A common assumption is that organisations need vast lists of Funders to approach and this may be true with capital and other major appeals.
However, decades of grant-seeking and grant-giving experience confirm a simple piece of common sense: a long list of ineffective approaches keeps you busy but achieves little.
Your time is better spent on increasing your likelihood of success and of success at a higher grant level. So it is that, alongside the ACVO Funding Directory , we are sharing with you our Funding A-Z – tips, pointers, prompts, suggestions, challenges for you to use as you go about your work to make your organisation sustainable.
Each letter of the alphabet represents an area of the overall grant-seeking task which we will be pleased to follow up with you with further coaching, mentoring, information-giving, signposting and training if required.
For some of you there will be some new thinking, for others a useful reminder of what you have learnt before.
We recommend sharing the Alphabet within your wider organisation. While the focus here is on grant-seeking, there is relevance here for all kinds of Third Sector income generation and business development.