On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>
wrote:
Actually, the experiment is whether such a campaign
would drive more
successful grants, as I understand it. It works from the assumption that
such grants would have a positive impact. I'm happy to go with that
assumption though.
I still strongly disagree with this initiative, but especially the way it
is executed. I'm glad to hear that all time-sensitive requests can still
apply during this period - that would probably be quite a few requests.
I'm still in the dark as to why this has to be a three month program (that
is a very long period of time to put everything on hold for an experiment)
and not just 2-4 weeks. Then you could actually commit to quicker
run-through times in the program, etc. Reducing the time frame would reduce
the damaging side effect significantly.
The campaign itself will only run for a month - in my experience with past
open calls for IEG, you really do need more than 2 weeks to get the word
out and get new ideas not only started but also developed w/ enough
community input that we rely on to assess which grants should move forward.
But in addition to the actual campaign itself, we need to bake in enough
time to prepare for it beforehand and get funded projects started
afterwards. There is significant staff effort behind the scenes for any
grantmaking we do, and in my experience even quick pilots take time to prep
and wrapup.
I'm hearing your concerns loud and clear, still, and agree it will be
interesting to see how many truly time-sensitive requests will come up
during this period. If the campaign is deemed a success worth repeating and
we also find we're over-stretching those involved (staff and volunteers)
because many non-theme focused projects need to be concurrently considered
(this is a big concern for me, and something we'll be keeping a close eye
on), that could be data-driven rationale for resourcing grantmaking
differently in next year's annual plan.
Siko
Lodewijk
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Peter Southwood <
peter.southwood(a)telkomsa.net> wrote:
Did you not see the bit about
"experimental"?
Cheers,
Peter
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* Siko Bouterse wrote:
Why the gender gap? Although we’ve committed to
supporting and
increasing gender diversity, so far these kinds of projects haven’t
emerged organically at any meaningful scale. In the first half of this
year, IEG and PEG have spent only 9% of funds on projects aiming to
directly impact this gap and less than ? of our grantee project leaders
have been
women.
Without taking time to focus on increasing gender
diversity in our
content and contributors, this trend is likely to continue.
What evidence is there that spending more on "gender gap" will have any
measurable impact on "gender gap"? I also note that you say
"projects"
have not "emerged". That sounds like people do not actually have ideas
how
to "impact" "gender gap" with
money. Could you identify a couple of
projects that would have considerable "impact" on "gender gap" but
that
have been refused funding in the past due to a lack of "focus" on "gen-
der
gap"?
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