2. Should you pay for a grant writer?
07/14/14
The art of grant writing is really an overlooked skill.
Many people think they can be a grant writer just by
picking up a pen or these days in using a keyboard.
 Essentially if your organisation or business wants to
lodge grant submissions either you have to have the
skills in-house, you have to pay for a grant writer on a
casual basis, you have to hire a full time or a regular
grant writer or find a grant writer who will undertake
the work for free.

3. Developing in-house skills
 Grant writing is an easy skill to pick up. It is just a matter
of filling out a form and writing a story about your project
– right?
 Effective grant writing requires a strategic approach, you
need to be able to identify available opportunities for
starters, you then have develop your project concepts to
make them more “fundable”.
 There are a myriad of other issues to consider such as
organising referees, developing budgets, coordinating
partners etc .
 So if you decide to develop the skills in-house you really
need to identify someone with great research and
wordsmithing skills.

4. 07/14/14
 It will take a novice grant writer at least 6
months to get yup to speed.
 So as you can see this is not an easy or cheap
process.
 Good grant writers are in great demand so you
could train someone up and have them poached
by another organisation to start the process all
over again.

5. Hiring a Casual Grant Writer/Grant Writing
Consultant
07/14/14
The casual grant writer might be a viable solution.
However you need to find a highly skilled grant writer willing
to work on a casual basis. Also you need to consider their
availability.
You might have a pressing need for a submission to be
prepared but your grant writer might be working for
someone else and not be available. Such is the nature of a
casual/consultant.
Also a casual grant writer/consultant will also charge a
dearer hourly rate generally or cost you more that someone
you engage who has regular work.

6. Hiring a Full time/Regular Grant
Writer/Grant Writing Consultant
07/14/14
A regular/permanent grant writer/grant writing
consultant really is only really a viable option for larger
organizations of if you have many projects that require
funding.
You can either find someone and employ them on salary
or you can find a grant writing company and engage the
services of a grant writer on a more regular basis under a
retainer arrangement.
Engaging a grant writing company such as Red Tape
Busters ensures you have a grant writer at your disposal as
and when you need them.

7. 07/14/14
Engaging someone like us on a retainer basis ensures
you will always have a quality consultant available and we
can do everything from developing your projects, to
finding grant opportunities, to matching grants to
projects, to writing the submissions and everything that
goes with that process, to assisting you acquit the funding
opportunities.
Essentially hiring a company to provide grant writing
services means you only pay for the consultants when
they are working for you – there is no down time, no lost
time, no sick leave or holidays – you only pay for
productive time.

8. Free Grant Writer
07/14/14
Now I am not aware of any free grant writers out there. I
have heard some offer a non win no fee service but those
grant writers will be starving and out of business in a few
weeks or months.
 The sad reality of grant writing is that you can be the best
organisation, with the best project with the best submission
and still not receive funding so working on a no win no fee
basis is a flawed strategy in the grant writing world.
Free grant writers might be out there offering a pro bono
service but again I haven’t heard of them. If good grant
writers were out there and were free gee they would be
busy!

9. 07/14/14
Each organisation however is different with different
needs but where organisations think that developing the
skills an in-house is the cheapest and best way of
winning grants – seriously I suggest they should think
again.
Contact us at Red Tape Busters -
http://www.redtapebusters.com/ should you require
specialist grant or tender writing experience to help your
organisation or business win grant funding or achieve
successes with tenders.

10. Contact Us
Red Tape Busters Pty Ltd.
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PO Box 3126
WARNER QLD 4500
Telephone: 07 3882 2055
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