{"id":224,"date":"2017-01-02T11:10:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T11:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/?p=224"},"modified":"2017-01-02T11:10:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T11:10:46","slug":"waiting-for-the-next-grant-cheque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for the next grant cheque?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/perforated_envelope_4862.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-226\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/perforated_envelope_4862-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"perforated_envelope_4862\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/perforated_envelope_4862-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/perforated_envelope_4862-70x70.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Those of us who have worked with charities for any length of time will know both the excitement of receiving the grant cheque envelope\u00a0 and the the fear of it either n0t arriving or not containing what you had hoped for.<\/p>\n<p>Many\u00a0 smaller organisations can feel like they are existing &#8216;hand to mouth&#8217; with future plans, or even survival, heavily dependent\u00a0on that envelope&#8217;s contents.\u00a0 Recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/voluntary-sector-network\/2016\/dec\/16\/local-charities-breaking-uncertain-future\" target=\"_blank\">research<\/a> has shown nearly half of all small charities are c0ncerned about their short to medium term future\u00a0 and there is little evidence that this will improve soon.<\/p>\n<p>So what can we do?<\/p>\n<p>Building a long term, broad-based\u00a0and robust funding strategy can be challenging, but is an essential part of growing a successful organisation.\u00a0 The adrenaline rush of opening that envelope, whatever news it contains, will probably always be part of the life of smaller charities, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/?page_id=8\" target=\"_blank\">contact me<\/a> if I can help to make sure it isn&#8217;t necessarily make or break time for your organisation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of us who have worked with charities for any length of time will know both the excitement of receiving the grant cheque envelope\u00a0 and the the fear of it either n0t arriving or not containing what you had hoped for. Many\u00a0 smaller organisations can feel like they are existing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charities","category-fundraising","category-organisational-development","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}