I think something like this would again be a significant step in the right direction. (& I appreciate your creative effort to come up with constructive solutions, here & in your previous comment!)
I’m less excited about your second paragraph, though. For the jury to have the effect I would want, I’d want them to be able to scrutinise small grants to individuals.
Not opposed to a lower threshold—that would depend in significant part on how much staff, grantee, and donor time this process took. I’d probably start with a more significant threshold, then consider lowering it after a year based on lessons learned. Another option to potentially reduce costs would be having a random sample of microgrants go to jury.
Also, I didn’t mean to suggest that grants to individuals should avoid scrutiny, only that there’s a stronger argument for not identifying them by name or other personally-identifying information in many cases, even to the jury. I guess I would need to know the universe of what people had received unpublished grants for to have a more informed opinion on that.
I think something like this would again be a significant step in the right direction. (& I appreciate your creative effort to come up with constructive solutions, here & in your previous comment!)
I’m less excited about your second paragraph, though. For the jury to have the effect I would want, I’d want them to be able to scrutinise small grants to individuals.
Not opposed to a lower threshold—that would depend in significant part on how much staff, grantee, and donor time this process took. I’d probably start with a more significant threshold, then consider lowering it after a year based on lessons learned. Another option to potentially reduce costs would be having a random sample of microgrants go to jury.
Also, I didn’t mean to suggest that grants to individuals should avoid scrutiny, only that there’s a stronger argument for not identifying them by name or other personally-identifying information in many cases, even to the jury. I guess I would need to know the universe of what people had received unpublished grants for to have a more informed opinion on that.