SmartyGrants

Contact Us

We welcome your calls, emails, faxes and face-to-face meetings. You can contact us by:

Emailing Us:	service@smartygrants.com.au
Calling Us:	(03) 9320 6888 (Our phones are staffed 9am to 5pm, Melbourne time)
Faxing Us:	(03) 9326 6859
Mailing Us:	PO Box 354, North Melbourne VIC 3051
National HQ:	51 Stanley St, West Melbourne, VIC 3003

Who's behind SmartyGrants?

The system is being developed by Our Community through its best practice grants management division, the Australian Institute of Grants Management (AIGM).

Our Community is a world-leading social enterprise that provides advice, tools and training for Australia's 700,000 community groups and schools, and practical linkages between the community sector and the general public, business and government.

Our Community's national headquarters are based in Melbourne, employing over 30 staff supporting our membership base of over 55,000 groups and enterprises spanning all areas of the community sector as well as government, business and academia.

The Australian Institute of Grants Management is the best practice network for government and local government grants managers and grantmakers.

Through its ground-breaking Grants Management Quarterly (GMQ) publication, online resources available through a dedicated, dynamic website (www.grantsmanagement.com.au), an annual conference, and other training and peer support opportunities, the AIGM is working to help all Australian grantmakers review, improve and reform their grants programs, and keep abreast of what is happening within Australia and internationally.

The SmartyGrants development and innovations team is highly experienced in the grantmaking, grantseeking and technology arenas. We bring to the project a reputation for creating accessible, commonsense solutions to improve the interactions between community sector organisations and the government and corporate sectors, and the general public.

How was SmartyGrants designed?

Extensive consultation has taken place with respect to design and development including:

• Environmental scan and scoping of concept with key grantmakers' networks, and other channels
• Grantseeker feedback via Our Community's 55,000+ membership base
• Focus group analysis involving targeted grants officers
• Analysis of the annual Grants in Australia survey (more than 500 responses annually)
• Concept testing through the AIGM's Best Practice in Grants Management Conference (involving 150+ delegates from across Australia)
• Ongoing, long-term tracking of resources and best and next practices throughout Australia and world-wide through the AIGM's Grants Management Quarterly publication and website.

Denis Moriarty
Group Managing Director, Our Community

Denis Moriarty is the founder of Our Community and its Managing Director.

He has a strong background in executive management in both the public and private sectors. He was the former head of the Victorian Government's Information Service, Managing Director of Strategic Australia Pty Ltd, a boutique management consultancy, and former Commissioner and Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Victorian Tourism Commission.

Denis is a graduate of both the Vincent Fairfax Ethics in Leadership Awards and the Williamson Community Leadership program, and a member of several non-profit and private boards. He is a graduate of Harvard University's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program.

Kathy Richardson
Director of Knowledge Management

Kathy has close to a decade’s experience in overseeing grantmaking knowledge development and dissemination. This work has involved editorship of Grants Management Quarterly, Australia’s only cross-sector publication devoted to best and next practices in grantmaking, as well as development and ongoing enhancement of the AIGM’s online content, and oversight of a number of grantmaking tools and publications, including the AIGM’s Grantmaking Manifesto and Grantmaking Toolkit. With strong links with a number of grants networks across the country, Kathy also helps to oversee program development for the annual Best Practice in Grants Management Conference and a number of other peer-exchange events. A former journalist, Kathy oversees Our Community’s communications activities, including newsletters, books and web content.

Kate Caldecott
AIGM Executive Director

Kate is a member of the founding team of Our Community. She has held a variety of roles within the private and not-for-profit sector including Group Marketing Manager, RACV and General Manager, min (Emerge), an IT business support business. She has experience in working on both sides of the grants management process and has worked closely with grantmakers of all sizes and types across Australia. She has a Masters in Business Management (Monash) and was awarded a Vincent Fairfax Fellowship with the St James Ethics Centre in 2003.

Lily Fraser
Service and Administration Coordinator

Lily has experience working in arts management and has a passion for working in the not-for-profit sector. She honed her skill in data management, working for Australian Tapestry Workshop for a number of years, and doing volunteer work at organisations such as Snuff Puppets. She is a graduate from Dunedin Polytechnic School of Fine Arts, NZ (BFA)and is a practicing artist.

Simon Herd
Director of Grantmaking Reform and Innovation

Simon is working to spearhead a revolution in grantmaking across Australia. As well as overseeing the design of the SmartyGrants, Simon is the vice-President of The Myer Foundation and a director of both the Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network and The Cranlana Programme. Simon has a long-standing interest in philanthropy and the non-profit sector, having been involved with a number of philanthropic foundations and organisations connected to the sector for almost two decades. Simon helped launch Our Community in 2000-2001 before pursuing a law degree and working as a lawyer for a number of years. He is aldo a graduate of the Vincent Fairfax Fellowship - Ethics in Leadership programme

Charles Gutjahr
Director of Technology

Charles is an expert on web applications and user interface design, having spent over ten years working in software development and technology consulting. He brings expertise in Java EE, Spring, HTML, AJAX and more gained from working on some of the largest IT projects in Australia at Telstra and Accenture. His experience includes the full systems development life cycle for desktop, web and mobile applications. Charles has a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Information Systems from the University of Melbourne.

Ben Hooton
Developer Guru

Ben is a software developer with experience in both desktop and web applications. He has particular expertise in Java development with Spring, and has worked across the full software development lifecycle. Ben comes from a background in medical research, where he developed software to help evaluate the effectiveness of cancer treatment using radiotherapy. Ben holds qualifications in Psychology (University of Western Australia) and Computer Science (Curtin University).