Agreed, it’s a relatively information loaded statement with little explanation (yet). I’m planning on following up with some more thoughts on that soon but I just wanted to publish this data first. I’ve also added the original FB post where there’s more discussion on this issue.
To clarify, I’m not saying we’re overfunding it or we should fund less corporate campaigns, rather than I’m surprised at how the proportion of our resources being spent then relative to other interventions. “Over invested” is probably a bad use of phrase so my bad there.
Agreed about the lumpiness of grants—I did mention it and I’ve tried to clarify it further so hopefully it’s a more accurate depiction of events now.
The requests for proposals are definitely useful for people trying to understand future funding so thanks for linking those!
EDIT: On reflection, I thought my initial statement was stronger than I wanted to so I’ve reworded it to:
I’m planning on writing more about this shortly but my first (not fully developed) impression is surprise at how much we’re funding these campaigns & related research relative to other advocacy methods. See some information on potential reasons why in this post.
Hey Charles, thanks for the response!
A few quick points:
Agreed, it’s a relatively information loaded statement with little explanation (yet). I’m planning on following up with some more thoughts on that soon but I just wanted to publish this data first. I’ve also added the original FB post where there’s more discussion on this issue.
To clarify, I’m not saying we’re overfunding it or we should fund less corporate campaigns, rather than I’m surprised at how the proportion of our resources being spent then relative to other interventions. “Over invested” is probably a bad use of phrase so my bad there.
Agreed about the lumpiness of grants—I did mention it and I’ve tried to clarify it further so hopefully it’s a more accurate depiction of events now.
The requests for proposals are definitely useful for people trying to understand future funding so thanks for linking those!
EDIT: On reflection, I thought my initial statement was stronger than I wanted to so I’ve reworded it to:
So thank you for raising this Charles.