Grant Writing – Case Study 7

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Grant Writing Case Study 7
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Grant Writing Case Study 7
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Grant Writing Case Study 7

• This is Case Study 7 in our tranche of articles
  which give tips into the grant writing world and
  the skills and techniques used by our grant
  writers.
• In this article we will discuss the Bowen Golf
  Club and their need to irrigate some of their
  fairways.

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Grant Writing Case Study 7

• The club had installed a dam to capture and treat
  their sewerage effluent water and had installed
  an irrigation system to irrigate some of the
  course.
• The irrigation of some of the course had resulted
  in greener fairways where the irrigation system
  had been installed and this had resulted in far
  better playing conditions and more members
  joining and more competitions being played.
• A number of fairways however were not irrigated
  and with the Qld heat and the drought these
  fairways were in less than ideal condition.

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Grant Writing Case Study 7

• The club approached us for assistance and advice
  on the best strategy to pursue to have the extra
  fairways funded.
• The cost of the project was going to be around
  50k.
• The initial strategy of our grant writer was to
  identify which funding programs would be an ideal
  fit for the project and if we needed to split the
  project into smaller sub projects and pursue more
  than one funding opportunity.

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Grant Writing Case Study 7

• After assessing the available funding programs
  through the local Council and State and Federal
  Government as well as some corporate funding
  opportunities we were able to identify that the
  State Governments Sport and Rec Get Playing
  program was an ideal fit.
• The program focused on projects that increased
  participation in sport and our grant writer
  identified that the club had increased membership
  resulting from the past irrigation installation
  and therefore there was no doubt that irrigating
  the extra fairways would also result in increased
  participation rates.

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Grant Writing Case Study 7

• The only issue that our grant writer identified
  as a potential problem was that the club needed
  to contribute 20 of the project costs to be
  eligible for this grant.
• After discussions with the club the grant writer
  was able to be convinced that this contribution
  was affordable for the club.

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Grant Writing Case Study 7

• In undertaking the grant writing process our
  grant writer set about proving beyond doubt that
  this project would increase participation numbers
  in the sport.
• To this end the grant writer worked with the club
  in surveying members and potential members as
  well as encouraging the club to contact schools,
  other non profit entities, businesses, retirement
  villages etc to develop partnerships with these
  entities and as a result encourage their
  members/students to come and use the club, have a
  hit of golf and maybe even join the club as a
  member.

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Grant Writing Case Study 7

• We were able to get letters of support and
  commitments from these entities that they
  supported the clubs project and their
  members/students would use the improved
  facilities and together with the surveys we were
  able to prove that participation rates would soar
  if the currently dry fairways were irrigated.

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Grant Writing Case Study 7
By ensuring that our clients project would
achieve the outcomes of the funding program we
were able to present an impressive case. As a
result of our grant writing skills the club was
successful in winning this funding. Another great
achievement by the grant writing team at Red Tape
Busters.
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Grant Writing Case Study 7
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more information about this article or if you
require specialist grant or tender writing
experience to help your organisation or business
win grant funding or achieve successes with
tenders.
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