The grant readiness check you'll wish you'd done years ago
"Wait, who's approving spend against this?" - you, the week after the yes.
Get my free self-assessment →You're not missing out on bigger grants just because you "need a better grant writer" (thanks, LinkedIn).
A good grant writer helps, for the application. Bigger funders look past it: who approves spend, whether each grant is tracked separately, and whether you can carry months of costs while you wait on the next payment.
The Grant Readiness Self-Assessment starts where the application ends, so you find the gaps on your own timeline...and walk into the next big round ready.
Get my free self-assessment →What does "grant ready" actually mean?
Grant readiness is your organisation's capacity to receive, manage, report on and sustain funding once it lands. The Grant Readiness Self-Assessment checks it across five areas, each with the question funders are really asking:
- Financial: can you produce reliable financial information on demand?
- Operational: do you have the people to deliver what you're promising?
- Compliance: can you meet the conditions attached to the money, as well as the criteria to win it?
- Documentation: could you show how every dollar was spent, tonight, without digging?
- Leadership: does your board treat financial stewardship as part of the mission?
Plus ten yes-or-not-yet questions to answer with your leadership team, real requirements from international funds and Australian foundations, and a checklist for deciding whether to apply at all.
"The grant readiness one was very useful and I'm not ready. That's my conclusion... I think this sort of checklist approach is really helpful."Client, environmental sector
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The Grant Readiness Self-Assessment: the five areas funders check once the money lands, the ten questions to answer before you apply, and what to fix first. Free, useful, and not a single "I hope this finds you well" in it.
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