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Evolving Grantmaking in Australia: Insights and Strategies for the Modern Landscape

This document explores the challenges and transformations in the Australian grantmaking environment over the past 30 years. It examines the complexities of grant proposals, emphasizing the need for strategic, community-focused approaches. Key themes include societal changes, family structures, technological advancements, and shifts in philanthropic practices. The phases of grantmaking emphasize the interplay of competition, dependency, and collaboration. It advocates for clear policy outcomes, diverse responses, and integrated strategies to enhance community capacity and foster sustainable development.

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Evolving Grantmaking in Australia: Insights and Strategies for the Modern Landscape

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  1. Blood, Sweat & Fears Barry Smith

  2. Outline • Overview and challenges of current grantmaking environment • Reflections on grantmaking in Australia over 30 years • Design dimensions for contemporary grantmakers

  3. What is grantmaking? • “A grant is money that allows you (as grant applicant) to do very specific things that usually meet very specific guidelines that are spelled out in painstaking detail (by the grant maker) and to which you must respond very clearly in your grant proposal” (Karsh and Fox, 2003)

  4. A changing nation needs a changed approach to grantmaking • Labour force • Family structures • Decreased engagement in social institutions • Technological changes • Philanthropic changes • Government • Aspirations and expectations

  5. Renewed interest in community • Community capacity • Community strength • Community assets • Community partnerships • Community development

  6. Phases of grantmaking in Australia • Tears - blood, sweat & tears • Fears - competition • Jeers - dependency • Seers - targeted, diverse, partnerships

  7. community of location v community of interest universal v targeted input-output v outcomes focus purchaser-provider v participative-partnership product-service v process-capacity building established v emerging organisations big business-like v small-local integrated v differentiated Design dimensions for grantmakers

  8. consolidation v innovation professional v volunteer for profit v not-for-profit recurrent v seeding consortiums v sole agent direct administration v third party administration IT v paper-based administration competitive tender v application/submission objective v subjective assessment criteria Design dimensions for grantmakers

  9. Designing sophisticated grant programs for today • Clear policy outcomes - based on analysis • Vertical equity - targeted - do less better • Different starting points - diverse responses • Process and product - both desirable and measurable • Complementing - not replacing or seconding existing and effective for-profit and not-for-profit responses

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