Here at Tsaks Grant Writing, our team of highly qualified grant writers and consultants are expects at identifying and pursuing opportunities for our clients in terms of their next arts grants. Arts grants are as the name implies, proposals for funding of our clients’ artistic endeavours ranging from the following below;

• Creation of new work
• Creative development
• Touring
• Festivals
• Productions
• Exhibitions
• Publishing
• Recording
• Marketing Development Activity

Arts in Australia for many inspiring artists is often underfunded, or not funded at all. This is a common occurrence however throughout the world and as such, our team are dedicated to helping artists get the funds necessary to make their dreams a reality.

We do so through the following means when it comes to grant applications;

 

Who Are You?

Grant providers want to essentially know who you are and what you represent. Artists are assumed to have a vision of some sort and here at grantwriting.net.au, our vision is to represent your vision in the best possible manner. We do this by emphasising your identity, your organisation’s history and the basic values you intend to represent in your next project that required funding. This is a basic introduction for grant providers to our clients however this sections sets the tone for the rest of the application and as such, we place a lot of importance on your first impression.

 

What Do You Do?

An extension from the first section of who you are, what you do is a natural question that is always asked. It is here that our clients can demonstrate their previous experience and what they have previously done in order to better quantify their application. Our team is best positioned to portray this prior experience, skills and education in a manner that portrays our client in the best possible light. But we do so without lying or compromising on their artistic integrity. Our artist clients can really make a difference here by focusing on how their history has led them to a certain point where grant funds can make all the difference between a project stuck on the drawing board to finally being able to make it a reality.

We encourage our clients to share all aspects of the following below so that we can help distinguish their grant application from the competition;

• Portfolio of works
• References from patrons/clients
• Awards

How Will You Do It?

It is here that our grant writers and consultants really demonstrate to the grant providers how their funds will best be used. We review and advise on our clients’ financial plans for the intended funds and whether their allocation is feasible and consistent with both the grant providers’ assumed intentions and our clients’ best interests. We also help to elaborate and refine the process required to get the arts project off the ground. In some ways, it may be straightforward for us to provide grant providers with responses based upon our clients’ previous efforts and how they can be expanded or increased in scale to provide a greater return (not necessarily financially) for the provider.

 

Win Themes

Win themes are a speciality of grantwriting.net.au and are existent throughout our entire clients’ applications. We apply these themes implicitly in each section, ensuring that every word and sentence crafted once again portrays our clients in the best possible light. Our goal here is to ensure that the final impression the grants providers will have of our clients is one based on reliability and capability. The aim of arts grants providers is to ensure that their funds are used in an appropriate manner that can allows for the greatest return or increased exposure of their works of the recipients.

Win themes can be further demonstrated through the following means;

• Punctuation/grammar
• References to the original criteria
• Establishing a connection between the grant provider and the arts grants themselves

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

Here at Tsaks Grant Writing, our team of skilled grant writers and consultants work closely with our clients on a numerous range of environment grants These grants are obviously concerned with how our clients’ initiatives as either an individual or through an organisation can affect the environment for the better.

See our list below for what constitutes an engaging grant application and how our team can take you to the next step in making your ideas and plans a reality;

Is Your Idea Relevant?

When we ask this question of our clients, most of the time, they will say ‘Yes’. Having a relevant initiative, one that can be closely tied to the grant’s purpose is essential. Grant assessors will be closely reviewing each application, trying to identify a central theme that is line with their own internal criteria and expectations.

There’s no point trying to provide an application or proposal that is centred on a new arts initiative when the theme of the grant in question is sports or environmental grants. While this is an obvious example of what not to do, our clients often come in to difficulty when the purpose of their project’s theme is under the same category as the grant itself but not specifically related. An example would be when a client is pursuing funding for an ocean wildlife preservation project yet the grant itself is being organised by an agricultural body. While both sides clearly fall under the sphere of government grants, the more relevant our client’s topic is, the more likely their application will be seriously considered.

Our team is adept at identifying and consulting with our clients on how best to relate their application to the grant provider’s requirements, whether such criteria is clearly set out or implied.

Address The Criteria

For all grant applications, our team will constantly prioritise answering all questions with the required information while simultaneously ensuring that our clients’ responses as a whole address all criteria.

