I very much agree with your decision of not recommending ACE’s RCF, and I think your evaluation was great. Nitpick. ACE’s additional funds discount for low uncertainty should be higher than 0 % (and lower than 20 %), or there is a typo in the table below?
ACE considers charities’ priorities for additional funds — in other words, how the charity would use unexpected additional funding — and assesses ‘uncertainty about effectiveness and tractability of plans’ — how likely they think each line item in the charity’s plan is to experience diminishing returns or not play out as expected under the charity’s growth plan. ACE assesses each line item in a charity’s proposed future plans on a scale from very low uncertainty to very high uncertainty, with a corresponding discount applied to the cost of the line item.
I very much agree with your decision of not recommending ACE’s RCF, and I think your evaluation was great. Nitpick. ACE’s additional funds discount for low uncertainty should be higher than 0 % (and lower than 20 %), or there is a typo in the table below?