Boosting Female Founders or Crushing Souls: A case for Humanising Grants
As one of the most hotly anticipated grants of the year, Round 2 of the Boosting Female Founders Initiatives
grant in March attracted thousands of applications from female driven start-ups across Australia.
With up to $480,000 on offer per applicant, this grant offered a rare opportunity for female founders to
overcome disadvantages to access finance and scale their start-ups into new domestic and global markets.
Why is this important – right now, today?
2021 BUDGET BREAKDOWN FOR NFPS - Funding allocations and community support.
There has possibly been no Budget announcement more anticipated than the 2021 Federal Budget handed down by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on Tuesday 11 May 2021.
Tabled in a time of immense uncertainty, but in a context of relative optimism as Australia’s economic rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic exceeded projections cast 12 months ago, tracking the funding injections across society was a hot priority for the Grant’d team.
While the Federal Budget by no means encompasses the full spectrum of government based support, it does give quite a strong indication of where current values lie and provides a forecast for where we want to head and how we plan to allocate resources to get there.
So how was this year’s budget received?
Well, that of course, depends on who you ask.
BURNOUT - AND HOW TO AVOID IT
There’s a strong correlation between inner wellbeing and the ability to drive transformative social change. Yet social entrepreneurs, particularly those working on politically or socially sensitive issues are at heightened risk of burnout due to workloads, anxiety and social pressure.
Behind the scenes, many agents of change across all organizational levels and in regions all over the world are struggling.
PERPETUAL IMPACT FUND 2021: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
The 26 October 2020 is a big day in the world of grants. Many grant writers will have woken up to a notification on their calendars marking the release of Perpetual Impact Funding’s 2021 round and will be hoping to put their best foot forward in their applications to secure funding through this renowned grant program.
So, what’s all the fuss about?
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5 Mistakes That Hurt Your Grant Application
Recently the Grant’d team took the time to reflect together on the hundreds of applications that have come across our desks in our various roles across the years. And although our experiences were vastly different, we’ve all agreed there are just five simple mistakes that often stand between an organisation and their capacity to successfully secure game changing funds.
And because we’re now on a mission to make sure that every change maker is capable of achieving exactly that, it’s time for us to share our knowledge with you.