Tips on writing grants

More Research on writing applications for grants.

I have been doing a little research about writing applications for grants for arts projects. Here is some advice that has been given by other people on youtube about the process.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEbgdS7Lsq4

Research the artists who’ve formally been given the grant you’re applying for

• If the grant seems to go to a specific type of person, who is not like you, then you might not want to waste your time applying for that grant.

Apply for local grants

• Smaller pool of applicants, so more chance of being picked.

Use any opportunity for feedback that you can get

• If you get rejected you can ask why
• Some people give feedback to first time applicants

Focus on your budget

• It’s about proving to them that you understand the numbers. Proving that you understand money.
• It’s about proving that you won’t be wasting the money they give you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXp7PVGslXw

Write clearly and concisely

• The people on juries are chosen in a way that creates objectivity, so you won’t be able to get it based on who you know. There are no art professors on juries.
• The only way to get it is to write a something compelling.
• The way to make it compelling is to talk clearly and concisely about what it is that you do.
• No big philosophy or art language about what your work is about, or what you are about. Speak clearly so that if you spoke about it to your grandmother, who knows nothing about art, she would be interested about what you’re saying.
• Write something that is interesting enough that everybody gets it.
• Don’t try to be something you’re not
• Explain what you are doing and why it excites you.
• Why your work it exciting for you to make.
• What’s fun about it?
• People on the jury want to feel your enthusiasm and excitement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEdFwEb1_cg