“We are waiting on the completion of an impact evaluation for the previous grants before deciding upon significantly scaling the project.” Is there an intended timeline for this evaluation?
Following up on this—we’ve conducted initial parts of the programme evaluation, though haven’t yet done this comprehensively, and we’re not at the moment planning on publishing a public impact evaluation for EA Community Building Grants before the end of 2020. This is mainly because we’ve decided to prioritise other projects (fundraising, grant evaluation, developing programme strategy) above a public impact review. Also, we’ve found both doing the impact evaluation and communicating this externally to be larger projects than we previously thought. In retrospect, I think it was a mistake for me to expect that we’d be able to get this done by August.
Thanks for the question—the impact evaluation will take place in the summer of 2019, likely around August, which is when the majority of the 1-year community building grants end.
“We are waiting on the completion of an impact evaluation for the previous grants before deciding upon significantly scaling the project.” Is there an intended timeline for this evaluation?
Following up on this—we’ve conducted initial parts of the programme evaluation, though haven’t yet done this comprehensively, and we’re not at the moment planning on publishing a public impact evaluation for EA Community Building Grants before the end of 2020. This is mainly because we’ve decided to prioritise other projects (fundraising, grant evaluation, developing programme strategy) above a public impact review. Also, we’ve found both doing the impact evaluation and communicating this externally to be larger projects than we previously thought. In retrospect, I think it was a mistake for me to expect that we’d be able to get this done by August.
Thanks for the question—the impact evaluation will take place in the summer of 2019, likely around August, which is when the majority of the 1-year community building grants end.