# Find the skills your nonprofit board is missing and who to ask

> It turns a list of board members into a skills grid that shows exactly which seat to fill next.

Describe your board members and next year's goals and get a skills grid that shows the gaps, the kinds of people who'd fill them, and a warm recruiting note for each.

- Page: https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/find-the-skills-your-board-is-missing/
- Category: Make smarter decisions
- Made for: Small business owners, Everyone
- Works in: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini
- Time: About 15 minutes
- Effort: Just copy and paste
- Note: Claude's Nonprofits plugin does this on Team and Enterprise nonprofit plans. The prompt works on any plan.
- Published: 2026-10-28

## How do I figure out what skills my nonprofit board needs?

Describe your current board members' backgrounds and next year's goals, and ask an AI to build a skills grid that marks the gaps. Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini can all do it from a plain prompt. As of October 2026, Claude's Nonprofits plugin adds this as a skill for nonprofits on Team and Enterprise plans. A small volunteer group can use the same prompt for a committee or PTA, and a larger board can add term end dates to plan who rotates off.

## The prompt

Fill in the parts in [square brackets], or leave them and the AI will ask you for them.

```text
I help lead a small nonprofit or volunteer board. Our mission: [OUR MISSION, e.g. free after-school tutoring]. Our goals for the next year: [NEXT YEAR'S GOALS, e.g. double donors, open a second site]. Our current board members (roles only): [CURRENT BOARD, e.g. retired teacher, CPA, pastor, parent]. Build a board skills grid: list the 8 to 10 skills a board like ours needs to reach these goals (think fundraising, finance, legal, marketing, community ties, lived experience), mark which members cover each one, and highlight the biggest gaps. For the top three gaps, describe the kind of person who'd fill it and where we might find them locally. Then write a short, warm note inviting that kind of person to coffee to learn about the board, with no pressure to commit. Finish with a one-page outline for a new member orientation packet.
```

## Step by step

1. Jot down each board member's role and background, without full names
2. Open Claude and paste the prompt with your notes and goals
3. Review the skills grid and the gaps it flags
4. Copy the recruiting note for your top gap and personalize it

## What you'll get

A board skills grid with the gaps marked, profiles of who'd fill the top three, a recruiting note and an orientation outline.

## Good to know

**How do I figure out what skills my nonprofit board needs?** Describe your current board members' backgrounds and next year's goals, and ask an AI to build a skills grid that marks the gaps. Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini can all do it from a plain prompt. As of October 2026, Claude's Nonprofits plugin adds this as a skill for nonprofits on Team and Enterprise plans. A small volunteer group can use the same prompt for a committee or PTA, and a larger board can add term end dates to plan who rotates off.

**Which AI tools does this work in?** It works in Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini. On this page, Claude and ChatGPT open with your prompt already typed in. Claude's Nonprofits plugin does this on Team and Enterprise nonprofit plans. The prompt works on any plan.

**How long does it take?** About 15 minutes. It's rated "Just copy and paste". There are 4 steps, listed above.

**What do I need before I start?** Just your details for 3 blanks: our mission, next year's goals and current board. You can skip any, and your AI will ask for them.

**What will I get back?** A board skills grid with the gaps marked, profiles of who'd fill the top three, a recruiting note and an orientation outline.

Idea spotted on the official docs, shared by Anthropic: https://claude.com/resources/articles/expanding-claude-for-nonprofits. The prompt is The Solo Creators' own version.

## Go further

Ready-made skills in the Solo Creators AI Studio (https://thesolocreators.com/studio/) that fit this: Board of Advisors (Convene seven AI advisors who debate your decision, vote, and hand back a stress-tested verdict); Fact Checker (Every quote, number, date, and link in your draft checked against its real source, with the fixes handed back as tracked changes you accept or reject).

From AI Use Cases and Prompts by The Solo Creators: https://thesolocreators.com/prompts/. Free to use; please link back to the page when you share it.