The Role of Evaluation in Social Change
I was lucky enough to attend the AES 2017 International Evaluation Conference this month in Canberra, and wanted to share some of my key learnings. Several threads ran throughout the … Continued
Do the Tender Tango
Author: Kate Sunners Like the tango is to the two-step, the tender is to the average grant-application. Tenders can be complex and time-consuming beasts requiring greater depth in … Continued
How to prepare your nonprofit for the trend of increasingly short grant opening periods
Author: Kate Sunners Our research team is noticing an increasing number of grant rounds that are only open for 3-week periods or which state an opening date, and … Continued
Top tips for engaging with Corporate Foundations
Author: Kate Sunners Ever wished you could get inside the head of a funder? Sinclair Taylor, the CEO of Westpac Foundation presented at the FIA QLD breakfast … Continued
Sugar, auspice and everything nice
Author: Kate Sunners Choose your auspice wisely! If you’re a small unincorporated organisation, you’ll sometimes need to ask an organisation with incorporated status or deductible gift recipient … Continued
Common Grant Application Mistakes and how to stop making them
There are a few common weaknesses when it comes to grant applications – is your organisation addressing them? Feedback from our discussions with funders and observations through our grants training … Continued
Collective Impact
Author: Kate Sunners One step up from collaboration, this new framework is uniting institutions towards common outcomes. So many social problems are multi-faceted, deep rooted, co-constitutive and complex, making themseem … Continued
Time management and de-stressing for grant-writers
Author: Kate Sunners We had a year of breaking our own records in 2016 – the number of Perpetual IMPACT applications we worked on with our nonprofit partners last year … Continued
Boolean Searching for Grants Research – It’s not string theory!
Author: Kate Sunners I’m just going to jump straight in and say it, I love online research. I love poking into the nooks and crannies of the internet … Continued
Why Grants aren’t a Silver Bullet – and long-term strategic thinking is best!
Author: Kate Sunners This one’s a must-read for small nonprofits just beginning to look at fundraising strategically. You’ve got your nonprofit set up, you’ve got some great programs in … Continued
Can we talk about Passive Writing?
Author: Kate Sunners Can we talk about Passive Writing? Can the Passive Writing be spoken about by us? HINT: READ THIS IF YOU’RE STRUGGLING WITH APPLICATION WORD COUNTS!!! So … Continued
Why you should stop reading this blog and go and record every detail about your grants history right now!
I know, I know, we have probably harped on at you a million times about why it’s so important to record your application data. Oh gosh, wait…Actually, we haven’t! We … Continued