Giving Compass' Take:
- Hannah Paterson, who facilitated Participatory Grantmaking 101 session, offers questions for donors to reflect on their grantmaking practices.
- How can daily reflection on best practices help individual donors become more effective givers?
- Here are five things that nonprofits want donors to know.
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At the Participatory Grantmaking 101 session I did a reverse Q&A where I asked the attendees a number of questions to reflect and ponder on and I invite you to do the same.
- Do you think you’re the best person to make the decisions you do?
- Do you think the people who make decisions about where funding goes are the best people to make those decisions?
- How often do you feel deflated by decision making meetings in your organisations?
- How often do you feel elated and excited by a decision making meetings in your organisations?
- How long have you been doing decision making in the same way in your organisation? When was the last time it changed? Was this a fundamental review or just a little tinkering with the agenda?
- How much of your time in decision making is spent talking about governance and risk?
- How much is spent talking about the idea and the impact?
- How long does it take people in your organisation to truly understand an ‘issue’ you are making a decision on?
- How long do you work on an ‘issue’ before it changes? Are you stuck in a cycle of not knowing enough, learning and lot, then moving to a different topic?
- Do you make decisions on things that you know little or nothing about?
- How would you feel if the organisation applying for funding, a service user or someone from that community could hear your decision making conversation about their application?
Read the full article about questions for donors by Hannah Paterson at Medium.