{"id":"mkt-x-food-bank-newsletter-impact","track":"marketing","audience":"nonprofit","category":"writing-emails","technique":"grounding","title":"Write a donor newsletter section with verified numbers only","free":false,"task":"You're writing the \"Your impact this month\" section of the Oak Valley Literacy Project's donor newsletter. Keep it to 3 sentences at most, use only the verified numbers (not the estimates), protect privacy by naming no students or families, open with the words \"Thanks to you,\" and end with the exact line \"Join us at our volunteer open house on Saturday, Dec 6, 10am-noon.\" Plain text, no heading.","materialLabel":"Program report (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"OAK VALLEY LITERACY PROJECT - October program report (for newsletter)\n\nVERIFIED (from our sign-in sheets and tutor logs):\n- 126 kids tutored one-on-one in October\n- 1,840 tutoring hours logged by 73 volunteer tutors\n- 412 books given away at the Book Bus stops\n\nESTIMATES (do not publish, still being checked):\n- \"About 200 kids reached\" - includes kids who walked past the Book Bus; not a real count\n- \"Reading levels up 2 grades\" - from 3 teachers' impressions, no test data yet\n\nStory from a tutor (Mr. Patel): \"Jaylen, 8, read his first chapter book to his little sister last week.\"\n-> Privacy policy: never name children or families in donor materials. Stories are fine without names or ages.\n\nUpcoming:\n- Volunteer open house: Saturday, Dec 6, 10am-noon, Oak Valley Library community room\n- Winter book drive starts Dec 1\n\nFrom our ED: donors skim. Keep it short, warm, and concrete. No fundraising ask in this section; the ask is at the bottom of the email.","rules":[{"type":"maxSentences","max":3},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Not marking which numbers count","why":"The estimates are bigger and more exciting, so the AI uses 200 kids and 2 grade levels.","fix":"Add: \"Use only the verified numbers. Skip the estimates.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Forgetting the privacy policy","why":"The AI loves a named story and uses Jaylen, 8.","fix":"Add: \"Never name children or give ages.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Not saying how to end","why":"The AI ends with a donation ask or a generic thank-you.","fix":"Add: \"End by inviting readers to the Dec 6 open house. No donation ask.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Letting it run long","why":"Newsletter sections come back as 2 paragraphs with a bold heading.","fix":"Add: \"3 sentences at most, plain text, no heading.\"","checks":["maxSentences","plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Sets a sentence limit","patterns":["\\b(3|three)\\b.{0,10}sentence"]},{"label":"Uses only verified numbers","patterns":["verified","estimate","126"]},{"label":"Protects privacy","patterns":["privacy","no names","don't name","jaylen"]},{"label":"Sets the ending","patterns":["open house","dec(ember)? 6","end (with|by)"]},{"label":"Asks for plain text","patterns":["plain","no heading","no bold","no markdown"]}],"hint":"The report mixes real counts with hopeful guesses and a story that breaks your privacy rule. Tell the AI which numbers to trust, what to leave out, and how to end.","rubricLabels":["Opens with the words Thanks to you, and any numbers used are the verified ones (126 kids, 1,840 hours, 73 tutors, 412 books); it never says about 200 kids or that reading levels rose 2 grades","Names no child or family (no Jaylen) and gives no child's age; a story without names is fine","Ends with the line Join us at our volunteer open house on Saturday, Dec 6, 10am-noon. (minor punctuation differences are fine), and makes no donation ask"]}