Grant writing can be challenging even for the experienced grant writer. Every year thousands of grant opportunities open and close, resulting in millions and probably billions of dollars becoming available to non profit organisations and businesses across Australia.

1. Grant Writing – Advice and Tips
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2. Grant Writing – Advice and Tips

3. Grant Writing – Advice and Tips
 Grant writing can be challenging even for the experienced grant
writer.
 Every year thousands of grant opportunities open and close,
resulting in millions and probably billions of dollars becoming
available to non profit organisations and businesses across Australia.
 Competition for available grant money is immense and only the
best submissions are successful in winning funding.
 There are many hints and tricks that can help give you an improved
chance of success.

4. Grant Writing – Advice and Tips
Here Are Just a few:-
(1) Get your Local Politicians Onside:-
 This is a forgotten strategy that most non profit organisations or
businesses would rarely consider.
 But your local Councillor and local state and federal members of
parliament move in powerful circles and a word of support to the
right person could give your project an inside edge.

5. Grant Writing – Advice and Tips
 I always suggest that my clients engage with their local politicians
every say three months to update them on what the
organisation/business is up to, how you are travelling and what your
achievements are.
 Keeping them informed can help you in many different ways but it
certainly wont go against you when it comes to funding.
 Remember politicians love to get media attention and if your
project is in their electorate or their Council area and it wins funding
then there is the prospect of media coverage and the local politician
will jump at the chance to be involved.

6. Grant Writing – Advice and Tips
 Make them work for you and seek their support and actually ask
them if they can actively support your organisation/business by
having a word with key players.
 Also get them to agree to be a referee for your organisation and
project. Any support they can give you is better than none at all.
(2) Think laterally about your project or business concept:-
 If your project or business concept is the same as the organisation
or business down the road – the chances of you being successful in
winning funding obviously diminishes.

7. Grant Writing – Advice and Tips
 You need to think laterally and try and identify parts of your
project or concept that are different, ground breaking or unique; try
and incorporate ideas that target what I call marginalised
stakeholders; or incorporate aspects to your project or business
concept that might bring funding from alternate funding streams.
 For instance if your project can focus on some of the following
stakeholders or initiatives you might be able to access a variety of
different funding streams:-

8. Grant Writing – Advice and Tips
 arts/culture, sport/recreation, women, children, youth,
health/wellbeing, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, multicultural,
disadvantaged, disabilities, remote, rural, isolated, and homelessness.
 These are some of the main foci of Government agencies and
therefore there is funding generally available to support these
initiatives.
(3) Proper planning prevents poor results:-
 Most organisations fail to plan which essentially means they could
be planning to fail.

9. Grant Writing – Advice and Tips
 The more ground work you can do in the planning stage to develop
organisational/business goals and objectives the better chance you
will be seen as a professional organisation or business worth funding.
 We always encourage our clients to have a Strategic/Business Plan
in place which is supported by a yearly Operational Plan and Project
Plans for significant projects.
 As mentioned above your projects or business concepts need to be
well thought out, innovative and different to the run of the mill
humdrum that organisations and businesses generally offer.

10. Grant Writing – Advice and Tips
These are just a few tricks that might help those chasing funding.
Grant writing is not rocket science but it is also not easy. Grant
writers who implement strategies that improve the chances of success
while reducing the prospects of failure are the grant writers that are
worth their money and worth their weight in gold. At Red Tape
Busters we have a team of those highly skilled grant writers!

11. Grant Writing – Advice and Tips
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12. Grant Writing – Advice and Tips
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