Funding and Growth Strategy

Sustainable funding models, from grant and philanthropic strategy to earned revenue and growth planning.

We help you build a funding base that can carry your mission for the long term. That can mean sharpening your grant and philanthropic approach, testing new earned revenue or planning for growth with a clear eye on risk.

• A diversified, sustainable funding model
• Grant, philanthropic and partnership pipelines
• Business cases for new revenue and growth

Services

• Strategic Planning and Design: We turn your vision, purpose, values and goals into a clear, actionable organisational strategy your team owns.
• Strategy Implementation: We embed your strategy into everyday operations, align your team and keep momentum so the plan moves the dial.
• Funding and Growth Strategy: Sustainable funding models, from grant and philanthropic strategy to earned revenue and growth planning.
• Board Strategy and Facilitation: Board strategy days, governance conversations and board development, so directors lead with clarity.
• Co-Design and Facilitation: Workshops, strategy sessions and community engagement that bring the right voices into the room.
• Communication Strategy: Communication strategies that cut through the noise and reach the audiences that matter to you.
• Narrative and Messaging: Core narrative, positioning and key messages that capture your purpose and set you apart.
• Brand and Visual Design: From identity to collateral, design that is credible, distinctive and true to your purpose.
• Content and Communication Support: Ongoing copywriting, social media, content and campaign support that keeps your message consistent.
• Stakeholder and Partner Engagement: Pitch materials, partner presentations and engagement plans that win support from funders, government and community.
• Impact Framework Design: Outcomes, indicators and a clear theory of change, so you know what you are working towards.
• Impact Measurement and Evaluation: Quantitative and qualitative research that gives you an honest picture of what is working.
• Market Intelligence and Analysis: Market, demand and growth analysis that shows where need is rising and where you are best placed to respond.
• Interactive Dashboards and Evidence Maps: Custom, explorable dashboards that bring your data, evidence and gaps into one clear view for boards and teams.
• Data and Insights Strategy: Practical systems for collecting, managing and using data, so evidence informs every decision you make.

Case studies

• Monash University: Building resilient communities, and proving it
• Libraries ACT: A new chapter for Canberra's libraries, written with the community
• Bayside City Council: Shifting a whole organisation from outputs to impact
• Cancer Council South Australia: A clear strategy to carry a century of impact forward
• Afford Disability: Three years turning strategy into reality, with people with disability at the centre
• Fire to Flourish: Turning complex ideas into a story people can see
• NDIS providers: Finding where the NDIS opportunity really sits
• Bush Heritage Australia: A clearer digital story for some of the country’s most important landscapes
• Interact Australia: Proving the difference, in a way everyone can answer
• beyondblue: Rethinking workplace wellbeing, one leader's story at a time
• Indigenous Business Australia: An impact framework that helped secure $150 million for self-determination
• City of Greater Dandenong: A people-centred strategy, co-designed by the people who deliver it
• Snap Send Solve: One shared purpose, three pillars and a roadmap to take a homegrown app from local favourite to global platform.
• Cathy Freeman Foundation: A sharper story and a stronger funding base to close the education gap
• Philanthropy Australia: Turning a strategy about engagement into the way a team works
• Collaboration for Impact: Telling the story of systems change
• Orygen: A national youth mental health brand, launched on deadline
• MONA: A ticketing platform built for the arts, not the ferry
• Alannah & Madeline Foundation: Eight websites, one connected story
• The Reject Shop: Getting clear on why it exists and where it wins
• PrimeSafe Victoria: A board and executive, realigned around a clear strategy