Guides and templates for grants on Rounds - Product News

Rounds is the community app, separate from Backed's grant management, so this has no Help Centre article.

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• Resources. Resources, in Explore's quick links, lists Rounds' guides for community organisations in Australia and New Zealand. Anyone can read them without signing in.
• Find a guide. Search the guides by title and summary, and narrow the list by topic or by who a guide is for.
• Read a guide. Each guide shows who it is for, how long it takes to read and the day it was last checked. Its topics link to their topic pages, and the sources it was checked against are listed at the foot.
• Grants to go with it. Under a guide, Rounds shows up to three open grants in the guide's topics, closing first.
• Ten guides. Getting grant-ready, reading a round's eligibility, finding the right funders, the project budget, the need statement, outcomes and evidence, letters of support, acquittals and reporting, applying on SmartyGrants portals, and a grants calendar for the year. Each is checked against the regulators', governments' and funders' own pages it lists as sources.
• Templates. Templates, linked from Resources, offers five files to download and fill in: a project budget, an outcomes framework and a grants calendar as spreadsheets, and a letter of support and an acquittal report as Word documents. The budget and the calendar add up their own totals, and the budget checks that income and expenditure match.
• A how-to for each. Each template has a one-page guide to what is in the file and how to fill it in, linked both ways with the longer guide on its subject.
• Counted, not tracked. Rounds counts each download and nothing about who made it.
• Guides written by community managers. Community managers and super-admins have Guides in the account menu, beside Organisation claims. It lists the guides written there, and New guide opens the editor: the address, title, summary, who it is for, one to five topics, the author, the guide itself in a short Markdown and the sources it was checked against.
• See it as you write it. A preview beside the form (under it on a phone) shows the guide as readers will see it, with every change. Headings, paragraphs, lists, notes, links, bold and italics work; anything else, such as HTML or a picture, shows as typed, and a link goes only to an https address or a page on Rounds.
• Drafts, versions and publishing. Save draft saves the next version and lists it in the guide's history with who saved it. Publish puts the guide on Resources beside Rounds' own, in search, the filters and the sitemap; later edits wait until it is published again. Unpublish takes it down, and its page is gone straight away. A guide's address cannot change once it has been published, and cannot be the address of one of Rounds' own guides.