updates as you type.
Confirm who reviews it. Name the internal reviewer and pick the tone — warm and campaign-ready, visionary, practical, urgent, relational, or institutional. This positions the output as an internal review report, not finished donor collateral.
Copy or download the report. It comes out as clean Markdown, ready to paste anywhere your team works.

What you leave with

A structured Giving Opportunities Report your colleagues can mark up — the full first-pass menu of what a donor could fund, with descriptions written for review rather than for print. The polished one-page handout comes after this step, not before it.

Pass it on

The Builder is free and yours to share with any fundraiser staring at a campaign that hasn't been broken into pieces a donor can act on.

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Take it to your whole organization

Empowered Fundraiser helps nonprofits and campaigns build giving that lasts, without years of trial and error. If the Builder moved your campaign forward, a strategy session is the next step.