For privacy, you could let potential grantees request the recusal of specific fund members to prevent the publication of certain COIs, since the COIs of recused fund members don’t need to be published.
They could do this at two points:
1. At the very start of the process.
2. After they see the COI statements but before final decisions are made.
I’m not sure how early you would want to do 2 in the process, to avoid writing many unnecessary COI statements. You could do early screening by unanimous vote against funding specific potential grantees, and, in these cases, no COI statement would have to be written at all.
You could do early screening by unanimous vote against funding specific potential grantees, and, in these cases, no COI statement would have to be written at all.
Since we don’t publicize rejections, or even who applied to the fund, I wasn’t planning to write any COI statements for rejected applicants. That’s a bit sad, since it kind of leaves a significant number of decisions without accountability, but I don’t know what else to do.
The natural time for grantees to object to certain information to be included would be when we run our final writeup past them. They could then request that we change our writeup, or ask us to rerun the vote with certain members excluded, which would make the COI statements unnecessary.
Since we don’t publicize rejections, or even who applied to the fund, I wasn’t planning to write any COI statements for rejected applicants. That’s a bit sad, since it kind of leaves a significant number of decisions without accountability, but I don’t know what else to do.
You could give short write-ups (with COI statements) to rejected applicants, which they could then share themselves (publicly or privately). If someone asks you why a particular applicant didn’t get funding, you could request permission from the applicant to share the write-up with them or direct them to the applicant.
Do you expect that publicizing rejections would deter the kinds of applicants that would actually get grants from the fund? It might be worth running an informal survey. You could publicize all applicants and rejections as a rule, but only publish reasoning and COI statements for rejections with consent from the applicants. Such a rule might even encourage some applicants, if they believe it improves transparency and accountability.
The charity evaluators GiveWell and ACE publicize the charities they consider.
Of course, I don’t know how much extra work this would be.
The natural time for grantees to object to certain information to be included would be when we run our final writeup past them. They could then request that we change our writeup, or ask us to rerun the vote with certain members excluded, which would make the COI statements unnecessary.
For privacy, you could let potential grantees request the recusal of specific fund members to prevent the publication of certain COIs, since the COIs of recused fund members don’t need to be published.
They could do this at two points:
1. At the very start of the process.
2. After they see the COI statements but before final decisions are made.
I’m not sure how early you would want to do 2 in the process, to avoid writing many unnecessary COI statements. You could do early screening by unanimous vote against funding specific potential grantees, and, in these cases, no COI statement would have to be written at all.
Since we don’t publicize rejections, or even who applied to the fund, I wasn’t planning to write any COI statements for rejected applicants. That’s a bit sad, since it kind of leaves a significant number of decisions without accountability, but I don’t know what else to do.
The natural time for grantees to object to certain information to be included would be when we run our final writeup past them. They could then request that we change our writeup, or ask us to rerun the vote with certain members excluded, which would make the COI statements unnecessary.
You could give short write-ups (with COI statements) to rejected applicants, which they could then share themselves (publicly or privately). If someone asks you why a particular applicant didn’t get funding, you could request permission from the applicant to share the write-up with them or direct them to the applicant.
Do you expect that publicizing rejections would deter the kinds of applicants that would actually get grants from the fund? It might be worth running an informal survey. You could publicize all applicants and rejections as a rule, but only publish reasoning and COI statements for rejections with consent from the applicants. Such a rule might even encourage some applicants, if they believe it improves transparency and accountability.
The charity evaluators GiveWell and ACE publicize the charities they consider.
Of course, I don’t know how much extra work this would be.
Sounds good!