Grants
How to secure a government grant (questions answered)
Australian Anthill Magazine Dec 2008/Jan 2009 As part of the Magazine 2.0 Experiment, we asked our readers to pose questions via our blog concerning the government grant process. Then, our grant guru, Adrian Spencer, did his best to answer them. Here are the results. Question from Carli Johnston: I want to start a business in [...]
Ask our expert about how to secure a government grant
Ever applied for a grant and been knocked back? Perhaps you don’t even know where to start? With many private investors now regarding new and existing investment opportunities with extra caution, governments are well positioned to play a more significant economic role in support of SMEs. Our grant specialist, Adrian Spencer, is standing by to [...]
Are you grant ready? The Money Tree
The Money Tree KA-CHING! What’s that sound, you may ask? Well, it’s the sound of money starting to flow. The 2008 Federal Budget demonstrated a major shift in focus, with a whole swag of new grant programs. While much has been made of the grants programs that closed, in this edition, we have spoken to [...]
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Why do people keep asking me to be reasonable?
It was George Bernard Shaw who gave us the maxim, ‘The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.’
As you know, we like to question common assumptions at Anthill, fight conventional wisdom, rally together to combat commercial stupidity.
Commercial Ready ‘Flash’ protest gathers steam
Thanks to everyone who emailed, posted comments on this blog and volunteered to participate in Anthill’s imminent ‘flash’ protest against the federal government’s axing of the Commercial Ready programmes. Your response was, quite simply, overwhelming. (Literally. It melted this blog for a few hours.) A clear and vocal majority of you obviously share our dismay [...]
Commercial Ready scrapped. Time for a ‘flash’ protest?
Have you ever heard of a ‘flash protest’? It’s similar to a ‘flash mob,’ where a group engages in seemingly spontaneous but actually synchronised behaviour. The concept has been attributed to Bill Wasik, an editor at Harper’s Magazine, initially as a kind of street performance. Popular examples of the ‘flash mob’ concept involve getting dozens [...]
Are you grant ready? Grant Writing
Grant Writing Grant writing is a specialist art. Writing from the heart or what you think an assessor wants to hear is not usually the best approach. Here are our top tips for preparing a great application. Know the rules Constructing a grant application is not like constructing IKEA furniture. You must read the guidelines [...]
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