Program workbooks, handbooks and brochures for nonprofits

“We can’t publish a made-up number.”

You’re right, and a funder will ask where it came from. The model has no knowledge of your outcomes, and it can write a plausible figure if you leave a gap. Put your own numbers in the brief or add your annual report as a source, and say that nothing else may be used. Then check each figure against your records, because the responsibility is yours whatever the draft says.

The same goes for stories. A participant’s story needs their consent, and it shouldn’t go through an AI tool with identifying details in it: text you add reaches the AI providers named in the privacy policy, which also tells you to leave out sensitive personal data. Use fictional examples, labeled as fictional, or add real stories yourself in the editor once you have permission and have thought about what they reveal.

“We have no design budget, and no time.”

This is where a typeset draft earns its place. A volunteer handbook already exists as a pile of Word documents, and I have a draft turns them into chapters word for word, free, split at their headings. Choose a look, add your logo, and you have something you can hand to a new volunteer. Importing, editing by hand and downloading files cost no credits, though a clean file without the watermark needs a paid plan. AI actions, such as drafting, a cover, pictures or a read-through, use credits and show their price before they run.

There’s no nonprofit pricing. You can cancel a plan once the work is done, and files you already made stay yours to download.

What stays with you: fundraising rules

If the book asks for money, treat it like any other appeal. The IRS notes that many states regulate charitable solicitation and generally require registration before you solicit their residents. A free guide that ends on a donation link, reachable from anywhere, can raise that question. Chapbook doesn’t add disclosures or check registrations. Ask whoever handles your compliance before you publish, and don’t treat anything on this page as legal advice.

For family programs

A children’s activity pack is a printable PDF of coloring pages and puzzles, and its sign-up form addresses a parent, guardian or teacher, never the child. The free word search and maze maker makes a single sheet for a library table without an account.

The sample on this page

The First Harvest is a two-week workbook on container gardening, written for someone who thinks they can’t do it, and it follows one fictional beginner who is plainly labeled as invented. That’s close to a program workbook for people new to something: patient, practical and honest about what two weeks can do. It was generated from one brief and exported without editing. For an event, see the World Book Day brochure.

What it does not do

Chapbook doesn’t take donations, manage volunteers, keep a donor database, write grant applications to a funder’s form or send email to anyone. It has no shared seats, so one person holds the account. It writes nonfiction only.