Who is the Fundraising Writing Filter for?

Any nonprofit fundraiser who uses ChatGPT or Claude to write donor communications. The filter removes AI-detectable patterns — banned words, passive constructions, structural tells — so donor letters, grant narratives, and thank-you notes read like a development professional wrote them.

What is The Development Director's First Year course?

A self-paced online course for first-year development directors at small and mid-sized nonprofits. Nine modules, 59 written lessons, 29 downloadable templates, and 9 quizzes. Each module produces a deliverable: a fundraising plan, donor retention system, sponsorship package, board engagement menu, grant calendar, monthly giving launch checklist, and year-end campaign plan. $97. Enrollment opens April 17, 2026.

Kyle Conner is a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) with six years of frontline development experience at small and mid-sized nonprofits. He created the Fundraising Writing Filter and The Development Director's First Year course to give new development directors the frameworks and tools he wished he had in his first year.

Who is this course for?

First-year development directors at small and mid-sized nonprofits, and executive directors wearing the fundraising hat. Half the enrollees are EDs with no dedicated development staff. Every recommendation accounts for limited time and no team.

How long does it take to complete the course?

Most practitioners finish all nine modules in 6-8 weeks, a few hours per week. The course is self-paced and mirrors a real first-year timeline — you can move through it as your own year unfolds, applying each module's deliverable when you need it.

What format is the course?

Text-primary. Written lessons you can read, reference, and apply. One welcome video (3-5 minutes). Everything else is written content with 29 downloadable templates, worksheets, and checklists you can use immediately.

What is included in the 29 templates?

A complete development program: diagnostic worksheet, 12-month fundraising plan, donor segmentation map, editorial calendar, sponsorship package, grant calendar, board fundraising menu, monthly-giving launch checklist, year-end campaign plan, and more. Professional-grade, editable, yours to keep.

Is there a money-back guarantee?

All sales are final. The course delivers immediate value through the downloadable templates and frameworks — you walk away with a functioning development program whether you complete every lesson or not. Start with the free Fundraising Writing Filter to see the quality firsthand.

What is the AI Toolkit?

The AI Toolkit is a set of custom instruction files for ChatGPT and Claude. The Fundraising Writing Filter is included free with course enrollment. The full toolkit — adding three specialized skills for Appeals, Board Engagement, and Grant Narratives — is a $47 add-on at checkout.

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The Fundraising Writing Filter is a free custom instruction file for ChatGPT and Claude. Load it once. Every donor letter, appeal, grant narrative, and thank-you it writes passes through a detection-driven editing system that strips AI-detectable patterns before you see the output. Six years of frontline donor communications is what determines which words to ban, which constructions to flag, and exactly how to instruct an AI to write like a development professional. Not a content generator.

Free. Works with ChatGPT and Claude. No credit card.

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$13.8M

Raised

3,625

Gifts processed

10+

Years in nonprofit

Years as dev director

45%+

Donor retention rate

What's Inside

What the Filter covers.

AI detection tools measure two things: perplexity (how predictable your word choices are) and burstiness (how much the energy varies across a document). This filter addresses both — plus the structural patterns, banned words, and passive voice constructions that flag your writing before a human even reads it.

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Banned Word List

Over 100 words and phrases statistically overrepresented in AI-generated text — some by 900x. Using them in donor communications is like stamping "written by a chatbot" on the page.

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Structural Tells

The triplet pattern. The colon-explanation chain. The rhetorical Q&A. The summary paragraph. AI writing has predictable shapes. This section shows you how to break them.

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Passive Voice

Passive voice hides who did what, softens impact, and adds unnecessary words. The filter catches it in main clauses and subordinate clauses — including the ones that survive a first pass.

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Perplexity & Burstiness

The actual math behind AI detection tools. Perplexity is word predictability. Burstiness is energy variation across a document. The filter explains what each one measures and how to move the numbers.

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Fundraising Tone Calibration

The target voice after filtering. Confident, not arrogant. Direct, not curt. Warm without tipping into sentiment. Includes tone tests for appeals, donor letters, and grant proposals.

About the Author

Kyle Conner, CFRE

Nonprofit Revenue Strategy & Philanthropic Growth · Greater Philadelphia

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Six years as Director of Development at a pediatric skilled nursing facility in Delaware. $13.8 million raised across 3,625 gifts. Built the development program from an empty desk and a Rolodex nobody had updated since 2014.

Kyle built this filter because he knew what good donor writing sounded like before AI existed. He could hear when it didn't. Six years of writing appeals, grant narratives, and thank-you letters for real donors produced the banned word list, the structural flags, and the tone calibration inside it. The detection science confirms what the writing instinct already caught. You get it free.

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Free. Works with ChatGPT and Claude. Load it once and every piece it produces passes through the filter automatically.

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