Created Opportunity to leave Public Sector, Started Planning Business (TCATS), Job Application/PT Consultants, Asked to lobby QT, Brisbane Extra, ACA, Sunday Mail, Talk Back Radio/ABC.

1. Grants Writing Presentation
By Red Tape Busters

2. From Little things Bigger Things Grow
 Created Opportunity to leave Public Sector
 Started Planning Business (TCATS)
 Job Application/PT Consultants
 Asked to lobby QT
 Brisbane Extra
 ACA
 Sunday Mail
 Talk Back Radio/ABC

3.  Started as Lobbyists and writing Job Applications
 Moved into Grant Writing
 Then Business/Strategic Plans
 Now Organisational Development and
 Tenders
Evolving Services

4.  Lobbying – rezonings, resumptions, banks, telecommunications,
Government, Councils.
 Grants - $21.7 million for hospital project, $4.9 million for disability
accommodation, $1million in funding for agricultural peak body, $600k
for translation services, $470k for a respite service, $400k for museum
display, $340k for farming enterprise, $220k for abattoir
 Tenders - $13 million Woolworths tender, $6.4 million for construction
project.
Successes

5.  Strategic Direction
 Roles and Responsibilities
 Committee Composition
 Policies and Procedures
 Culture and Ethics
Secrets to a Successful Organisation

6. It is vital that the Committee sets the strategic direction of the
organisation!
Strategic Direction

7.  Does your organisation:-
 Have a strategic plan in place?
 Project Plans for significant projects?
 Yearly Operational Plans?
 Discuss progress at Committee meetings?
 Regularly revise plans and direction
 according to organisational needs
Strategic Direction

8.  Strategic/Business Plans should include the following as a
minimum:-
 Overview/History of Organisation
 Goals/Objectives/Projects for the next three to five years
 SWOT Analysis
 Market analysis/Demographic analysis
 Financial Information
 Supported by a yearly Operational Plan
Strategic/Business Plan

9.  For NFP’s it is vital to identify ALL projects that require funding over at
least the next 12 months.
 A project can be as simple as the need for a new computer or could be a
significant upgrade of facilities.
 A “project” to us is anything requiring funding.
Project Planning

10.  Be a professional Organisation
 Identify organisational goals
 Identify all possible grant opportunities
 Progress the best opportunities based on needs
 Write great submissions/responses
Secrets to Grant Writing
Note that the actual writing is last on the list of importance not first!

11.  It is important that you identify all possible grant opportunities that
relate to your organisation/project prior to considering preparing
responses. This requires extensive research.
Identifying Grant Opportunities

12.  Following your research it is VITAL that you now match your projects
to grant opportunities for NFP’s and your organisational requirements.
 This is a key to successful grant writing – applying to the right funding
program for the right project!
Matching Opportunities to Requirements

13.  Your focus should be to:-
 Match opportunities to best meet your organisational needs
 Prepare a Matrix – forward plan over next 6 months at least
Matching Projects to Programs

14.  Guidelines – read the guidelines, read the specifications, read them
repeatedly
 Audience – write to the audience
 No Acronyms
 Consider font, format, space/character/word limits
Writing the Response

15.  Know the organisation - research
 ‘Deconstruct’ the question/criteria
 Talk the talk – align language, individualise
 Clear & succinct
Writing the Response

16.  Reference to other documents
 Use dot point, figures, statistics to validate your case
 Draft, refine, draft, refine
 Write with passion but be fair dinkum
Writing the Response

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