Lorikeet Bushy Tree Mandala (detail). Emily Crockford, Studio A. Mural in Westpac Service Centre, Concord West, NSW. Photo: Jessica Leggett.
Welcome to the Create NSW Creating New Income: a toolkit to support creative practice. Here you’ll find guides and resources to help generate revenue for your creative practice. The Toolkit is tailored to creative practitioners and small to medium organisations.
We’ve taken a “how to” approach to each topic, showing the steps needed to grow and develop income streams from sources such as philanthropy, sponsorship, crowdfunding and new products.
Individual guides contain links to related information throughout the Toolkit and case studies of success from around NSW. Alongside each of our guides you’ll find links to further resources sourced from around the web to help kick-start your fundraising efforts.
Throughout the Toolkit you will find guides on a range of topics to inform and assist your revenue raising practices. These short clear guides can be dipped into as needed. The Toolkit is not designed to be read cover-to-cover.
Download the full Toolkit or dip into the individual guides that relate to your area of interest.
Full Creating New Income Toolkit
Being Fit For Fundraising Toolkit
Building Your Donor Base Toolkit
Trusts and Foundations Toolkit
Crowdfunding and Collective Giving Toolkit
New Products and Services Toolkit
If you have any questions or comments on this toolkit, please email mail@create.nsw.gov.au.
Additional resources
A ‘How To’ Panel
Elizabeth W. Scott, Executive Director Create Investment & Engagement, introduces the Toolkit and provides a short overview of how it works and its contents, and interview a panel made up of three representatives from the Case Studies used in the Toolkit and one of the authors of the Toolkit. The panel consists of Genevieve Clay-Smith, CEO Bus Stop Films, Gabrielle Mordy, CEO Studio A and Mikala Tai, CEO Gallery 4A, and David Sharpe, Sharpe Advisory.
NESTA’s Funding Innovation: A practice guide
NESTA has just released Funding Innovation: A practice guide. This guide shares the funding tools Nesta has used to support innovation and offers practical advice on how to make money work harder using a range of financial approaches, including stage-gate grants; matched funding grants; challenge prizes; impact investment etc.
https://www.nesta.org.uk/toolkit/funding-innovation-practice-guide/