Draft amnesty equivalent of a comment (i.e. I haven’t put much thought into it.) I really enjoyed this post and agreed with a lot of what is in there.
For context, I manage a modest sized grant portfolio in the animal welfare space and think a lot about these (that is, my) shortcomings.
As an example, I had a meeting with a grant recipient last week where they explained that one of their programs wasn’t working out as planned. It was refreshing to hear this kind of honesty from a grant recipient because it is so rare.
Re experience outside of grant making, I have tended to volunteer as much as possible, but that is a limited substitute for all that you learn in paid campaigning.
I’d be interested to hear if anyone else has other ideas how to improve the problems Abraham describes here.
Draft amnesty equivalent of a comment (i.e. I haven’t put much thought into it.) I really enjoyed this post and agreed with a lot of what is in there.
For context, I manage a modest sized grant portfolio in the animal welfare space and think a lot about these (that is, my) shortcomings.
As an example, I had a meeting with a grant recipient last week where they explained that one of their programs wasn’t working out as planned. It was refreshing to hear this kind of honesty from a grant recipient because it is so rare.
Re experience outside of grant making, I have tended to volunteer as much as possible, but that is a limited substitute for all that you learn in paid campaigning.
I’d be interested to hear if anyone else has other ideas how to improve the problems Abraham describes here.