Addressing the criteria itself can sometimes be forgotten. For environmental grants, many applicants can get carried away listlessly responding to the questions while forgetting what the bigger picture is. Our team at grantwriting.net.au will always keep our clients on track, ensuring that their responses address the criteria, either implicitly or explicitly. Environmental grants will mostly fixate on how we as an individual, an organisation, a community or as in the Australian people as a whole will either preserve, maintain or prevent environmental effects.

For the grant application itself however, we ensure that all the little details below are followed so that the criteria has been fulfilled;

• References to relevant grant provider’s background (Are you applying for a government or corporate grant? If corporate, have you used their products/services through your organisation or previous initiatives?)
• Appendices/Additional documents are included and made consistent with the main application form and responses

 

Something Extra

Whenever possible, our team will consult with our clients on any extra documents or provisions or offers that can be made to strengthen an application or proposal. Unlike a tender proposal, an environment grant application can only provide something extra within the scope of the funds being provided. As both our clients and we are not aware of what our competitors are offering in their proposal, we liaise closely and determine whether the initiative that needs to be funded can be extended in terms of its own scope, timeframe and even initial scale.

This part of our grant application process at grantwriting.net.au is important as it allows us to provide a value-added service that often forces our clients to think outside of the box in terms of what else could be done to go the distance. For grants that encourage applications that can be often similar, our team of writers and consultants advise on specific additions to our clients’ initiatives that can make all the difference between a failed application and being awarded the funds necessary for their project to become reality.

Grammar/Punctuation

No matter what environment grants are being written, our team at Tsaks Grant Writing always proofreads and edits our clients’ environment grant responses. We leave nothing to chance when it comes to the grant providers reviewing our applications and thus, we ensure all answers are written correctly with no spelling mistakes or misused grammar and punctuation.

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

Here at Tsaks Grant Writing, our team of professional grant writers consult closely with our clients, from all walks of life, to apply for those community grants.

Community grants encompass a whole range of grants from the following categories;

• Sport
• Arts
• Community Services
• Environment
• Multicultural projects
• Community Infrastructure

No matter what walk of life our clients come from, our team of grant writers can formulate appropriate and captivating responses to grant providers that distinguish our application from the rest.

We are able to secure grant funds through the following techniques;

Determine Your Requirements

All grants are different in terms of their scope, initial requirements, requirements for the funds themselves and most importantly, our clients’ intentions in using the money.

The first step for any grant proposal or application is to determine all the sections required for a complete grant response. While most of the instructions and criteria will be self-explanatory and stated as is throughout the documents, it is the general themes behind a grant that is most important to specify and tailor your response to.

Using the list of grants above, we provide examples of how to determine the real themes behind the requirements that if followed, lead to success;

• Sport (Is the grant focused on yourself as an individual sportsman, achieving your dreams, or is it instead focused on you providing facilities/training to the local community?)
• Arts (Is the grant focused on your own portfolio of work and how best you can promote yourself or instead, is it focused on you providing facilities/training to nearby aspiring artists?)
• Community Services (Are you intending to found a new organisation for community services or do you require funding for a pre-existing organisation?)
• Environment (Is your environmental initiative a concept that you wish to take to fruition or are you attempting to enhance the operations of an environmental initiative that already exists?)
• Multicultural projects (Is your project focused on a relationship between two (or more) minority groups within the community or does it encompass everyone as a whole?)
• Community Infrastructure (Do you intend to build or renovate new facilities or basic public infrastructure for the community at large?)

What Is Your Outline?

For certain community grants, the documents themselves will propose an outline with assigned questions for our clients to respond to.

However in some cases, you will need to structure your own grant proposal or application in respect to the criteria or assumptions provided.

For example;

• The initial part of the structure will be your introduction in which our grant writers will provide a biography or profile of your organisation and/or yourself.
• The middle part of the grant application is the body and will be where the majority of your relevant information here lies. Use this area primarily to describe your initiative in detail while always linking it back to the purpose of the grant itself and in addition, how the grant provider will benefit or rest assured that their funds are being used appropriately.
• For all financial requirements, grantwriting.net.au advises our clients to see their accountants or financial advisors on how best to provide estimates and figures for how and where exactly the grant funds will be used.
• The final part of the grant application will be comprised of a closing statement (persuading the grant provider in how effectively their money will be used) and appendices as required.

This basic structure will likely apply to all grant proposals/applications so our grant writers will be more than experienced enough to smoothly help our clients manage the structure of their application.

Why Are You More Deserving?

