3 Reasons to Never Use AI for Your Grant Submissions
If you are thinking of skipping out on hiring the talents of a grant writer for funding non-profit initiatives or research and rely on Artificial Intelligence (AI), I beg you to reconsider.
Here are three reasons to never use AI for your grant submissions:
1. AI has a way of saying everything but not really anything at all. It uses flowery language that *appears* to be well-constructed, but you really need to dig to find the central messaging of what a submission for funding is trying to convey. AI does not have the power to nail down your intent for funding; it generalizes the specifics by disguising your intentions with catch-phrases and plays off the language of the funding opportunity's guidelines.
2. Your submission if it is AI-generated will likely miss the details on which funding decisions depend. Funds are limited for most grant opportunities, and it's up to the adjudication committee to poke holes in your submission to ensure that funds are being allocated responsibly. I know this because I spent 6+ years as an adjudicator where funding was limited, and the demand exceeded the funding available. We needed to ask the tough questions in order to ensure funds were allocated where they'd be effectively utilized.
3. AI often misses nuance, reducing the need for funding down to generalizations rather than specifics. It's the specifics that count when adjudicating needs for funding. AI doesn't yet have the power to convey nuance.
This is why hiring a grant writer is important. Please do your organization and those you serve a favour by not using AI for writing your grant submissions. Use an actual human who asks the questions and works with intention to understand the funding opportunity and how your needs for funding match it.
Words for Impact does the hard work to understand the funding opportunity, your organization, and what you're wanting to get funded, and finds the words that matter for the things that matter.
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Anne-Marie E. Fischer, BA (Hons), M.Ed., blends her passion for the written word with her vocation to create a better world through effective communications, education, and Community Based Research (CBR).
Words for Impact is the culmination of Anne-Marie’s passions, talents, training, experience, and education. This unique company offers grant writing, research studies, research reports, impact reports, content development, brand development, communications consulting, biography/autobiography (ghost)writing, education and training materials, curriculum development, podcast script writing, journalistic articles, press releases, developmental editing, in-line editing, and fact-checking.
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