General Grant Application-Licensed Station Form G.1

Grant Application / Form C.1
Online and Resource Development Grants

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1. Station call sign: / 3XXX
2. Name of applicant organisation: / Xtreme Community Broadcasters
3. Tick which kind of organisation you are: / long term licensed community radio station
station with a temporary licence (TCBL)
Remote Indigenous Media Organisation (RIMO)
community broadcasting association
4. What is your Australian Business Number (ABN)? / 49008590403
5. Is your organisation GST registered? Yes No
6. Postal address: / PO Box 1354, Collingwood
State: VIC / Postcode: 3066
7. Contact person: / Jon Doe
8. Position: / Station Manager
9. Phone number: 03 9419 8055 / Fax number: 03 9419 8352
10.Email address of contact person:
So we can email acknowledgement
of receipt of application /
11. How much are you applying for? / $10,000

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CBOnline Grant ApplicationForm C.1

12. Application Checklist

Please tick the boxes to check your supporting material. You must provide all the required material for your application to be considered.

Grant information
(check that forms are fully complete)
send one copy each of:
This Form C.1x 1
Quotes from suppliers (if relevant)x 1
Other supporting documentsx 1 / Applicant information
(you must include ONE copy each if not sent
previously)
Any overdue grant reports from
previous CBF grantsx 1
Most recent Annual Report with audited
annual financial statementsx 1
Organisation’s budget for 2010/11x 1
Certificate of Incorporationx 1

In completing the following sections you may attach additional information not exceeding two A4 pages if appropriate.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

13. Project title:

Example CBOnline Online and Resource Development Grant Application - Smartphone Application Development

14. Provide a brief description of the project:

This project plans to consult the community broadcasting sector on their needs for smartphone applications and develop appropriate open source software to meet these needs.

15.Why is this project needed?

Need – The project will solve a problem or meet a need as described in the grant category objective.
Priority – The project addresses the identified category priorities.

The CBOnline Funding Survey shows that many stations are interested in smartphonetechnology to connect with their communities. The project will consult interested stations to establish their exact needs of stations and develop software to meet those needs. The project will ensure to consult a diverse range of community radio stations, this will include youth, Indigenous, ethnic, religious, music, metro, sub-metro and regional stations.
By establishing the needs and developing a platform from which open source software can be built, this project will use an innovative, sustainable and collaborative approach to building new technologies within the sector and made freely available to all community broadcasters.

16. How will the project be delivered?

Planning – Your proposal demonstrates thorough planning of the project.
Value – The methods you choose to conduct this project are cost effective for the outcomes to be produced.

Managed by a volunteer project manager, a working group will be formed from representative stations to oversee the project. This working group will manage the direction of the project from the ideas and feedback provided by the wider sector consultation. A third-party application developer will be engaged through a mini-tender process as chosen by the working group.
The project will initially seek expressions of interest from station representatives to sit on the working group. A consultation process will be developed and incorporate interviews with individual working group members, interviews with relevant sector bodies and experts in the development of these technologies, a survey across the sector, and other feedback collated from the sector.
From this feedback the working group will decide the scope of the open source platform and software and put the project to tender. The project manager will work with the developer providing regular updates to the working group on progress of the software and future planning beyond the life of the project. Being open source the software developed can then be updated and reconfigured by volunteer software developers across the sector for use by all community broadcasters.
With minimal administration costs from the initial consultation phase and in-kind Project Management, the majority of funding will be put into software development which will be tendered and decided on by the working group to be as cost effective as possible.

17. Who is involved?

Capacity – You demonstrate that you have access to the skills and resources to undertake and complete the project.
Stakeholders – You identify people / partners who will contribute to and benefit from the project.

The project will be managed by Jon Doe, an experienced project manager 3XXX Station Manager. The project will be supported by the 3XXXcommittee of management and office amenities. The working group will be chosen for the capacity to support the project as well as their relevant experience with new technologies and their representative sector. A third-party software developer will be engaged to develop the specifications designed by the working group.
All community broadcasting stations will benefit from the project with access to the developed softwares for the stations and to their audiences. Stations will also be encouraged to attract volunteer or student software developers to their stations to maintain and update the softwares developed as part of the open source platform. This will allow stations to better engage with their communities through this new technology platform.

18.What will the project achieve?

Impact – The project will provide lasting outcomes for your organisation, community and/or the wider community broadcasting sector.
Evaluation – You identify how you will measure the success of the project.

The software and applications developed will provide the basis for all stations in the sector to make use of smartphone applications that will provide greater engagement opportunities with their communities.By creating an open source platform, the project will be able to keep itself up-to-date with the latest technologies and engage volunteer software developers to their stations to be able to update and reconfigure these applications to meet their needs.
The project will measure the success of the consultation by the levels of consultation with the working group, sector bodies and experts, survey responses and general feedback processes. The success of the software developed can be measured by the uptake of the applications by stations, the uptake of the applications by users, continued development of the software by volunteers and feedback from all about the software developed.

PROJECT BUDGET

20. Income

GST exclusive $

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CBF grant requested* / $10,000
In kind contribution / $3,500
TOTAL INCOME / $13,500

21. Expenditure

If relevant attach three quotes from potential suppliers but summarise below only your preferred option/s.

Description(indicate which items you’re requesting CBF to pay for) GST exclusive $

Software development* / $9,000
Travel, meetings and consultation* / $1,000
Administration costs / $500
Project Manager – 100 hours at $30 per hour / $3,000
TOTAL EXPENDITURE / $13,500

22. Declaration

"I declare that to the best of my knowledge the information given in this application is true and accurate".

Station Manager / Board member
Signature: / Name: Joanne Bloggs
Date: X/X/2012 / Position: President

Your Privacy - The Community Broadcasting Foundation (CBF) respects your right to privacy protection. Where personal information is supplied to the CBF it is used to assist in providing resources and other services to you and in meeting our responsibilities as the funding agency for the community broadcasting sector. To this end your personal information may be shared with other sector organisations and funding providers. You have the right to access your personal information held by the CBF at any time. Complaints against the CBF’s acts or practices in relation to privacy protection may be investigated by the Privacy Commissioner who has power to award compensation in appropriate circumstances. For more information please see our Privacy Policy at contact the Foundation’s Executive Director on (03) 9419 8055 or by e-mail via .

We would be interested in any comments or suggestions you have about the CBF grants process. Please give us your feedback through the CBF website

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