Thank you for posting this, this seems really interesting and valuable. I’d love to see (and fund) more analyses like this.
One quick point – you say:
Sent to all current participants in CEAs CBG-program (note that this does not include university groups)
Does that mean that ‘community builder’ does not include people running university groups throughout your entire post/report? Or did, e.g., the exit interviews and previous surveys you looked at include people from university groups?
Especially if all of your report is only based on non-uni community building, this might be worth highlighting more clearly and earlier since my sense is that a significant of the total community building that is happening is happening within university groups [?], and so this is the context many people will be most familiar with. (And the name ‘community building grants’ doesn’t make it obvious to readers that it excludes uni groups.)
The survey was only sent out to community builders in city and national groups. Also the exit interviews where with people from city and national groups, but three of them had been university organizers. And you are right, the name ‘community building grants’ doesn’t make it obvious that it excludes uni groups. I should make this clearer in the post—will edit!
However, previous work included input from uni group leaders and before posting this post I shared it with uni group leaders, to see if they had differing views. I could sense there was some systematic differences, but the main points seem to be shared.
As said in the post I plan to do further work on this and one of the most important thing to do I think is getting input from other community builders (uni group organizers / cause area group organizers / unpaid group organizers) both to get a more robust picture and see if there are important differences. One thing I feel a little hesitant about though is how to translate findings related to other community builders into actions, given that many of them don’t really have a clear “home”, who might be able to adress issues. I would love input on this.
Thank you for posting this, this seems really interesting and valuable. I’d love to see (and fund) more analyses like this.
One quick point – you say:
Does that mean that ‘community builder’ does not include people running university groups throughout your entire post/report? Or did, e.g., the exit interviews and previous surveys you looked at include people from university groups?
Especially if all of your report is only based on non-uni community building, this might be worth highlighting more clearly and earlier since my sense is that a significant of the total community building that is happening is happening within university groups [?], and so this is the context many people will be most familiar with. (And the name ‘community building grants’ doesn’t make it obvious to readers that it excludes uni groups.)
Thank you for the comment!
The survey was only sent out to community builders in city and national groups. Also the exit interviews where with people from city and national groups, but three of them had been university organizers. And you are right, the name ‘community building grants’ doesn’t make it obvious that it excludes uni groups. I should make this clearer in the post—will edit!
However, previous work included input from uni group leaders and before posting this post I shared it with uni group leaders, to see if they had differing views. I could sense there was some systematic differences, but the main points seem to be shared.
As said in the post I plan to do further work on this and one of the most important thing to do I think is getting input from other community builders (uni group organizers / cause area group organizers / unpaid group organizers) both to get a more robust picture and see if there are important differences. One thing I feel a little hesitant about though is how to translate findings related to other community builders into actions, given that many of them don’t really have a clear “home”, who might be able to adress issues. I would love input on this.