Characteristics, strengths & weaknesses - Grants
Grants are provided by many government organisations to encourage community involvement in issues of social and environmental concern. Grants provide financial resources which enable many communities to undertake significant projects in their local area. They provide local communities that have well developed networks, motivation and strong ownership of local issues, with the essential financial resources to translate their concerns and interests into action. There are a number of educational grants programs that fund community groups.
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Strengths
- support individuals and groups who have ownership and commitment
- enable goodwill to be translated into action
- encourage new ideas
- enable innovative projects to be tried and tested
- support the conduct of local projects on a needs basis.
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Weaknesses
- grants require a system of administration to ensure that recipients understand and adhere to the conditions and accountabilities
- recipients may need some guidance in obtaining skills to improve the effectiveness of their approaches.
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Page last updated: 27 February 2011
