Every once in a while I get questions asking how our service for 3pts Co-op, Easy Money: Funding Made Simple for Creatives, works.
So I thought I’d take the opportunity to outline the process, benefits, and outcomes using a real-life example from our members.
With Easy Money, we research grants/prizes/awards/residencies that meet your qualifications or you can request something that’s already on your radar, which is what happened with our example today.
A few of our members expressed interest in applying for the annual Mineck Fellowship in Furniture Arts, which had a pretty quick turnaround and required some top-notch copywriting.
A key resource we utilized for this opportunity was our Easy Money template, which all members fill out as part of the service. It has all your contact info, business info, bio, and answers to common questions that pop up on grant applications.
The goal of this template is to reduce the amount of time, effort, and energy you have to spend on answering the same questions over and over. We don’t need to reinvent the wheel every time.
Plus, the more applications you apply for, the more we have to work off of for future applications (and the less input we’ll need from you).
With the Easy Money template, a lot of applications don’t need your input at all, only your initial approval.
With some more detailed applications, like Mineck, we hire a copywriter to come in and take your answers from good to amazing to ensure we’re giving you the best chance of success.
With Mineck, we handled all the annoying admin stuff for our members. This includes creating accounts just to view the application, filling out demographic info, inputting and resizing photos, renaming files based on the grant’s specifications, etc.
Not only did we hire a copywriter for our members, we also covered their $50 application fee!
Our experience applying for Mineck on behalf of our members highlights all the benefits of the service.
- We pay application fees up to $50.
- We act as your accountability partner.
- We vet, hire, manage and pay copywriters on your behalf.
- We coordinate and gather needed documents and assets.
- We meet deadlines quicker as a team than you can on your own.
- We find grants you didn’t know about (or ones you can’t stop thinking about).
- We perform annoying admin tasks such as creating accounts, resizing images, etc.
The goal of Easy Money is to help you get the funding you need to sustain your business, while relieving you of all the stress and time it takes to actually apply for things.
We want you to feel like you’re actively working towards getting funding for your business instead of saving grants for later saying, “I’ll get to that soon,” knowing you never will.
Send it to us instead.