Grantmaking Resources

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Take the Grants Health Check

Be guided through the nine-stage self-assessment
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Grants healthcheck3

Plan and Design
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Whitepaper: Unrestricted funding - why grantmakers need it

When you feel the need for speed, start your Outcomes Engine

Outcomes Engine has flow-on effects for the grants team at Wannon Water

Outcome Measurement Frameworks

Whitepaper: Risk management and the grantmaking lifecycle

Funding collaboratives

Grantmaking in a COVID-19 world

Funding innovative projects and organisations

Tips to increase resources for local government grantmakers

Engaging in strategic grantmaking

Building compliance from the beginning

Tips on collaborating with other grantmakers

Record Keeping
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Whitepaper: Risk management and the grantmaking lifecycle

Building compliance from the beginning

Benchmarking basics

The basics of program design

Grants mapping and community support

Grants manuals

Identify Outcomes Agents
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Whitepaper: Unrestricted funding - why grantmakers need it

At the crossroads: How to use grants to tackle climate change and equity

Measuring impact: How the Innovation Lab helps applicants deliver high-quality data

How to help your grantseekers find more money (and save you time) with the Funding Centre

Identifying outcomes agents: How to target grantseekers to reach your goals

The SmartyGrants Grantmaking Toolkit

Best practice for writing grants guidelines

10 tips on advertising your grants

Providing additional support for grantseekers

How to make sure you have a website you can be proud of

Two-stage applications

Table Hotspot: Improving applications

Assess and Decide
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Assessment: How to make good grants decisions

Help Sheet: Assessment Panels

Measuring impact: How the Innovation Lab helps applicants deliver high-quality data

Funding innovative projects and organisations

Weighing up risk on investments

Making your grants program accessible to individuals with a disability

Working out which applications warrant funding

Table Hotspot: Funding core and operational costs

Providing capital grants: a case study

Grantmaking by public vote

Funding Unincorporated Associations

Enabling innovation and risk-friendly grantmaking

Notify
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How to end a partnership amicably

Building compliance from the beginning

How to say "No" nicely

Capacity building

Agreements
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Scaling up after small trials

Making your grants program accessible to individuals with a disability

Unrestricted funding

Table Hotspot: Funding core and operational costs

Small grants

Scaling up a successful program

Right-sizing

Preventing grantseeker fraud

Matching grants to strengthen communities

GST on grants

Make sure you're reaching all members of your community with this range of help sheets.
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At the crossroads: How to use grants to tackle climate change and equity

Grantmaking in a COVID-19 world

Investing in women

Table Hotspot: Improving access for small and emerging grantseekers

Supporting indigenous Australians

Social inclusion

Rural and regional grantmaking

Funding multicultural groups

Funding financial incentives for environmental conservation

Environmental grantmaking

Empathetic grantmaking through grantee representation

Protecting the environment

Monitor
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Outcome Measurement Frameworks

Whitepaper: Risk management and the grantmaking lifecycle

How to prepare for when something goes wrong and how to respond when it does

Monitoring grants funding

Building compliance from the beginning

Benchmarking basics

Table Hotspot: Timelines

Table Hotspot: Providing high-quality support

Table Hotspot: Performance problems

Performance measurement

Grants mapping and community support

Close the Grant
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Table Hotspot: Providing high-quality support

Table Hotspot: Feedback

Table Hotspot: Clearer simpler forms

Standardised acquittals

Performance measurement

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How to turn grant data into meaningful reports using the Outcomes Engine

Just one in four “grantseeker outcomes” is an outcome, analysis reveals

Outcome Engines Myth Busting

How far does a $5000 grant go, and how much evaluation can we ask for in return?

Program evaluation from design to implementation

Independent evaluation

The seven principles of impact reporting

Establishing a strategy for evaluation

Evaluating the impact of your grants

Building compliance from the beginning

Benchmarking basics

Table Hotspot: Learning from failure

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