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Launching the Fieldshaper Program (opens the original)
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SummaryOver the course of a year, the Fieldshaper program develops you into a field-leading grantmaker. You’ll steward $1,000,000 in grant capital, receive a $125,000 annual stipend, and deploy that capital within a sub-field of one of three key areas (farmed animals, global health, or philanthropic infrastructure); building the track record to become a grantmaker who can shape a field.Role DetailsTitle: Grantmaker-In-Residence (Leader of the X fund or Grantmaker in Y area also possible options)
Hiring: five traits, twenty measures (opens the original)
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Hiring well is hard; it’s competitive, with each organisation wanting to find “the best of the best“. The good news is that the hiring market as a whole is pretty inefficient, with everyone using different processes and systems, and with outcome data rarely being fed back into the hiring team. This means it’s an ideal world to find traits and people that are undervalued. If I had to put all my hiring advice into a sentence, it would be:“Most hiring looks for twenty traits and measures each one w
When Senior Grantmaker Time Is the Bottleneck (opens the original)
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For many grantmakers, the bottleneck is not the amount of funding they can give out, nor is it the state of NGOs in the space. For many, it’s the bottleneck of time that can go into grant evaluation (most often from senior grantmakers). A good way to tell if this might be you is if you feel that with two of you significantly more funding would get out the door, or if your process takes longer than three months because of your side, not the grantees’. In many cases, deployment is dependent on the
We're Hiring: Help Solve Philanthropy's Biggest Problems (opens the original)
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Do you want to work with me on solving the biggest problems in philanthropy? If so, you might want to come join our team at Elevate Philanthropy!<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="433" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1txa!,w_1456,c_li
How To Cut Your Funding To a Long Time Grantee (opens the original)
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One of the most painful parts of being a good grantmaker is the cuts that inevitably need to happen. Every dollar granted to NGO A could have gone to NGO B, and that means the opportunity cost of funding anyone but the best NGOs in your portfolio is high. However, these conversations are hard, and can often mean affecting a relationship you may have had for years. Typically, the people running NGOs (even ones you should not fund) are great people who genuinely care about doing good for the world
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