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 "id": "nonprofit-capital-campaign-planner",
 "type": "skill",
 "name": "Nonprofit capital campaign planner",
 "summary": "Test a campaign goal with a gift table, prospect gaps and launch gates.",
 "headline": "Nonprofit capital campaign planner",
 "subhead": "Bring the project cost, documented donor prospects and interview findings. Get a gift table tied to the goal, open feasibility questions and phase gates before a public launch.",
 "job": {
  "id": "plan-strategy",
  "name": "Plan your strategy"
 },
 "level": "intermediate",
 "thinking": "medium",
 "tested": true,
 "updated": "2026-10-28",
 "first_published": "2026-10-25",
 "inputs": [
  {
   "type": "business_profile",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Business profile",
   "what": "a sourced business profile with buyer, offer, activation, growth goal, stage and limits; missing private metrics remain unknown"
  },
  {
   "type": "question",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Question",
   "what": "the problem, decision or piece of work you want help with, and what a good outcome looks like"
  }
 ],
 "outputs": [
  {
   "type": "plan",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Plan",
   "what": "a dated plan: what to do, in what order, with a decision rule for each step"
  },
  {
   "type": "audit_report",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Audit report",
   "what": "findings with evidence, severity, missing inputs and next actions"
  }
 ],
 "you_give": [
  "The project, its cost and your first goal",
  "Your list of prospects and what each could give",
  "Notes from your donor interviews (optional)",
  "Board giving records (optional)",
  "How many staff and volunteers can run the campaign (optional)"
 ],
 "you_get": [
  "A gift range table matched to your goal, with gaps marked",
  "A view of how ready you are, and where your goal looks weak",
  "Leadership roles for the chair, the committee and staff",
  "A phased timeline with a gate for the public launch"
 ],
 "use_when": [
  "Your board wants a big building or endowment campaign and asks if the goal is realistic.",
  "You need a gift table to show the board before anyone asks for a gift.",
  "You are picking a campaign chair and committee and need to know what each role does.",
  "You must decide when to go public and how to avoid clashing with your yearly appeal."
 ],
 "skip_when": [
  "You want to plan your yearly donor mailings or email asks: use your annual appeal plan, not a campaign plan.",
  "You need the wording and ask amount for one major donor: plan that single ask on its own, after the gift table names the prospect.",
  "You have no donor list and no interview notes yet: run the feasibility interviews first, then come back."
 ],
 "output_sample": {
  "input": [
   "The project, its cost and your first goal",
   "Your list of prospects, with how much each could give",
   "Notes from your donor interviews (optional)",
   "Board giving records and your staff and volunteer capacity (optional)"
  ],
  "output": [
   {
    "name": "Feasibility findings",
    "contains": "A recommended goal, leaders who could serve, fixes to the case for support, and whether your team can run the campaign."
   },
   {
    "name": "Gift range table",
    "contains": "Gift tiers worked back from the goal. Each tier shows its goal amount, the named prospects and the gap, so you can see which tiers have no support."
   },
   {
    "name": "Campaign phases and timeline",
    "contains": "The planning, quiet, public and closing phases, with named milestones."
   },
   {
    "name": "Leadership roles",
    "contains": "What the chair, the steering committee and the staff campaign director each do."
   },
   {
    "name": "Public launch gate",
    "contains": "The share of the goal that must be committed before you announce the campaign. Common practice is 50 to 70 percent, which you should check against your own pipeline."
   },
   {
    "name": "Progress dashboard",
    "contains": "Money committed against the goal, by phase and by tier, for board updates."
   }
  ]
 },
 "how_to_use": [
  "Open Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini. No code, web access or paid tool is needed. A feasibility study (15 to 30 confidential interviews with top prospects and leaders) is usually run by an outside consultant. If you run it yourself, use a neutral interviewer and a draft case for support.",
  "Paste the skill text, or upload the skill folder if your AI takes files.",
  "Paste your project cost, goal, prospect list and interview notes. Say what is missing.",
  "Ask for the feasibility findings, then the gift table, then the phases and roles.",
  "Check each tier. If the top tiers have no named prospect, the goal is not yet real. The lead gift share (about 10 to 20 percent of the goal) and the launch threshold (about 50 to 70 percent committed) are common rules of thumb. Test them against your own pipeline.",
  "Take the table to your board before any donor is asked."
 ],
 "checks": [],
 "next": [
  {
   "name": "Nonprofit strategy planner",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/nonprofit-strategy-cycle-planner",
   "why": "Plan your strategy"
  },
  {
   "name": "Nonprofit executive board report writer",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/nonprofit-executive-board-report-writer",
   "why": "Lead the team"
  },
  {
   "name": "Nonprofit change rollout planner",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/nonprofit-change-rollout-planner",
   "why": "Lead the team"
  }
 ],
 "source": {
  "by": "sector-skills",
  "repo": "sector-skills/nonprofit-skills",
  "url": "https://github.com/sector-skills/nonprofit-skills/tree/7d8a2ca9d471fc975d0e9ccd02fcdd66520fd1c8/nonprofit-skills-library/skills/fundraising-development/nonprofit-capital-campaigns",
  "licence": "MIT",
  "original_name": "nonprofit-capital-campaigns",
  "commit": "7d8a2ca9d471fc975d0e9ccd02fcdd66520fd1c8"
 },
 "credits": [
  {
   "title": "nonprofit-capital-campaigns skill",
   "by": "sector-skills",
   "url": "https://github.com/sector-skills/nonprofit-skills/tree/7d8a2ca9d471fc975d0e9ccd02fcdd66520fd1c8/nonprofit-skills-library/skills/fundraising-development/nonprofit-capital-campaigns",
   "used": "Original instructions and supporting files, with attribution and the MIT licence. Display copy describes the task."
  }
 ],
 "files": [
  "LICENSE"
 ],
 "links": {
  "page": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/nonprofit-capital-campaign-planner",
  "markdown": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/nonprofit-capital-campaign-planner.md",
  "json": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/nonprofit-capital-campaign-planner.json",
  "instructions": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/nonprofit-capital-campaign-planner/SKILL.md",
  "download": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/nonprofit-capital-campaign-planner.zip",
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  "api_document": "https://useaiblocks.com/api/v1/documents/skill/nonprofit-capital-campaign-planner",
  "mcp": "https://useaiblocks.com/mcp"
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