Trev's Grant Funding Playbook

Win your next grant even if you've never written one.

There's funding out there for your programs, your equipment, your projects, your people. The hard part was never the money. It's knowing where to look and what to say. This is the playbook that hands a volunteer the whole game plan, with your AI grant strategist Max walking you through it one play at a time. No experience required.

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See the playbook in action

A quick look at the funding strategy your organisation is about to run.

The volunteer's dilemma

You took this on because you believe in it, not because you wanted to become a grant writer. Meanwhile the grant money that could fund your work is sitting there, going to the organisations who know how to ask. This evens the playing field.

Your game plan

Five plays, start to funded

The exact sequence behind 40+ years of funded applications, broken into plays any volunteer can run, with Max calling each one.

1
Play one
Size up the play
Pressure-test your project idea so funders take it seriously, before you spend a minute writing.
2
Play two
Get everyone in the huddle
Line up your board, committee and key people behind one clear goal, so your application speaks with one voice.
3
Play three
Build your bench
Test and lock in community and local-business support up front, the backing that makes funders say yes.
4
Play four
Make some noise
Max writes the press release and social posts that get your organisation noticed. Half the battle, done for you.
5
Play five
Run it in
Draft the winning application with Max, then you have the final say. You stay in control; you just skip the blank page.
Max
What does your organisation do, and which state are you in?
Youth mentoring — Queensland
Perfect. Are you after equipment, facilities, a program, or running costs?
Step 1

Tell Max about your organisation

A few quick questions — no forms, no jargon. Max does the thinking.

Matched grants
Gambling Community Benefit Fund
Closes 28 Aug · Round open
94% match
$35,000
Volunteer Grants — Dept of Social Services
Closes 12 Sep · Equipment
88% match
$5,000
Step 2

Max finds the grants you'll win

Live search of the Australian funding landscape, shortlisted to rounds your organisation actually qualifies for.

Application draft
Project: Upgrade the Community Kitchen
Step 3

Max drafts the application

A full first draft shaped by 40+ years of what wins. You never face a blank page.

Community post
OUR VISION
Hot meals for 120 local families each week
We're applying for grant funding to make it happen — and we'd love your backing.
Tagging @YourCouncil · @LocalMP · @LocalSponsor
Step 4

Max rallies support for your vision

Max shares your vision, announces you're going for grant funding, and tags the stakeholders whose backing strengthens the bid — long before any decision is made.

Your review
"This project will give 120 local families a hot meal every week…"
Want me to make it warmer, or add your sponsor's name?
✓ Approve & continue
Step 5

You review and approve

You're the editor. Tweak a line, ask for changes, then approve — you stay in control the whole way.

Result
$35,000
Application funded
Step 6

Submitted → funded

The payoff: money in for your programs, your equipment, your community. One grant pays for Max many times over.

Why not just use ChatGPT?

A blank chatbot only knows what you remember to ask. As a volunteer, you don't know what you don't know, and that's fine. Max already does.

He knows what to ask, in what order. A blank chatbot waits for you to think of the right question. Max runs a proven sequence built from decades of funded applications, so nothing that matters slips through.

He uses the method that wins today. Filling in a form and hoping doesn't cut it anymore. Max raises your organisation's profile first, so funders already know and trust you before you apply.

He hands you the media, not just the form. Press releases and social posts that move funding decisions. Generic AI doesn't know this is half the game. Max makes it the starting whistle.

ChatGPT hands you a blank page. Max hands you a play-by-play path to funded.

What Max does for you, around the clock

🔍 Finds the grants your organisation actually qualifies for

Real-time search across the Australian funding landscape, from council and community grants and the Gambling Community Benefit Fund to the Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal, philanthropic trusts and state government rounds, shortlisted to the ones an organisation like yours can actually win. No more late-night searching.

📝 Writes the first draft so you never face a blank page

A structured application draft you simply react to and approve, shaped by 40+ years of what wins. You're the editor, not the author starting from nothing.

📢 Handles the publicity for you

Press releases for the local paper and posts for your organisation's feed, written and ready, the profile-raising work that quietly tips funding your way.

🎓 Guides you, so next time you've got it

Max doesn't just do the work. He shows you the why behind each move, so your organisation builds a skill that pays off year after year.

One price. The playbook is yours for life.

No subscriptions, no monthly fees. One payment and you keep Max, the full playbook and the training course for good. One funded grant pays for it many times over.

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Proof the strategy delivers

These results come from organisations across very different sectors, the same method now packaged for any group chasing funding. More stories landing soon; yours could be the first.

The grant writing strategy and process Trevor implemented for us many years ago transformed how we approach funding. It has consistently delivered over a million dollars in grants every year since. We cannot recommend his approach highly enough.

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Gold Coast Community Housing
Gold Coast, Australia

We're run entirely by volunteers, and grant writing always felt out of our depth. Trevor's approach changed everything. It's not about filling in forms and hoping, it's about getting your club known first. We learned to raise our profile, get our story into the local paper, and build a real relationship with the people who hand out the grants. They know who we are now. We've won funding we'd never have gone for, and it's transformed what we can put on the water for our Dragon Boaters.

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Treasurer, Hervey Bay Dragon Boat Club
Hervey Bay, QLD

Before we found Trevor's strategy, securing funding felt impossible. His process gave us the tools and confidence to compete for grants we never would have attempted. He changed what we believed was possible for our community.

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Food Provision Agency
Nairobi, Kenya

Built for the volunteers who keep good causes running. The Grant Playbook hands you the game plan and a guide who never clocks off, so the money that's out there ends up funding your work, your people and your future. Because every organisation deserves a shot at being funded.

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