{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Community Kind - A 100 Women Podcast","title":"Ep.2 (Part 1)The $1.69 Million Question: How We Decide Where the Money Goes | with Kristy Rodwell","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2090,"description":"Where does the money go?\nIt's the question every member asks, and the one that sits in the back of every potential member's mind. In this episode, Alicia Curtis sits down with Kristy Rodwell, 100 Women's Grants Chair, to pull back the curtain on how the grants process actually works.\nKristy is a professional grant maker by day at Lotterywest, one of Australia's largest grant making organisations. By night, she's the volunteer who designed every part of 100 Women's grants infrastructure from scratch. The guidelines, the assessment criteria, the application process, the acquittal process. Across 13 years, she has reviewed more than 1,500 grant applications.\nThis first episode of a two-part conversation covers who Kristy is, why she got involved with 100 Women in the very first year, and how the organisation built a grants process rigorous enough to be worthy of the trust members place in it.\nIN THIS EPISODE\nKristy's background in social investment and philanthropy, and what brought her to 100 Women\nWhy collective giving was a relatively new model in Australia when 100 Women started in 2013\nWhat grant makers actually look for in a strong proposal\nHow 100 Women balances risk and rigour when funding pilot projects\nThe expression of interest process and what happens in that first review room\nWhy 100 Women asks organisations for less paperwork upfront than most funders\nHow volunteer expertise is matched to applications to get the best assessment outcomes\nWhat \"sustainability\" means in grant making, and why it matters for members\nGUEST\nKristy Rodwell, Grants Chair, 100 Women. Senior Grants Development Officer at Lotterywest and holder of a Masters in Social Investment and Philanthropy. Kristy has been volunteering with 100 Women since the founding year and has shaped every part of the grants process the organisation uses today.\nHOST\nAlicia Curtis, Co-Founder, 100 Women. Co-founder of the organisation since 2013 and host of Community Kind.\nABOUT 100 WOMEN\n100 Women is a...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/2_SLQSsp9hNubdD3NaWU_qoHz5vQ2UIsjx3Ebmgz42k/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wNGFh/YmI1NzZiNDRmOTVi/ODRmZDEyZGE2NWIx/NWI2OS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}