I don’t disagree. I was simply airing my suspicion that most group organizers who applied for the OP fellowship did so because they thought something akin to “I will be organizing for 8-20 hours a week and I want to be incentivized for doing so” — which is perfectly a-ok and a valid reason — rather than “I am applying to the fellowship as I will not be able to sustain myself without the funding.”
In cases where people need to make trade-offs between taking some random university job vs. organizing part time, assuming that they are genuinely interested in organizing and that the university has potential, I think it would be valuable for them to get funding.
I don’t disagree. I was simply airing my suspicion that most group organizers who applied for the OP fellowship did so because they thought something akin to “I will be organizing for 8-20 hours a week and I want to be incentivized for doing so” — which is perfectly a-ok and a valid reason — rather than “I am applying to the fellowship as I will not be able to sustain myself without the funding.”
In cases where people need to make trade-offs between taking some random university job vs. organizing part time, assuming that they are genuinely interested in organizing and that the university has potential, I think it would be valuable for them to get funding.