Assessment: How to make good grants decisions
When it comes to effective grant assessments and decisions, preparation is the key.
Assess and Decide
Capacity building
Investing in building the capacity of community groups offers a host of benefits, including…
Deciding who to fund and frameworks to help you choose
Few - if any - grantmakers are experts in the multitude of project areas they are asked to fund.…
Enabling innovation and risk-friendly grantmaking
It is often assumed that in funding innovative or high-impact projects, grantmakers take a big risk…
Funding innovative projects and organisations
Funding innovation can involve pushing boundaries or funding the testing of ideas and theories. In…
Funding Unincorporated Associations
You may not want to give money to unincorporated associations. But, by permitting grants to some…
Grantmaking by public vote
Grantmakers have been experimenting with handing their decision making over to the general public…
Help Sheet: Assessment Panels
The Takeaway: Grant assessment panels can be made up of any combination of a variety of…
Making your grants program accessible to individuals with a disability
If you want to target the disadvantaged and the marginalised in your grantmaking, recognise that…
Measuring impact: How the Innovation Lab helps applicants deliver high-quality data
SmartyGrants users might already be familiar with the tools developed by the Our Community…
Providing capital grants: a case study
Capital grants are not popular with grantmakers, but one US grantmaker found that there was strong…
Table Hotspot: Funding core and operational costs
Attendees at the 2016 AIGM Grantmaking in Australia Conference participated in a lively series of…