How to write a Grant Proposal?

Eligibility is important…

In order to learn how to write a Grant proposal, you must first review the eligibility criteria and ensure that your organization meets all the criteria outlined. Our expert grant writers recommend that you have an efficient internal management structure for this process as you will be gathering required information from varying sections of the business.

Don’t forget your win themes!

Win themes or otherwise known as a win strategy, involve a strategic process that is not always clear or apparent in the short term. Our professional team of writers is skilled at creating exquisite responses in a manner that perpetuates credibility and reliability to our clients’ submissions. This is in part, thanks to incorporating win themes into our grant writing in order to best demonstrate client’s capabilities.

Win themes can be explained simply as a means to demonstrate your ability to strategically execute your proposal. A grant writer can achieve this by increasing reliability and credibility of clients through both explicit and implicit means.

• Explicit: Refers to referencing to certain criteria and the additional benefits to grant providers.
• Implicit: References to background information and the utilization of a clear and concise writing style.

To a certain extent, the win themes and strategy is determined by a clients’ brand identity and how experienced they are before applying for a grant.

Answer the questions.

Why does your organization need the grant?

What will be the output of your organizations solution?

Answering these questions in your grant proposal will increase your business image and credibility. Additionally, answering these questions will set the framework in which you can develop a skeleton structure for your grant proposal. Understanding the nature of your proposal, the whys, the win themes as well as your businesses objective is crucial in applying for a grant.

Write the application using the same terminology found in the Grant

When writing the application it is important to utilize the same terminology as is found in the grant, this will ensure that you answer all key criteria and follow the proper structure and guidelines during the application.  It is important to note that you must prepare all associated budgets and additional information in detail before submitting the Grant.

Our grant writing experts have over 10 years of combined experience writing professional grants for a number of organizations. With a successful track record and experience of over 10 years, our writers provide a 24/7 service for all clients to ensure the highest level of quality is attained.

For more information on how to write a grant proposal or for our services call us now on 1300 556 201

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Writing grant applications with limited success? Here is our take on how to write grants.

Grants come in all shapes and sizes. From $10,000 dollar grants provided by local Councils to improve community facilities to multi-million dollar grants for medical research, most of us will come across a possible grant opportunity in our professional lives.

Let’s talk about how to write grant applications and how to win them.

Make sure you fit the criteria

A little bit of self-reflection goes a long way. You need to review the grant requirements and make sure your organisation size, status, and profile fit in with the grant requirements before beginning the grant applications process. Then you are good to go.

Be clear and concise

Your grant will be reviewed alongside many others. It’s critical to be clear and concise. Be clear about your purpose as an organisation, how you impact stakeholders and what you will deliver.

Demonstrate, demonstrate, demonstrate

When thinking of how to write grants, one critical point is effectively demonstrating what you are putting forward in your proposal. Think about case studies, quantitative evidence, and qualitative evidence. You need to go into detail, explaining real life practical examples of how your organisation benefits the stakeholder.

Don’t be shy

You may be hesitant to be seen to be blowing your own trumpet. Outlining your successes, experience and capability is a critical component of any grant application and springs to mind when we think of how to write grants. Talk about previous successful programs, what your key personnel has achieved and your organisations ability to deliver.

Finally, get down to the detail. Make sure you fill in the forms correctly, names, ABNs, insurances, and any budgets.

We are a team of four experienced grant writers working across Australia with significant expertise drafting grants. You can find us on www.grantwriting.net.au

The establishment and development of the NDIS have led to a wide range of grant opportunities for community and other organisations across Australia to apply for NDIS and NDIA Grants and funding. These generally come in the form of programs or grants such as the Partners in the Community Grants Program.

Take a partnering approach

The NDIA want you to partner with them. They want to you to adopt a collaborative approach, have a clear plan, but some flexibility and agility. This needs to be reflected in the language you use in your grant submission. You need to talk about how review processes will be completed in conjunction with NDIA stakeholders where applicable, and how you are going to work with the NDIA to make decisions about your program that have not been finalized yet in conjunction with them.

It’s all about taking a partnering approach.

Hit the hot buttons

This is basic, sometimes boring and absolutely critical. You need to demonstrate that you understand their programs and their language. One of the best methods for doing this is to integrate the language from the question and the briefing document into your responses. For example, there may be a heavy focus in the grant on ‘personal capability building’ or ‘community capacity building’. These are terms which you will need to integrate into your response. It’s best to be careful and use the language from each individual question. That way, you can be assured you are focused on the question, and you can be equally confident you are responding to the question and using the terminology the procurement panel is comfortable with.

Meet the criteria

If it’s 700 words, write between 650 and 700 words. If you don’t have the required registration, consider if it is worth applying or how to get the registration to make sure you comply. If the grant is targeted at small businesses and you are a large organisation, consider whether you are the type of organisation they are looking at awarding the grant to. You need to meet their criteria in order to be considered and rewarded for the grant, and if you do not meet all the criteria, consider which criteria you do not meet, why if it is mandatory or not and if it is worth spending the time on applying for the grant.

