1. Blood, Sweat & Fears
Barry Smith

2. Outline Overview and challenges of current grantmaking environment
Reflections on grantmaking in Australia over 30 years
Design dimensions for contemporary grantmakers

3. What is grantmaking?
“A grant is money that allows you (as grant applicant) to do very specific things that usually meet very specific guidelines that are spelled out in painstaking detail (by the grant maker) and to which you must respond very clearly in your grant proposal”
(Karsh and Fox, 2003)

4. A changing nation needs a changed approach to grantmaking
Labour force
Family structures
Decreased engagement in social institutions
Technological changes
Philanthropic changes
Government
Aspirations and expectations

5. Renewed interest in community
Community capacity
Community strength
Community assets
Community partnerships
Community development

6. Phases of grantmaking in Australia
Tears - blood, sweat & tears
Fears - competition
Jeers - dependency
Seers - targeted, diverse, partnerships

7. Design dimensions for grantmakers
community of location v community of interest
universal v targeted
input-output v outcomes focus
purchaser-provider v participative-partnership
product-service v process-capacity building
established v emerging organisations
big business-like v small-local
integrated v differentiated

8. Design dimensions for grantmakers
consolidation v innovation
professional v volunteer
for profit v not-for-profit
recurrent v seeding
consortiums v sole agent
direct administration v third party administration
IT v paper-based administration
competitive tender v application/submission
objective v subjective assessment criteria

9. Designing sophisticated grant programs for today
Clear policy outcomes - based on analysis
Vertical equity - targeted - do less better
Different starting points - diverse responses
Process and product - both desirable and measurable
Complementing - not replacing or seconding existing and effective for-profit and not-for-profit responses