Opinionated, evidence-based analysis on why grant programs succeed or fail before applications ever open. These papers argue that outcomes are determined by design decisions, not reporting systems, and that most of what passes for best practice in grantmaking is administration dressed up as strategy.
Written for policy teams, grant program managers, and senior decision-makers who need frameworks they can defend, not buzzwords they cannot.
The grant sector has built AI tools that assess applications. It should have built AI tools that improve decisions. Those are not the same thing. In grantmaking, those decisions determine who gets funded and who doesn’t. This white paper is about what happens when you stop optimising the application itself and start designing for the decisions behind it.
Why Outcomes Are Built, Not Measured A White Paper by Geoffrey Clow Founder & Principal Consultant, Expert Grant Program Advisory (EGA) The meeting that keeps
Why Australia’s Major Public Funders Should Co-Design the Infrastructure Layer of Grants Then Compete on Everything Else A White Paper by Geoffrey Clow | Founder
Understanding the Commonwealth Grants Rules and Principles 2024 What They Actually Mean for People Who Run Grant Programs A White Paper by Geoffrey Clow |
