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title: "Membership Hack: Crowdsourcing Grant Opportunities"
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excerpt: "The International Documentary Association connects members to an online database of grant funding. Members can also ask questions about grant applications using the Twitter hashtag #FunderFriday."
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**How to hack it?**Members of the International Documentary Association need grant funding to green-light film projects, and they often turn to IDA with questions about how and where to apply. To provide some immediate answers, IDA takes a crowdsourcing approach, collecting information from members and listing active grants in [an online database (opens in a new tab)](https://airtable.com/shrXiCFbXtjL04ZQY/tbl71vFUL804eGbkz/viwVFi9vq6VX91oQq?blocks=hide)
.

**Why does it work?** The database includes information on more than 300 grant-making organizations that support filmmaking and other projects in the humanities, with practical information like the amounts of money awarded and application deadlines. In the past, IDA [used a blog to share tips (opens in a new tab)](https://www.documentary.org/blog/funderfriday-redford-center-gives-us-sneak-peak-their-new-grants-program)
 on how to apply for competitive grants in a Q&A exchange with grant makers.

**What’s the bonus?** IDA also shares grant opportunities via Twitter and uses the platform to answer members’ questions in real time using the hashtag [#FunderFriday (opens in a new tab)](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23FunderFriday&src=typd)
.

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[Tim Ebner](https://associationsnow.com/author/tim-ebner/)

Tim Ebner is communications director and press secretary at the American Forest & Paper Association in Washington, DC. He is a member of ASAE’s Communication Professionals Advisory Council and a former Associations Now senior editor.

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