In this case, the “mistakes” is often a list of things like, “This specific organization was much worse than we thought. The founders happened to have issues A, B, and C, which really hurt the organization’s performance”.
Releasing such information publicly is a big pain and something our culture is not very well attuned to. If OP basically announced information like, “This small group we funded is terrible, in large part because their CEO, George, is very incompetent”, that would be very unusual and there would likely be a large amount of resistance. I imagine OP would get a ton of heat for doing that.
This issue is amplified by the fact that OP is a grantmaking organization much more than a grant recommendation organization. If it posted information publicly about an organization’s competence, it’s not clear which other orgs would actually use that information.
My guess is that internally, people at OP admit a lot of mistakes. But making these mistakes public would create a lot of hazards, just because they contain a lot of information that specific organizations they work with would much prefer to be private.
In this case, the “mistakes” is often a list of things like, “This specific organization was much worse than we thought. The founders happened to have issues A, B, and C, which really hurt the organization’s performance”.
Releasing such information publicly is a big pain and something our culture is not very well attuned to. If OP basically announced information like, “This small group we funded is terrible, in large part because their CEO, George, is very incompetent”, that would be very unusual and there would likely be a large amount of resistance. I imagine OP would get a ton of heat for doing that.
This issue is amplified by the fact that OP is a grantmaking organization much more than a grant recommendation organization. If it posted information publicly about an organization’s competence, it’s not clear which other orgs would actually use that information.
My guess is that internally, people at OP admit a lot of mistakes. But making these mistakes public would create a lot of hazards, just because they contain a lot of information that specific organizations they work with would much prefer to be private.