Finding the Perfect Grant Writer

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• Conduct any Google search for Grant Writer
  Sydney (or Grant Writer Melbourne, Grant
  Writer Brisbane or Grant Writer anywhere,
  depending where you live) and you will be
  presented with pages and pages of search results
  containing a myriad of Grant Writers and grant
  writing services.
• So how do you sort the wheat from the chaff and
  find the perfect Grant Writer?
• Lets look at some key markers that can help you
  in your search.

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Experience with Grants

• Grant Writers with years of experience have an
  upper edge over newer grant writers because they
  have developed an innate understanding of the key
  focal points for grants offered across different
  bodies (federal government vs state vs council vs
  corporate, etc).
• On the other hand, newer Grant Writers can have a
  fresher approach to emerging trends and the
  available research to tie into those trends in
  order to support your application. The perfect
  Grant Writer in this case depends on the focus of
  your project and the appropriate fit for
  purpose.

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Industry Expertise

• Most Grant Writers have developed their expertise
  in one or a few industries, but never all
  industries.
• A Grant Writers expertise may be due to work
  experience via an employment history in the
  industry, or due to their familiarity developed
  over many rounds of funding focused on servicing
  clients from the specific industry.

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• The perfect Grant Writer would be the one that
  has both sides of this expertise, yet this is
  quite rare.
• A more likely and near to perfect option would be
  to find a Grant Writer who can tick either of
  these boxes, as well as having unfettered access
  to experts on the side that they lack.

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Lived Experiences

• There is an invaluable and unmeasurable quality
  to Grant Writers who have lived experiences via
  diversity throughout their lives in terms of
  financial challenges, work history, migration
  history and even their own personal history.
• The more diverse a Grant Writers lived
  experiences, then the better perspective they
  will bring to their grant writing activities, via
  their understanding of how all moving parts in
  our society have a ripple effect to other
  seemingly unrelated parts.

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• These Grant Writers present a wider view into
  community and societal benefits that can be
  achieved via funding projects which they put
  forward.
• It is these views that can make a particular
  grant application stand out in a sea of
  applications, thus improving the likelihood of
  grant writing success.

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Availability Capacity to Provide Timely Service

• Even though your search may have been for Grant
  Writer Sydney it is inevitable that some search
  results will show Grant Writers from offshore.
• Whilst this can be great for working with these
  grant writing parties on your grant application
  outside of your day-to-day business activities,
  it can also prove challenging in terms of solving
  real-time questions and issues as you may find
  yourself waiting until the next day if the Grant
  Writer lives in an opposite time-zone.

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• This can also limit your ability to keep your
  downtime dedicated to other quality of life
  activities, particularly as the grant closure
  dates loom closer.
• The perfect Grant Writer will match your
  expectations of the hours in which you can
  communicate as well as the timeliness in which
  they will respond.

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Communication Methods and Quality

• It is vital that a Grant Writer offers multiple
  means of communication, the very least of which
  must be phone and email.
• A Grant Writers written expression must be
  concise, professional and devoid of spelling and
  grammatical errors.
• Even more important is that Grant Writers must be
  interesting, articulate and persuasive to their
  reading audience.

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• The ability of the Grant Writer to put forward a
  compelling case in the most succinct and
  compelling way possible is a key factor that will
  impact the likelihood of success in grant
  approvals.

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Past Successes

• Grant Writers who can present a history of high
  success rates on their past grant writing
  endeavours are always in high demand and an
  obvious choice when looking for the ideal Grant
  Writer.
• Often though, these Grant Writers are in high
  demand and may not have capacity to give your
  project the required attention.

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• Sometimes, the perfect Grant Writer may be the
  person who has loads of capacity and, even though
  they do not have the strings in their bow, they
  do have access to support from a whole team of
  Grant Writers with many, many successes under
  their belts.

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The Human Touch

• One of the most under-rated qualities of a Grant
  Writer is their Human Touch. Interestingly,
  even though many Grant Writers study journalism
  in order to qualify as a good Grant Writer,
  some of the best Grant Writers are those who have
  capacity to walk in other shoes and portray that
  to their readers.
• This can have nothing to do with their tertiary
  experience, yet everything to do with who they
  are as a person and how much they care about
  others.

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• The qualities typically shown by these Grant
  Writers are that they are personable,
  approachable, empathetic to your cause,
  passionate about helping others and have an
  inherent understanding of the greater good that
  can be achieved via helping your organisation get
  funding.
• When this Grant Writers passion and conviction
  translate onto a grant application through every
  answer to the criteria, again it makes the
  application stand out from the many others
  seeking the same funding.

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The Tip of the Iceberg

• There is so much more that could be put forward
  as the qualities of a perfect Grant Writer,
  yet, in essence, there is no one single perfect
  Grant Writer that can win every grant
  application and meet every organisations needs.
• At the end of the day, it comes down to best fit
  for your current needs and the application at
  hand.

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• There can be immense value in engaging one of the
  many independent Grant Writers, yet you may find
  that you need to have more than one independent
  Grant Writer up your sleeve to cover the
  diversity of applications that you wish to apply
  for.

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• A viable alternative can be to engage an
  organisation that specialises in providing grant
  writing services.
• Red Tape Busters offer a team that collectively
  offer over 50 years of grant writing experience
  across the full scale of possible grants.
• Our team of over 10 consultants bring access to a
  wide breadth and depth of experience from real
  world non-profits, more than 30 industries across
  small and large business, governments and many
  professional backgrounds.

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• Many of our consultants have been successful
  professionals that have now set aside their
  original career and are now passionate about
  giving back through grant writing to help worthy
  organisations flourish and succeed with the
  support of grant funding.

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address each of these key markers in order to
delight our clients and maximise their chances of
success in seeking funding.
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