Applying for grants
Your Collective can apply for and receive grants from funders - just make sure to follow the right processes.
Applying for grants with Gift Collective as your fundholder can be a bit different than applying for grants on your own. We don't write your grant applications, but we do need to be involved in the process.
Applying for grants or signing a grant agreement without our prior authorisation is a violation of our Terms, and may result in your Collective being de-hosted.
Applying for a grant from a funder for your Collective is a four-step process:
Either through your own research, or through a tool like Fundsorter, identify the funder you wish to apply to.
Get in touch with your funder, before you apply, to check a couple of details:
Make sure they're happy to work with a fundholder or 'umbrella organisation'.
Ask them if they'd prefer the application to come directly from you (as the group doing the mahi), or if they'd want us to submit it on your behalf (as the legal entity).
Write your draft application, and send it to us for review before you apply, so we can make sure that you're representing the relationship between Gift Collective and your Collective correctly, and so we can credit the grant to your balance if it's approved. If your funder wants us to submit the application on your behalf, we'll do it at this point.
Keep us in the loop - let us know if you're successful, and if there's anything we need to sign.
Receiving grants
If your application is accepted, here's some things to note:
Let us know as soon as possible, as we will need to see and/or sign the funding agreement.
If your funder needs an invoice, do not create one yourself - let us know and we'll create one for you.
Tell your funder that remittance notices and payment notifications should be sent to [email protected] - if they send them to you directly, forward them to us.
We can't credit a grant to your Collective's balance unless we have proof from your funder that the grant payment is for your Collective.
Once we receive the funds, and can prove that the grant payment is for your Collective, we'll credit the funds to your Collective's balance.
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