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Grant Writing Advice and Tips
By Red Tape Busters
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Grant Writing Advice and Tips
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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.

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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.

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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 certainly it certainly wont go
  against you when it comes to funding.
• Remember politicians love to get media attention
  and if your project in their electorate or their
  Council area wins funding then there is the
  prospect of media coverage and the local polly
  will jump at the chance to be involved.

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Grant Writing Advice and Tips

• Make them work for you and actively 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 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.

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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, 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 you can bring some of the
  following to the table when developing your
  project or business idea you will might be able
  to access a variety of different funding streams.

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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.

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Grant Writing Advice and Tips
These are just a few tricks that might help those
chasing funding. Grant writing is not rocket
science but nor is it 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
their weight in gold. At Red Tape Busters we have
a team of those very grant writers!
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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, have more
  avenues 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.

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Grant Writing Advice and Tips
Contact us at Red Tape Busters
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more information about this article or if you
require specialist grant, tender or job
application writing experience. We can assist you
to achieve your goals and objectives!
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Grant Writing Advice and Tips

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