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1.0 Designing an open grant-making programme
In designing a grant-making programme that works well for the community, decisions will need to be made on a number of things including its frequency....
1.1 Setting award sizes
In parallel with the setting of rounds, it can be very useful, from the perspective of both the decision-making group and applicants, to set minimum...
1.2 Promoting the funding opportunity and encouraging proposals or applications
Once the number of rounds and the key dates have been set, it is essential to get the word out to potential applicants that the Fund is open for busin...
1.3 Fund Materials and Guidance
It is good practice to provide as few documents as possible for applicants to navigate through, and to ensure these are clear and easy to understand; ...
2.0 Receiving and processing funding proposals
There is no one-size-fits-all approach with regard to how funding proposals or applications are dealt with once received. Practice varies depending on...
3.0 Decision-making criteria
Some key points for the decision making group to consider in establishing the merits of each funding proposal are outlined below. Proposals may be sco...
4.0 The decision making meeting
At the award making meeting, all members of the decision making group should be asked to declare any conflicts of interest in any of the funding propo...
5.0 Using conditions of award and feedback
Requesting an applicant to fulfil certain conditions is common in grant-making. However, it is important for the decision making group to be clear abo...
5.1 Feedback
In some cases, it may be appropriate, and helpful, for the applicant to be given some specific feedback, as opposed to placing a condition on the awar...
7.0 Making grant payments
Once a grant has been formally accepted and any pre-payment conditions have been fulfilled, payment can be made. It may be that smaller grants (say up...
6.0 Communicating award decisions
All applicants should be notified of the decision made on their funding proposal as soon as feasible, and ideally all applicants in the round should b...
Advisory Panel
An Advisory Panel is a group of people given the mandate to advise or recommend decisions on funding proposals and often on fund strategy too. Panel m...