A donor-pays philanthropy-advice-first model solves several of these problems.
If your model focuses primarily on providing advice to donors, your scope is “anything which is relevant to donating”, which is broad enough that you’re bound to have lots of high-impact research to do, which helps with constraint 1.
Strategising and prioritisation are much easier when you’re knee-deep in supporting donors with their donations—this highlights the pain points in making good giving decisions, which helps with constraint 2.
If donors perceive that the research is worth funding, and have potentially had input into the ideation of the research project, they are likely to be willing to fund it, which helps with constraint 6.
A donor-pays philanthropy-advice-first model solves several of these problems.
If your model focuses primarily on providing advice to donors, your scope is “anything which is relevant to donating”, which is broad enough that you’re bound to have lots of high-impact research to do, which helps with constraint 1.
Strategising and prioritisation are much easier when you’re knee-deep in supporting donors with their donations—this highlights the pain points in making good giving decisions, which helps with constraint 2.
If donors perceive that the research is worth funding, and have potentially had input into the ideation of the research project, they are likely to be willing to fund it, which helps with constraint 6.
This explains why SoGive adopted this model.