How to Get Grant Ready and Submit Competitive Grant Applications

Show Notes

Experienced Grants Consultant, Leslie Annear, and I sat down to talk about what it means to be grant ready and submit a competitive, not just eligible, grant application.

The conversation covers grant readiness documentation you need to get in place such as your:

• M&E Framework

• Project Rationale

• Letters of Support

• Detailed Budget

• Theory of Change.

We also cover broader topics like:

• The increasing sophistication of Australian funders, their funding application forms, and assessment processes

• The lost opportunity cost of missing grant deadlines and not submitting a competitive grant application

• How investing in grant readiness makes managing your grant easier

• What is startup funding? What does it fund? What doesn’t it fund?

• The difference in a funder’s expectations for small compared to larger grants

• How monitoring government policy can help predict future funding opportunities

• The thrown around idea that ‘you should get a grant for that’ and how it can lead to mission drift.

If you work in grants in any way, this 37 minutes of your life will be time well spent!

Links

You can find out more about Leslie Annear and get in touch with her on her website, Clarity Content.

If you would like to get involved in this Grants Uncovered Podcast and join the conversation, I would love to hear from you.