From Little things Bigger Things Grow

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Grants Writing Presentation
By Red Tape Busters
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From Little things Bigger Things Grow

• Created Opportunity to leave Public Sector
• Started Planning Business (TCATS)
• Job Application/PT Consultants
• Asked to lobby QT
• Brisbane Extra
• ACA
• Sunday Mail
• Talk Back Radio/ABC

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Evolving Services

• Started as Lobbyists and writing Job
  Applications
• Moved into Grant Writing
• Then Business/Strategic Plans
• Now Organisational Development and
• Tenders

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Successes

• Lobbying rezonings, resumptions, banks,
  telecommunications, Government, Councils.
• Grants - 21.7 million for hospital project,
  4.9 million for disability accommodation,
  1million in funding for agricultural peak body,
  600k for translation services, 470k for a
  respite service, 400k for museum display, 340k
  for farming enterprise, 220k for abattoir
• Tenders - 13 million Woolworths tender, 6.4
  million for construction project.

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Secrets to a Successful Organisation

• Strategic Direction
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Committee Composition
• Policies and Procedures
• Culture and Ethics

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Strategic Direction
It is vital that the Committee sets the
strategic direction of the organisation!
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Strategic Direction

• Does your organisation-
• Have a strategic plan in place?
• Project Plans for significant projects?
• Yearly Operational Plans?
• Discuss progress at Committee meetings?
• Regularly revise plans and direction
• according to organisational needs

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Strategic/Business Plan

• Strategic/Business Plans should include the
  following as a minimum-
• Overview/History of Organisation
• Goals/Objectives/Projects for the next three to
  five years
• SWOT Analysis
• Market analysis/Demographic analysis
• Financial Information
• Supported by a yearly Operational Plan

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Project Planning

• For NFPs it is vital to identify ALL projects
  that require funding over at least the next 12
  months.
• A project can be as simple as the need for a new
  computer or could be a significant upgrade of
  facilities.
• A project to us is anything requiring funding.

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Secrets to Grant Writing

• Be a professional Organisation
• Identify organisational goals
• Identify all possible grant opportunities
• Progress the best opportunities based on needs
• Write great submissions/responses

Note that the actual writing is last on the list
of importance not first!
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Identifying Grant Opportunities

• It is important that you identify all possible
  grant opportunities that relate to your
  organisation/project prior to considering
  preparing responses. This requires extensive
  research.

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Matching Opportunities to Requirements

• Following your research it is VITAL that you now
  match your projects to grant opportunities for
  NFPs and your organisational requirements.
• This is a key to successful grant writing
  applying to the right funding program for the
  right project!

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Matching Projects to Programs

• Your focus should be to-
• Match opportunities to best meet your
  organisational needs
• Prepare a Matrix forward plan over next 6
  months at least

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Writing the Response

• Guidelines read the guidelines, read the
  specifications, read them repeatedly
• Audience write to the audience
• No Acronyms
• Consider font, format, space/character/word
  limits

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Writing the Response

• Know the organisation - research
• Deconstruct the question/criteria
• Talk the talk align language, individualise
• Clear succinct

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Writing the Response

• Reference to other documents
• Use dot point, figures, statistics to validate
  your case
• Draft, refine, draft, refine
• Write with passion but be fair dinkum

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• Contact us at Red Tape Busters
• http//www.redtapebusters.com/ should you require
  more
• information about this article or if you require
  specialist
• grant, tender or job application writing
  experience. We can
• assist you to achieve your goals and objectives!

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Contact Us

• Red Tape Busters Pty Ltd.
• ABN 39 094 823 417
• PO Box 3126
• WARNER QLD 4500
• Telephone [phone]
• Facsimile 07 3882 2066
• Email Address admin_at_redtapebusters.com.au

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