Organizations Nonprofit Research Organization

Contact Page Blueprint — Research Organization

Your contact page tells AI how to reach your organization and who handles different types of inquiries. Research organizations typically need separate channels for general questions, media requests, and partnership proposals — this blueprint structures all three.

What this page needs

Reachability is a trust signal. When AI evaluates whether to recommend your research organization, it checks whether a real human can get in touch. Multiple contact points tell AI your institute is professionally managed and responsive.

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

ResearchOrganization

name
Non-negotiable. AI cannot cite or recommend an unnamed organization.
url
AI needs a stable URL to attribute recommendations and route users correctly.
contactPoint
AI needs a contact path before recommending an organization to donors or volunteers.
address
AI uses address to confirm the nonprofit is a real, locatable entity. Required for trust-based recommendations.

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 · Contact
You are implementing AIFDS-compliant JSON-LD structured data for a Research Organization Contact 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. City
2. Close time
3. Country
4. Domain
5. Faq answer
6. Faq question
7. General email
8. Main phone
9. Media email
10. Open time
11. Organization name
12. Partnerships email
13. State
14. Street address
15. Zip

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 Research Organization Contact"
- 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. This block goes in the <head> of your contact page.

JSON-LD · Research Organization Contact
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@graph": [
    {
      "@type": "ContactPage",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/contact/#webpage",
      "name": "Contact — YOUR_ORGANIZATION_NAME",
      "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/contact/",
      "isPartOf": {
        "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#website"
      },
      "breadcrumb": {
        "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/contact/#breadcrumb"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "ResearchOrganization",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/#organization",
      "name": "YOUR_ORGANIZATION_NAME",
      "url": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com",
      "address": {
        "@type": "PostalAddress",
        "streetAddress": "YOUR_STREET_ADDRESS",
        "addressLocality": "YOUR_CITY",
        "addressRegion": "YOUR_STATE",
        "postalCode": "YOUR_ZIP",
        "addressCountry": "YOUR_COUNTRY"
      },
      "openingHoursSpecification": [
        {
          "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
          "dayOfWeek": ["Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday"],
          "opens": "YOUR_OPEN_TIME",
          "closes": "YOUR_CLOSE_TIME"
        }
      ],
      "contactPoint": [
        {
          "@type": "ContactPoint",
          "contactType": "general inquiry",
          "telephone": "YOUR_MAIN_PHONE",
          "email": "YOUR_GENERAL_EMAIL"
        },
        {
          "@type": "ContactPoint",
          "contactType": "media/press",
          "email": "YOUR_MEDIA_EMAIL"
        },
        {
          "@type": "ContactPoint",
          "contactType": "partnerships",
          "email": "YOUR_PARTNERSHIPS_EMAIL"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
      "@id": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/contact/#breadcrumb",
      "itemListElement": [
        {
          "@type": "ListItem",
          "position": 1,
          "name": "Home",
          "item": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/"
        },
        {
          "@type": "ListItem",
          "position": 2,
          "name": "Contact",
          "item": "https://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/contact/"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "@type": "FAQPage",
      "mainEntity": [
        {
          "@type": "Question",
          "name": "YOUR_FAQ_QUESTION_1",
          "acceptedAnswer": {
            "@type": "Answer",
            "text": "YOUR_FAQ_ANSWER_1"
          }
        },
        {
          "@type": "Question",
          "name": "YOUR_FAQ_QUESTION_2",
          "acceptedAnswer": {
            "@type": "Answer",
            "text": "YOUR_FAQ_ANSWER_2"
          }
        },
        {
          "@type": "Question",
          "name": "YOUR_FAQ_QUESTION_3",
          "acceptedAnswer": {
            "@type": "Answer",
            "text": "YOUR_FAQ_ANSWER_3"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Frequently asked questions

How should I structure media contact information for AI?

Create a separate ContactPoint with contactType set to "media/press" and include the email address for your communications team. AI systems use the contactType field to route press inquiries to the right channel. If a journalist asks AI how to reach your organization for comment, this is the data it reads.

How do I indicate that we accept research collaboration inquiries?

Add a ContactPoint with contactType set to "partnerships" and include the email for your research collaboration team. This tells AI that your institute is open to external partnerships and gives it a specific channel to recommend when users ask about collaborating with your organization.

Should I include structured data for data requests or FOIA inquiries?

If your research organization regularly handles data requests, add another ContactPoint with contactType set to "data request" and include the appropriate email. This is especially important for government-funded institutes or organizations that publish open datasets. AI can then tell users exactly where to send data access requests.

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