Insights & Ideas.
Our team shares strategies and resources to elevate your project planning and grant writing.
Remote working for small teams
Deviating from our usual focus on content about planning projects and sourcing funding, the current challenges presented by COVID-19 have prompted me to take some time to reflect on our strategies for remote working for small teams. We are a small team that all work...
How Project Planning Can Help You Win Funding
This might sound boring and obvious, but investing in thorough project planning sets your organisation up for success when the time comes to apply for grants. Many organisations leap into project planning mode when a grant fund opens. Unfortunately, most of...
Embrace your leadership potential
Embrace the fact that you are a leader. We believe that everyone is a leader, each leading in their own unique way. Don’t be shy about it or discount your leadership potential. Leading is not necessarily tied to being a boss, sitting on a board, or acting in some...
Being Tender Ready
Let's talk quotes and tenders. If you're a service provider who regularly has the opportunity to respond to requests for quote and tenders, which describes your approach? Option A - Mad panic desperately pulling together all the information you need, often ending in a...
What’s the difference between community engagement and communication?
We often work with non-profit organisations and local governments on community engagement projects. Occasionally it raises an interesting question - what's the difference between community engagement and communication? Many smaller local governments team up their...
Using Structure to Streamline Your Project
So, you’ve applied for and secured funding for your project, hurrah! Hopefully this means you are clear on your project objectives, timeline, stakeholders and desired outcome. From here, the success of the project will rely on implementing effective structures to...
Evaluation Series: Method Selection
We're in the final post in our evaluation series where we'll focus on evaluation method selection (along with ideas on different methods to use). In our previous posts, we've covered the basics of project evaluation and how to plan for an evaluation process. Method...
Evaluation Series: Process Planning
In the first post in the series, we covered the basics of project evaluation, exploring what it is and why you'd want to undertake it, along with the principles underpinning authentic evaluation. Now, we'll look at effective evaluation process planning. Identify...
Evaluation Series: Project Evaluation Basics
Project evaluation is as complicated (or simple) as you want it to be. In this series, we'll walk you through the basics of project evaluation, advise how to plan for the process, and finally explore methods for evaluation and how to select the right options for your...
Being Grant Ready
If you're a not-for-profit, or really any organisation that might rely, even in part, on grants to get projects off the ground, they are probably a hot topic. Maybe even a source of constant frustration, depending on where you stand. I talk to lots of people about...