Kylie Strudwick has over 25 years of experience in both the NFP sector and in Government agencies. She has successfully sourced funding from 20 of the top 50 philanthropic foundations in Australia and over 25 of the top 100 Australian companies.
Kylie has worked for Teach For Australia, The Queensland Library Foundation, Westmead Medical Research Foundation and Telstra Child Flight.
She is skilled in working with multi-disciplinary project teams and has earned a reputation of working collaboratively to ensure the successful delivery of funded programs. She provided strategic fundraising advice to Brisbane City Council, Koorie Heritage Trust, Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation and Artback Arts.
Linda Dunkin has over 30 years experience as a professional marketer with corporate roles the in retail, tourism, exhibitions & events industries and most recently as an independent consultant providing outsourced marketing services to high growth companies.
In addition to her professional experience Linda has held several leadership roles in her children’s local OOSH and High School P&C. She has experienced firsthand the time and effort involved in the research, planning and applying for grants.
Her observations have been clear. In organisations where grants are the most needed, often the people doing all the work are volunteers who are time poor or don’t have the experience required to prepare applications professionally.