Grants Management Intelligence The grants research edition
The secrets of success in an $80-billion industry By Matthew Schulz, journalist, Our Community
Ask anyone involved in Australia’s massive grants industry what they’d most like to know, and grantseekers and grantmakers alike will ask: “Who is winning all the grants, and why?” It’s the question at the heart of the latest Grants in Australia: The Secrets of Success 2018 research report – the biggest of our studies since the inception of the series in 2006. Data scientists Paola Oliva-Altamirano and Joost van der Linden, from Our Community’s Innovation Lab, spearheaded this year’s analysis of a record 2012 responses to examine what makes some grantseekers more successful than others. To help crack the secrets of grantseeking success, this year’s study benchmarks a series of grantmaking archetypes that we’ve dubbed “typical”, “winners”, “strugglers”, “high volume”, “big bucks” and the “supersuccessful 1%”. We also cross-check data across organisations to compare performance by size, sector and funding sources.
August 2018
This is an extract of the August 2018 edition of Grants Management Intelligence. To read this and more from our series, become a member of the AIGM now.
In this issue 2 Key findings from latest Grants in Australia research study 5 Great Barrier Reef grant not a gold-standard grant process 7 What a grantmaking fairy godmother should do 9 Grantmaking performance, the fundamentals 10 Digital civil society and the role of grantmakers, with Lucy Bernholz 14 Is there gender bias in grantmaking? 16 Grants with a handshake? Genevieve Timmons talks trust
And for the first time, we’ve produced a “sentiment analysis”, using the power of data to compare grantseeker compliments and criticisms about grantmakers and garner the gist of their views.
21 DSS begins $217m family and children program revamp
Finally, we reproduce the most telling of those compliments and criticisms from survey responses, completing a compelling picture of the sector. Turn the page to read our key findings, plus read our extended conversations with digital governance pioneer Lucy Bernolz and grantmaking leader Genevieve Timmons., and much more.
24 If nonprofits were brutally honest with funders, part II 27 Credits, contacts and back copies