Some related questions, adapted from something I wrote previously:
To the extent that you’re bottlenecked by the number of good applications or would be bottlenecked by that if funded more, is that because (or do you expect it’d be because) there too few applications in general, or too low a proportion that are high-quality?
When an application isn’t sufficiently high-quality, is that usually due to the quality of the idea, the quality of the applicant, or a mismatch between the idea and the applicant’s skillset (e.g., the applicant does seem highly generally competent, but lacks a specific, relevant skill)?
If there are too few applicants, or too few with relevant skills, is this because there are too few of such people interested in effective animal advocacy, or because there probably are such people who are in EAA but they’re applying less often than would be ideal?
(It seems like answers to those questions could inform whether AWF should focus on generating more ideas, finding more people from within EAA who could execute ideas, finding more people from outside of EAA who could execute ideas, improving the match between ideas and people, or just building the relevant community.)
Some related questions, adapted from something I wrote previously:
To the extent that you’re bottlenecked by the number of good applications or would be bottlenecked by that if funded more, is that because (or do you expect it’d be because) there too few applications in general, or too low a proportion that are high-quality?
When an application isn’t sufficiently high-quality, is that usually due to the quality of the idea, the quality of the applicant, or a mismatch between the idea and the applicant’s skillset (e.g., the applicant does seem highly generally competent, but lacks a specific, relevant skill)?
If there are too few applicants, or too few with relevant skills, is this because there are too few of such people interested in effective animal advocacy, or because there probably are such people who are in EAA but they’re applying less often than would be ideal?
(It seems like answers to those questions could inform whether AWF should focus on generating more ideas, finding more people from within EAA who could execute ideas, finding more people from outside of EAA who could execute ideas, improving the match between ideas and people, or just building the relevant community.)