Case

Captação com Causa: AI assistants that help Campinas nonprofits with grant calls

How Captação com Causa, created by the FEAC Foundation with Instituto Phomenta, uses three CORRE.SOCIAL AI assistants to read grant calls, answer questions and suggest project ideas.

List of grant calls with filters by date, theme and locationSheet of the Cultura Viva call extracted by the AI, with funder, dates, amount, themes and target audienceEligibility requirements and required documents of a call, extracted by the AIQ&A screen: the AI answers that an association with 2 years of CNPJ cannot apply, citing item 7.1

The process

Captação com Causa was created by the FEAC Foundation to diversify the income of Campinas nonprofits, together with Instituto Phomenta. CORRE.SOCIAL developed the project in its R&D lab, which applies AI and research to the social sector. It runs on three AI assistants, each one a block of the flow:

  • Grant sheet: the AI extracts the key information from the call.
  • Q&A: answers questions about the call and knows how to say no.
  • Project ideas: suggests ideas made to measure for the organization.
  • Grant sheet extracted by AI
  • Q&A that knows how to say no
  • Project ideas made to measure

How it was without CORRE

Without a tool like this, each organization reads the whole call on its own to find out who can apply, which documents are required and how to structure the proposal. It is a manual process that does not scale, repeated for every new call.

How it works with CORRE

The organization starts from a list of calls, with filters by date, theme and location. Each call becomes a sheet extracted by the AI, like the one for the Cultura Viva call, with funder, dates, amount, themes and target audience, plus the eligibility requirements and the required documents. In the Q&A, the AI answers based on the call and knows how to say no: to an association with 2 years of CNPJ, it answers that it cannot apply, citing item 7.1. The AI writes the draft, and the organization's team reviews it.

"It [the writing robot] helped us improve the quality of our proposals and better understand how to structure a project."

Letícia · PROGEN, participating organization

By the numbers

ItemDetail
Created byFEAC Foundation · Phomenta
ProjectCaptação com Causa
GoalDiversify the income of Campinas nonprofits
Process typeR&D
How we workR&D lab
Blocks usedGrant sheet extracted by AI; Q&A that knows how to say no; Project ideas made to measure
SupportFEAC Foundation; Instituto Phomenta
Project on the webCaptação com Causa (opens in a new tab)

Support

  • FEAC Foundation
  • Instituto Phomenta

What we learned

  • Turn the call into a sheet. Funder, dates, amount, themes and target audience sit in one place, next to the requirements and the documents.
  • Filter before reading. The list by date, theme and location lets the organization read first what makes sense for it.
  • An AI that knows how to say no. By citing the item of the call, the Q&A shows where the answer came from, and the organization can check it.
  • Listen to those who used it. The words of PROGEN, a participating organization, are the feedback the project publishes.

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