Grant Writing – Case Study 3

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Grant Writing Case Study 3
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Grant Writing Case Study 3
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Grant Writing Case Study 3

• In our series of grant writing case studies
  this is the third installment. Again in this
  article will showcase the skills of our grant
  writers and give readers tips on how to improve
  their grant writing chances.
• We were approached in this instance by a club in
  a rural area affected by drought which was
  seeking funding to restump their community hall.
  The project was going to cost 50000 and the club
  needed assistance in finding appropriate funding
  programs which would fund a 50k project.

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Grant Writing Case Study 3

• At Red Tape Busters we are very strategic in our
  approach to the grant writing task. So initially
  we worked with the client on their project to
  identify if there was any way of breaking the
  project up into smaller components in case there
  were no 50k funding opportunities around given
  the higher the funding amount needed the less
  funding opportunities that exist.
• In working with the client we identified that
  there is not much scope to restump a hall in
  different stages given that the entire hall
  needed to be completely restumped at the same
  time given the extra costs of splitting the
  project and restumping part now and part later
  and also the fact that the hall was in fact
  dangerous with the stumps in the condition they
  were in and essentially unusable

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Grant Writing Case Study 3

• In pondering on the project our Grant Writer
  Melbourne identified the possibility of splitting
  the project in two stages the first stage being
  to dig the holes for the new stumps and remove
  the old stumps and prepare the hall to await the
  new stumps and the second stage of the project
  could encompass the purchase of the new stumps
  and the erection of the new stumps under the hall
  thus completing the project.
• As such we were able to split the project into
  two grant writing tasks the first stage needed
  a 15k funding grant and the second stage
  required 35k to complete.

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Grant Writing Case Study 3

• In order to identify what funding was currently
  available our Grant Writer Melbourne undertook
  extensive research to identify current available
  funding programs. Two prospects were available
  one through the local Council which related to
  community infrastructure projects with a maximum
  funding amount of 20k, the second prospect was
  available through the Department of Sport and Rec
  and given this was a sporting club this was an
  ideal program with a maximum of 50k available.
• We could have maybe applied for the entire 50k
  from the Department of Sport and Rec however our
  view is that the closer your project is to the
  maximum amount the less chance you have of
  success. So we decided to pitch two different
  submissions to the two different programs.

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Grant Writing Case Study 3

• While this was slightly more costly to our
  client given we were now preparing two
  submissions instead of one we were convinced
  that the prospects of grant writing success were
  substantially increased.
• Our Grant Writer Melbourne prepared the two
  applications which were both successful. The club
  was successful in receiving the full 50k all
  because our grant writer was highly skilled and
  understood fully the strategies involved in the
  grant writing process and in implementing a cost
  effective grant writing approach.

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Grant Writing Case Study 3

• We are specialists in providing the following
  services-
• Lobbying
• Tender Writing
• Grant Writing
• Resumes/Job Applications
• Organisational/Business Development.

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• Contact us at Red Tape Busters
• http//www.redtapebusters.com/ should you require
  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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