The Irony of AI Agents and Philanthropy

Written By Joanna Drew

This week I went all in on Claude. I downloaded the desktop app, I upgraded to Claude Max, and I added the Claude extension to Chrome.

I put it the Claude extension to task on one of the things that grinds my gears about grants work: the copying and pasting proposal questions from portal to document. IYKYK.

So, I asked Claude Chrome to review a funder's website and extract the LOI requirements into a Google Doc.

It did it well, though pretty slowly (video is 2x speed), but it saved me a bit of frustration on a Friday morning.

I'm not sure this agentic capability is worth all of the tokens required, but it was certainly fun to sit back and watch a computer alien do grunt work for me.

The whole thing is kind of ironic, though, considering I have to send this LOI by snail mail to the funder. 🤣

Joanna Drew
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