I’d be curious to about the team’s decision not to publish an annual report in 2021. Based on the 2020 report, it seemed like there were a number of big updates (regarding 80K’s impact on the community, and updates in how much impact 80K had) that seemed important to receive updates on.
Lumping 2021 and 2022 progress together into a single public report meant that we saved hundreds of hours of staff time.
A few other things that might be worth mentioning:
I’m not sure whether we’ll use 1 or 2 year cycles for public annual reviews in future.
This review (14 pages + appendices) was much less in-depth and so much less expensive to produce than 2020 (42 pages + appendices) or 2019 (109 pages + appendices). If we end up thinking that our public reviews should be more like this going forward then the annual approach would be much less costly.
In 2021, we only did a ‘mini-annual review’ internally, in which we attempted to keep the time cost of the review relatively low and not open up major strategic questions.
We didn’t fundraise in 2021.
I regret not publishing a blog post at the time stating this decision.
I’d be curious to about the team’s decision not to publish an annual report in 2021. Based on the 2020 report, it seemed like there were a number of big updates (regarding 80K’s impact on the community, and updates in how much impact 80K had) that seemed important to receive updates on.
Basically: these just take a really long time!
Lumping 2021 and 2022 progress together into a single public report meant that we saved hundreds of hours of staff time.
A few other things that might be worth mentioning:
I’m not sure whether we’ll use 1 or 2 year cycles for public annual reviews in future.
This review (14 pages + appendices) was much less in-depth and so much less expensive to produce than 2020 (42 pages + appendices) or 2019 (109 pages + appendices). If we end up thinking that our public reviews should be more like this going forward then the annual approach would be much less costly.
In 2021, we only did a ‘mini-annual review’ internally, in which we attempted to keep the time cost of the review relatively low and not open up major strategic questions.
We didn’t fundraise in 2021.
I regret not publishing a blog post at the time stating this decision.