These are crucial tips for winning NDIS and NDIA Grants and should be taken into consideration when applying.

Tsaks Consulting is a global tenders, bids and grants writing consultancy, with offices in Australia operating under Tsaks grant Writing. We help clients apply for NDIS and NDIA Grants and provide Tips for winning NDIS and NDIA Grants. Email ask@grantwriting.net.au or call 1300 556 201 for further information.

Need some Grant writing help?

The experienced team at grantwriting.net.au can help. We will explain the intricate process of assessing community needs and resources. Both of which are crucial in the preliminary stages of grant writing to those who require grant writing help.

First let’s address the most basic question, what is a grant?

A grant is an amount of money given to an individual or agency to address a need or problem in the community. Therefore it is imperative to properly assess community needs and resources in order to be successful in your grant proposal.

To do this successfully and to ensure you no longer require grant writing help there are a number of factors to take into consideration. First, you must describe the community in your proposal in order to provide a context in which you will outline the problems and concerns faced by its members. This can be done by:

• Commenting on the varying types of information in order to best describe the community, such as the demographics, history, political history, civic participation, key leaders, assets and geographic information.
• Describing the sources from which this information was gathered, such as the internet, maps, newspapers, library, public records etc. It is important to note whether there are sufficient resources available in your organization to collect this information.
• Assess the level of accuracy in the information gathered and describe the concerns and strengths you found in the community.

After a thorough evaluation of the community, it is a good idea to then describe the issues that those in the community care about, such as health, education, and housing. Then explore how important these issues are in your grant proposal and the methods that you will use to listen to them, and assist them.

Essentially if you want your grant proposal to be a success you need to develop a plan for identifying local needs and resources in the community. Yet many organizations lack the planning required when it comes to community assessment during a Grant proposal.

Tsaks Grant Writing has experience and expertise across a range of industries. We provide a start to finish service that covers grant identification, writing and editing. Our service extends to any additional plans required for the tender, such as business plans, marketing plans and budgets. Our consultants will draw on our extensive collective experience drafting grants for organisations across a range of different industries.

Call the Tsaks Grant writing team at any time for your next tender.

Are you in need of professional writers and consultants for your next sports grants? Here at grantwriting.net.au, we recognise that the institution of sport is an essential part of Australia’s identity and that sports, in comparison to other countries, is widely valued. As such, our team of qualified grant writers is ready and willing to help both our clients and yourself for your next sports grants.

Here is how we do it.

Win Themes

Win themes, or a comprehensive win strategy, are a process that sometimes is not immediately apparent. Our team is skilled at crafting responses in a way that lends reliability and credibility to our clients’ submissions. We apply them to all grant applications that we are tasked to write, both implicitly and explicitly;

• Implicitly (References to background information, clear and concise writing style)
• Explicitly (Specific references to criteria and additional benefits to grant providers)

Win themes, or strategy, are also determined by our clients’ identity and how experienced they are before applying for a grant. The more experienced, the more that our teams can better convey ourselves to the grant provider, ensuring a more substantive over stylistic approach.

Furthermore, from our previous sports grants applications, our team at grantwriting.net.au are able to pick the best parts from other applications and reword and formulate them specifically for a current win theme.

Additional Documents

Sometimes, the main grant application is not enough. Here are a list of the additional documents that are often asked for by any sports grants provider;

• Gantt Chart/Timeline (How long will your project take from beginning to completion? If your project has already started, how long until it will increased in scale via the grant funds provided)
• CVs (Please provide relevant CVs for key personnel only. Grant providers will be more than encouraged if they are able to review CVs that openly demonstrate a relevant, extensive work history in a sport related field.)
• Quality Certifications (Although unlikely due to the nature of sport businesses, quality certifications can immediately distinguish your sports grants from the competition.)
• Reference Letters (Considering that you will be responding to a grant for required funds, providing additional reference letters for your existing organisation or yourself lends credibility and professional respect to your sports grants application.)

Love For Sport

In the sports industry, we strongly believe that those who succeed in acquiring sports grants and the funds involved are more passionate than most. We always recommend to our clients how much they genuinely love and are dedicated to the grant’s most related sport in question. We tie themes of teamwork, striving for one’s goals, individual hard work and healthy lifestyles (and attitudes) to our clients’ corresponding project that needs to be established or expanded. In doing so, the grant provider will feel confident that their funds are being used effectively and in the most visible and appropriate way possible. Our team at grantwriting.net.au are experts in transferring this joy and passion for our clients’ sport to words on paper, ensuring that such enjoyment will make an impression on anyone who reads our grant application.

Proofreading/Editing

We never forget the basics when it comes to sports grants. In terms of proofreading and editing, our skilled grant writers at grantwriting.net.au are more than able to make sure that the words you use are both appropriately and applied correctly in terms of grammar and punctuation. When it comes to commas and full stops, we never forget how these small (but important) parts of any paragraph make all the difference between an easily readable application and an application that no one would want to read.

Call our Sports Grants Writing Specialist now on 1300 556 201 for an initial discussion about your arts grants requirements.