While community grants are funds, in the form of mostly money or pre-acquired equipment, with the expectation they are not to be returned and to be used for their advertised purpose, all applicants need to dig deep on why they are more deserving than all others.

Our grant writers consult closely with our clients on the nature and scope of not only their application but their initiative.

We assess the worth of our clients’ projects themselves through the following means;

• Size: Is the project a large one that will be noticeable in the community and involve the community as a whole to some degree?
• Scope: Is our client’s project directly in line with the grant provider’s requirements or criteria? While this may sound obvious, the closer the connection between our client and the grant provider’s cause, the better.
• Experience: Is our client experienced or hold renown in some capacity that is relevant to the project. To put it bluntly, prior experience in a particular field (and especially, success) will make the grant providers take our client’s application more seriously.
• Expectations: In line with experience, our clients must be able to convey realistic expectations on the effects of their initiative within the community. This is often derived from prior experience and skills gained.
• Planning: We assess the level of planning and preparation our clients have performed before we meet with them. Extensive planning and acknowledgement of dealing with alternative outcomes if the grant application falls through are a sign of future success regardless.

Through all of these methods, our grant writers at grantwriting.net.au help push our clients towards providing a winning community grants application or proposal that ultimately distinguishes itself from the competition.

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

 

Indigenous grants are excellent opportunities for starting a project or opportunity that often employs or benefits indigenous Australians for the better. At Tsaks Grant Writing, our grant writers sit down and consult with our clients on all aspects of their next grant application.

We ask the following questions relating to indigenous grants and how we can put together a memorable, persuasive and informative application to turn your next project in to reality;

Who Are You?

Many grant providers, such as government departments and private corporations, want to know as much about you as possible on paper before committing further to your project in person. The following basic information for your organisation and key personnel is usually asked;

• Organisation Name
• Key Personnel Name(s)
• Organisation Status (ABN/ACN/Charitable Status)
• Address
• Contact Details

Information required in this section is to be expected and should be provided without any particular difficulties. Indigenous grants generally ask for this type of information as a norm, as well as information which identifies you as an indigenous organisation.

What Do You Do?

This section of any grant is an opportunity to show what your organisation (or yourself) does in terms of activities or prior projects aimed at indigenous Australia;

• Are you focused on social work or mental health care?
• Do you provide volunteer building projects for indigenous Australians doing it tough?
• Are you focused on economic opportunities, generating both jobs and income?

This section is an opportunity to demonstrate your portfolio of projects and what your organisation is already doing to make a difference in indigenous communities.

Grant providers grow confident and take any application for their funds more seriously when the applicant is able to demonstrate prior experience, no matter how small, in the field. Indigenous related activities should also be assumed to be a plus when it comes to having your application seriously considered.

Why Do You Need The Grant?

Not all needs are equal and answering this question, however it may be stated, is important to distinguishing your application from the competition. This question itself should be a general theme of any grant response and should show how your desire for the grant funds is both feasible, reasonable and able to be executed effectively.

The most basic responses to this question usually stem from the following;

• There are little or no funds available to establish the project in question
• Strategic relationship with the grant provider (long term objective)
• Increased credibility for the project itself if a prominent organisation or company is funding it

As there are various needs for grant funds (or money for that matter!), Tsaks Grant Writing advises our clients to always focus on one or two major selling points for a project. These selling points need be memorable and showcase how they have the ability to change something in indigenous Australia for the better or at the very least, attract significant local (and national) media attention within the field.

How Will You Use The Grant?

This question differs from the ‘Why’ of the grant in how it focuses on demonstrating all the meticulous planning and procedures in order to make the project not only a reality but a success. Don’t be too surprised if grant providers skip straight to this part and closely review what has been written.

These are the basic components for adequately covering this question no matter how it is posed, explicitly or as a theme;

• Financial projections – Grant Providers will be impressed if they can see where exactly you intend their funds to be directed.
• Proposed procedures/plans – While these documents can be altered to reflect changing conditions for using the grant funds, having a basic plan on how to make your project effective will only be a benefit over the long run.
• Indigenous Australian involvement – An obvious point but sometimes forgotten. Having letters of support or even better, indigenous key personnel, only drives home the point that the grant funds will be used seriously to make a positive difference in such communities.

With these components, Our team here at Tsaks Grant Writing is confident that our clients’ applications will be seriously considered for any indigenous grant application.

Call our Director and Grant Writing Specialist now on 1300 556 201 for an initial discussion about your indigenous grants requirements.