I think my take is that evaluation and ranking often really makes sense for very specific goals. Otherwise you get the problem of evaluating an airplane using the metrics of a washing machine.
This post was rather short. I think if a funnel became more capacity, it would have to be clarified that it has a very particular goal in mind. In this case, the goal would be “identifying targets that could be entire nonprofits”.
We’ve discussed organizing cause areas that could make sense for smaller projects, but one problem with that is that the number of possible candidates in that case goes up considerably. It becomes a much messier problem to organize the space of possible options for any kind of useful work. If you have good ideas for this, please do post!
OK, I think that’s probably fine as long as you are very clear on the scope and the fact that some cause areas that you ‘funnel out’ may in fact still be very important through other lenses.
It sounds like you might be doing something quite similar to Charity Entrepreneurship so you may (or may not) want to collaborate with them in some way. At the very least they might be interested in the outcome of your research.
Speaking of CE, they are looking to incubate a non-profit that will work full-time on evaluating cause areas. I actually think it might be good if you have a somewhat narrow focus, because I’d imagine their organisation will inevitably end up taking quite a wide focus.
Great point.
I think my take is that evaluation and ranking often really makes sense for very specific goals. Otherwise you get the problem of evaluating an airplane using the metrics of a washing machine.
This post was rather short. I think if a funnel became more capacity, it would have to be clarified that it has a very particular goal in mind. In this case, the goal would be “identifying targets that could be entire nonprofits”.
We’ve discussed organizing cause areas that could make sense for smaller projects, but one problem with that is that the number of possible candidates in that case goes up considerably. It becomes a much messier problem to organize the space of possible options for any kind of useful work. If you have good ideas for this, please do post!
OK, I think that’s probably fine as long as you are very clear on the scope and the fact that some cause areas that you ‘funnel out’ may in fact still be very important through other lenses.
It sounds like you might be doing something quite similar to Charity Entrepreneurship so you may (or may not) want to collaborate with them in some way. At the very least they might be interested in the outcome of your research.
Speaking of CE, they are looking to incubate a non-profit that will work full-time on evaluating cause areas. I actually think it might be good if you have a somewhat narrow focus, because I’d imagine their organisation will inevitably end up taking quite a wide focus.