A grant round is a flood of applications and a trickle of readiness.
Hundreds apply. Most are not ready to receive funding well, and the review burns weeks of staff and committee time on applications that were never going to work. The promising ones get a rejection letter and no reason, and the next round starts from zero.
What you get with Earth Collective.
Applicants who are ready to be funded.
Every applicant works through the readiness engine before your committee sees them: a clear narrative, impact metrics, a risk management program and a data room, in the terms grant and impact funders use.
- Applications assessed on your criteria
- Narrative, impact metrics, risk program and data room
- A shortlist that is ready for diligence
Your committee spends its time on decisions.
Structured assessment and AI-assisted review do the first pass, your reviewers make the call, and every decision is kept. The applicants you do not fund leave with a next step instead of silence.
- AI assists, your people decide
- Every decision kept
- A next step for everyone who applied
Show what your funding achieved.
Impact is declared and scored from the first application, so you can report outcomes by impact area, country and sector, grantee by grantee, when your board or your donors ask.
- Impact declared and scored from day one
- Outcomes by impact area, country and sector
- A report ready when someone asks
Five stages, set up around your program.
- 01
Intake
Applications in, assessed on your criteria, decided by your people.
- 02
Develop
Applicants improve their case with feedback from your advisors.
- 03
Prepare
The readiness engine: narrative, impact metrics, risk plan and data room, in the language funders use.
- 04
Match
Applicants that are ready meet investors and funders who back what they do.
- 05
Report
Your whole pipeline in one view, ready when someone asks.
Your pipeline doesn’t reset each round.
Applicants keep their profiles and progress between calls, so each round starts with people you already know and a readiness picture you already have.
Your call, your criteria, your data.
Applicant data, investor mandates and program records are protected by design, and we work within your procurement requirements.
Kept apart from other programs
Your call runs in its own galaxy. Its data is scoped to your organisation and not visible to other programs.
Confidential applications
Applicants share their materials folder by folder, your team can open any data room in your galaxy, and every access is logged.
Contracts to match
We sign mutual NDAs, discuss a data processing agreement, and complete your security review.
Private by default
Passwordless sign-in, role-based access, and nothing reachable without a valid session.
Isolated by program
Your data is scoped to your organisation, and private cohorts stay private.
Logged and backed up
Data room access and AI calls are logged. Backups run daily and are kept for 30 days.
Your requirements, met
Mutual NDA, a data processing agreement, and your security questionnaire completed.
Common questions.
Do we have to fund through the platform?
No. Earth Collective runs the call and prepares the applicants. Where the money goes, and how it is paid, stays with you.
Can we run more than one call?
Yes. Each call runs in your galaxy with its own criteria, and applicants from one call stay in your pipeline for the next.
What happens to the applicants we don’t fund?
They keep their profile, their feedback and a next step, so the ones you could not fund this round are ready sooner next time.
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Run the whole cohort in one place, from applications to demo day, and keep your alumni fundable afterwards.
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