Free tool · for small nonprofits and one-person development shops
Organization Boilerplate Builder
Almost every application, sponsorship deck and portal field asks a small nonprofit the same thing first: who are you, and how big are you? Most organizations answer it slightly differently every time, because nobody ever sat down and wrote it once. This free PDF is that hour, done — the two blocks you will paste for the next five years, each shown as a fill-in template and then written out in full.
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What it does
- The 60-word boilerplate — the block for short application fields, press releases, sponsorship decks and your email signature.
- The 150-word organization description — the one most foundation and community-foundation applications actually ask for, in the four movements reviewers expect.
- Each block twice: the fill-in-the-blanks version, and the same passage written out in full for an invented nonprofit, so you can see how much detail is enough before you write a word.
- A print-and-fill worksheet for the eight facts both blocks are assembled from — legal name and EIN, year founded, mission as approved, who you serve, number served and how you counted, programs and staff, budget and audit date, and your most credible funders.
- The one rule underneath both of them: write the fact, not the feeling.
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Need the rest of the application, not just the first paragraph?
This free PDF is 2 of the bank’s 43 templates. The full swipe bank adds the other 41 across nine sections — the letter of inquiry, the statement of need, the program description and logic model, the budget narrative and indirect-cost explanation, sponsorship and donor asks, the reply when you are funded for less than you asked for, and the interim and final reports — every one of them also written out in full, and all 43 worked versions belonging to the same invented nonprofit whose figures reconcile across the whole book. Plus a 44-entry Fact Base, a 12-pair rewrite gallery, a section-by-section table of what a funder is actually reading for, nine print-and-fill worksheets, 43 copy-paste text files and a searchable index.
A one-time purchase you keep and reuse for every funder — the owned swipe file between a blank portal box and a grant consultant’s day rate.
Writing templates and general guidance, not legal, tax, accounting or grant-compliance advice. The example organization, its funders and every figure attached to it are invented; the numbers are illustrative and are not benchmarks. Free to use; please don’t resell or redistribute.