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Years of grants writing and grants training experience and success across all areas of grants best practice.

How the For-Purpose sector in Aotearoa is working on reframing overhead 

Author Emma Redgrove

Published October 30, 2024

As Strategic Grants reflects on 15 years of funding best practice—with 10 of those years proudly and firmly rooted in Aotearoa New Zealand—we’ve been thinking a lot about just how … Continued

Our top Perpetual tips

Author Bianca Williams

Published October 28, 2024

Update – October 2025: If you’re preparing for the Perpetual 2026 IPAP round, we’ve published a new version with updated tips and a handy checklist to guide your application. Head … Continued

Latest sector news

Author Gayle Richardson

Published October 8, 2024

Looking for the latest sector news? Catch up on what’s happening across the world of funding, philanthropy, and research with the latest updates from Team SG’s busy research team.  The … Continued

What I learned from 100+ conversations with charities

Author Craig Hunter

Published October 2, 2024

Through these conversations, I have found that some themes are shared among all organisations.

15 learnings we’re sharing from 15 years of working with grant-seekers and funders

Author Jennifer Cowman

Published September 18, 2024

As we take a moment to pause and reflect, we’re sharing 15 learnings from our work in strengthening the charitable and philanthropic sectors through grants and partnerships best practice.

Exciting times for philanthropy in Australia 

Author Bianca Williams

Published September 10, 2024

Updated October 2024. A record year for charitable giving was reported by Australian Philanthropic Services (APS) in the last financial year, with APS clients collectively giving $200 million—a sizeable uplift … Continued

Latest sector news

Author Gayle Richardson

Published August 23, 2024

Looking for the latest sector news? Catch up on what’s happening across the world of funding, philanthropy, and research with the latest updates from Team SG’s busy research team. The … Continued

Shifting perspective, shifting practice – together we can achieve remarkable things 

Author Jo Garner

Published August 9, 2024

What happens when you get 1100+ people together at the 2024 Philanthropy Australia (PA) conference, who are passionate about finding solutions to the biggest issues our world faces?    Feelings of … Continued

Getting the grants gold

Author Jennifer Cowman

Published July 29, 2024

Anyone else have Olympic fever? While we are always ‘on our game’ when it comes to funding best practice, we thought we’d share our top tips for writing a gold … Continued

Due diligence is a two-way street

Author Lauren Vertigan

Published July 17, 2024

When we think of due diligence in fundraising and philanthropy, often the focus is on the donor conducting due diligence on the beneficiary organisation.  While it is important that for-purpose … Continued

Inspiring, challenging and evocative: The Social Impact Summit summarised in 3 words 

Author Bianca Williams

Published July 10, 2024

When a statement such as ‘let’s get comfortable with discussing the topics and issues that make us uncomfortable’ is the precursor to day one of the Social Impact Summit, you … Continued

Latest sector news

Author Gayle Richardson

Published July 8, 2024

Looking for the latest sector news? Catch up on what’s happening across the world of funding, philanthropy, and research with the latest updates from Team SG’s busy research team. The … Continued

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