Grant Writing – Case Study 7 (1)

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Grant Writing Case Study 7
By Red Tape Busters
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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.

• 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.

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Grant Writing Case Study 7

• A number of fairways however were not irrigated
  and with the Qld heat and the drought these
  fairways were in less than ideal condition.
• 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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• 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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• 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.
• In undertaking the grant writing process our
  grant writer set about proving beyond doubt that
  this project would increase participation numbers
  in the sport.

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Grant Writing Case Study 7

• 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.
• 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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• 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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