Grant Writing - The Importance of being organised

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Grant Writing - The Importance of being organised
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Grant Writing - The Importance of being organised

• Time and time again our grant writers are
  reminded of the need for our clients to be
  organised in order to provide us with the best
  possible assistance during the grant writing
  process.
• We are highly successful grant writers as can be
  identified by both our successes and the client
  testimonials on our website and we have processes
  in place which ensure we prepare high quality
  documents but the number of clients who are
  simply unprepared to either write a grant
  submission if they were doing it themselves or in
  our case assist our Consultants during the grant
  writing process is amazing.

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Grant Writing - The Importance of being organised

• Obviously grant writing is a lot about the type
  of grant, your project, how much you seek, where
  you are located etc etc but preparing a grant
  submission successfully also relies to a degree
  on your ability to be organised and respond to
  the requirements of the grant and provide any
  supporting documents or information.

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Grant Writing - The Importance of being organised

• Following are a few of the issues that an
  experienced grant writer will need to have
  organised to support the submittal of a high
  quality grant submission-
• Referees
• A lot of grants required the applicant to provide
  the names and contact details of referees. It is
  important that grant writers think about what
  sorts of referees might hold sway or be more
  suited to each different type of grant.

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Grant Writing - The Importance of being organised

• Most organisations would use the same referees
  from grant to grant but this is a flawed strategy
  given each funding program has a different focus.
  
• Some funding programs you might want to use high
  powered referees who are well known in the
  community ie local, State or Federal Members of
  Parliament, leaders of peak bodies or other
  influential community members/Elders.

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Grant Writing - The Importance of being organised

• In other funding programs you might want to use
  family members of those who can validate the
  delivery of say disability support services, or
  say the users of a service, or your financial
  Accountant to validate your financial position
  etc.
• So you need to ponder long and hard on which type
  of referee might give your submission the best
  edge dont just use the same referees from
  grant submission to grant submission.

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Grant Writing - The Importance of being organised

• Budget
• This is an essential component of all grant
  submissions. As such it is really important that
  you have your budget prepared early and that you
  have sourced relevant pricing from suppliers to
  develop the budget.
• A poorly thought out budget can get you into a
  heap of trouble given you will be funded for the
  amounts and budget items you have identified in
  the submission.
• So if you make a mistake then it can be hard to
  get the approval changed to reflect the mistake
  and enable you to deliver your project.

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Grant Writing - The Importance of being organised

• Quotes
• Like the budget these can be very important. Some
  funding programs require you to attach quotes to
  the submission others dont but to give your
  submission more chances of success you need to
  source highly competitive and cost effective
  quotes.
• Gone are the days where funding programs will pay
  for over priced requests for goods, services or
  equipment so seek competitive prices to prove
  value for money in your project.

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Grant Writing - The Importance of being organised

• Supporting information
• Again the quality grant writer will ensure they
  have supporting information and data to validate
  their grant request.
• This can require extensive research so the
  earlier you start on this the better research
  you will find to support your case.

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Grant Writing - The Importance of being organised

• So yes it is really important to be organised and
  have all these issues in hand. A failure to have
  them in hand can significantly compromise your
  grant writing chances of success.
• The experienced grant writer will be across all
  of these well before they actually start writing
  the grant submission.

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Grant Writing - The Importance of being organised
Contact us at Red Tape Busters -
http//www.redtapebusters.com should you require
more information about this article or if you
require specialist grant or tender writing
experience to help your organisation or business
win grant funding or achieve successes with
tenders.
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Grant Writing - The Importance of being organised

• We are specialists in providing the following
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• Tender Writing
• Grant Writing
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• Organisational/Business Development.

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