{"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?It'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.Kristy 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.This 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.IN THIS EPISODEKristy's background in social investment and philanthropy, and what brought her to 100 WomenWhy collective giving was a relatively new model in Australia when 100 Women started in 2013What grant makers actually look for in a strong proposalHow 100 Women balances risk and rigour when funding pilot projectsThe expression of interest process and what happens in that first review roomWhy 100 Women asks organisations for less paperwork upfront than most fundersHow volunteer expertise is matched to applications to get the best assessment outcomesWhat \"sustainability\" means in grant making, and why it matters for membersGUESTKristy 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.HOSTAlicia Curtis, Co-Founder, 100 Women. Co-founder of the organisation since 2013 and host of Community Kind.ABOUT 100 WOMEN100 Women is a national giving...","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}