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NGO Grant Application Agent

The agent drafts grant applications from your past reports and the funder's criteria.

Intermediate18h1–3 people18/20 fit
TL;DR

Build NGO Grant Application Agent for small ngos and community groups in ~18h with 1–3 people. Stack: RAG + LLM + MarkItDown + Next.js.

Why it wins: High social impact with solid RAG engineering.

Build flow

01 · Problem
Small NGOs miss funding because writing tailored applications takes weeks.
02 · Solution
Index past reports, parse the funder's call, map criteria to evidence and draft each section with citations to the NGO's own documents.
03 · Build
  1. 1Convert documents
  2. 2Extract funder criteria
  3. 3Retrieve evidence per criterion
  4. 4Draft sections
04 · Demo
Upload a sample call for proposals and show a drafted section with citations.

MVP checklist

  • Criteria extraction
  • Evidence mapping
  • Section drafts
  • Citations

Tech stack

TechRole
RAGRetrieval over your docs
LLMLanguage model
MarkItDownDocs to Markdown for LLMs
Next.jsFrontend + API routes

Reference repos

Open-source projects you can build on. Links checked 2026-10-31.

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