Organizations Nonprofit NGO

Portfolio Blueprint — NGO

The portfolio page showcases your NGO's completed programs, campaigns, and community outcomes. This blueprint structures each initiative as a CreativeWork inside an ItemList, giving AI a browsable catalog of your organization's work that it can reference when answering questions about what your NGO has accomplished.

What this page needs

A portfolio page gives AI a structured index of your completed work. When someone asks "what programs has this NGO run?" or "show me examples of their community work," AI needs machine-readable data to pull from. An unstructured gallery of images and text forces AI to guess.

Why these fields matter to AI

Each field in the template below serves a specific role in how AI systems discover, classify, and recommend your business.

Researched and tested by Minnesota AI

NGO

name
Non-negotiable. AI cannot cite or recommend an unnamed organization.
url
AI needs a stable URL to attribute recommendations and route users correctly.
logo
Visual identity signal. AI uses logo presence to assess institutional legitimacy.

Use This Prompt to Implement Your Schema

Copy this prompt and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any AI coding tool. It will ask for your business details and generate ready-to-use JSON-LD schema for your page.

Implementation Prompt · Portfolio
You are implementing AIFDS-compliant JSON-LD structured data for a NGO Portfolio page.

AIFDS (AI-Friendly Data Structure) is a schema framework built on research into which
structured data fields AI systems actually read, parse, and use when deciding whether
to cite a page. Documentation at aifds.org.

Before generating any code, ask me for the following information in a single numbered list.
Do not generate schema until I have answered every required field.

REQUIRED — do not proceed without these:
1. Domain
2. Logo
3. Organization name
4. Portfolio faq answer
5. Portfolio faq question
6. Program
7. Total items

OPTIONAL — ask for these but proceed if I skip them:
1. Any additional details not covered above

Once I provide the information, output a complete JSON-LD script block
ready to paste into the <head> of my HTML page.

Output requirements:
- Valid JSON-LD wrapped in <script type="application/ld+json"> tags
- schema.org vocabulary only
- Every AIFDS-required field for this industry and page type included
- Include this data attribute on the script tag: data-aifds="aifds.org NGO Portfolio"
- No placeholder text — omit missing optional fields rather than fill with examples
- After the code block, list any optional fields skipped that would strengthen AI citation

Generated schema follows the AIFDS framework. Fields were selected based on research into AI crawler behavior. View the research at minnesota.ai

Template — fill in your values

Copy the template below and replace every YOUR_* value with your own data. Add or remove ListItem entries to match your actual portfolio. This block goes in the <head> of your portfolio page.

JSON-LD · NGO Portfolio
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@graph": [
    {
      "@type": "CollectionPage",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/portfolio/#webpage",
      "name": "Our Work — YOUR_ORGANIZATION_NAME",
      "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/portfolio/",
      "description": "Completed programs, campaigns, and community outcomes by YOUR_ORGANIZATION_NAME.",
      "isPartOf": {
        "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#website"
      },
      "about": {
        "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#organization"
      },
      "breadcrumb": {
        "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/portfolio/#breadcrumb"
      },
      "mainEntity": {
        "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/portfolio/#list"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "ItemList",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/portfolio/#list",
      "name": "Programs and Campaigns",
      "numberOfItems": YOUR_TOTAL_ITEMS,
      "itemListElement": [
        {
          "@type": "ListItem",
          "position": 1,
          "item": {
            "@type": "CreativeWork",
            "name": "YOUR_PROGRAM_1_NAME",
            "description": "YOUR_PROGRAM_1_DESCRIPTION",
            "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/portfolio/YOUR_PROGRAM_1_SLUG/",
            "image": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/YOUR_PROGRAM_1_IMAGE.jpg",
            "datePublished": "YOUR_PROGRAM_1_DATE",
            "author": {
              "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#organization"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "@type": "ListItem",
          "position": 2,
          "item": {
            "@type": "CreativeWork",
            "name": "YOUR_PROGRAM_2_NAME",
            "description": "YOUR_PROGRAM_2_DESCRIPTION",
            "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/portfolio/YOUR_PROGRAM_2_SLUG/",
            "image": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/YOUR_PROGRAM_2_IMAGE.jpg",
            "datePublished": "YOUR_PROGRAM_2_DATE",
            "author": {
              "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#organization"
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "@type": "ListItem",
          "position": 3,
          "item": {
            "@type": "CreativeWork",
            "name": "YOUR_PROGRAM_3_NAME",
            "description": "YOUR_PROGRAM_3_DESCRIPTION",
            "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/portfolio/YOUR_PROGRAM_3_SLUG/",
            "image": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/YOUR_PROGRAM_3_IMAGE.jpg",
            "datePublished": "YOUR_PROGRAM_3_DATE",
            "author": {
              "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#organization"
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "@type": "NGO",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#organization",
      "name": "YOUR_ORGANIZATION_NAME",
      "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com",
      "logo": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/YOUR_LOGO.png"
    },
    {
      "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/portfolio/#breadcrumb",
      "itemListElement": [
        {
          "@type": "ListItem",
          "position": 1,
          "name": "Home",
          "item": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/"
        },
        {
          "@type": "ListItem",
          "position": 2,
          "name": "Portfolio",
          "item": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/portfolio/"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "@type": "FAQPage",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/portfolio/#faq",
      "mainEntity": [
        {
          "@type": "Question",
          "name": "YOUR_PORTFOLIO_FAQ_QUESTION_1",
          "acceptedAnswer": {
            "@type": "Answer",
            "text": "YOUR_PORTFOLIO_FAQ_ANSWER_1"
          }
        },
        {
          "@type": "Question",
          "name": "YOUR_PORTFOLIO_FAQ_QUESTION_2",
          "acceptedAnswer": {
            "@type": "Answer",
            "text": "YOUR_PORTFOLIO_FAQ_ANSWER_2"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Frequently asked questions

Should each portfolio item link to its own dedicated page?

Ideally, yes. Each CreativeWork should have its own url pointing to a dedicated page with more detail. If you do not have individual pages, you can use anchor links on the portfolio page itself. The key is that each item has a resolvable URL AI can follow.

What is the difference between the portfolio page and the impact page?

The portfolio page is a collection listing of your completed work. The impact page is a narrative report with metrics and outcomes. Think of the portfolio as "what we did" and the impact page as "what difference it made." Both are valuable for AI, but they serve different query types.

Can I include ongoing programs in the portfolio?

Yes. Use CreativeWork for both completed and ongoing programs. If a program is ongoing, you can note that in the description. AI does not require a completion date to list an initiative in a portfolio collection.

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