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Grant Writing - The Importance of being organised
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Grant Writing - The Importance of being organised
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 – don’t just use the same referees from grant submission to grant submission.
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.
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 don’t 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.
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.
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.
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
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Grant Writing - The Importance of being organised
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Grant Writing - The Importance of being organised
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