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2011-12 Fundraising and Funds Dissemination process/Funds Dissemination Criteria Table

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I apologize for this being such a clunky page, but I'd like to see if we can make it work.

Purpose of this table

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The purpose of this table is to get a sense from people here of what they think the criteria should be for determining how funds are disseminated in the movement --- in other words, what conditions should need to be in place before money is awarded to movement players. It seems to me that different requests likely warrant different levels of assessment, based on who is making the request, how much funding is being requested, and what its purpose is. The goal of this table is to see if we've got any agreement on what levels of assessment would be appropriate for each type of request.

How this table is structured

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  • The left-most column lists the nature of the entity and what level of funding it is asking for.
  • All the other columns are various funding criteria. There is a legend below the table.
  • The contents of each cell will be checkmarks, or if no-one has added a checkmark it'll say Example.

How to fill in this table

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First, thank you for being willing to give input! Filling out this table would probably take about 10 minutes, and I appreciate you investing the time. Anybody can fill out this table, no matter who you are: I am just asking for opinions here, and although some people will be better informed and more invested than others, I think everybody's opinion would help. I am going to assume that anybody who fills out the table is doing it with their personal opinions only. For the purposes of this, I'm not actually that interested in who thinks what; I am more interested in just seeing if there's general agreement anywhere.

To fill out the table, please add a checkmark to the appropriate cells.

Examples: If you believe that all funding requests should have their strategic value or likely impact assessed relative to other funding requests, then you should add checkmarks to all the cells in the K column. If you believe that "track record of compliance with local laws governing your type of organization" is irrelevant, then you should not add any checkmarks to cells in the D column. If you believe something that you can't fit into the table (like, if you believe that no individual should ever be given a grant exceeding 500K) please make a comment beneath the table.

I'd like to encourage people to fill out the table even if they're not absolutely certain about their views, and even if they think their opinions might change after discussion with others. The purpose of this is to do a quick scan of people's initial views today, so we can see if there's quite a bit of general agreement, or not.

How else you can help here

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  • Feel free to publicize this page to other people who might want to fill it out, and who haven't noticed it. That would be very helpful.
  • I wonder if we also want to add "x"s in addition to checkmarks. Feel free to do that too if you want.
  • If you can make the table better and easier to use (like Mike Peel did for this table, by fixing some formatting wonkiness related to footnotes), that would be great.
  • If you want to add new columns (new criteria), I think that's fine. You might want to discuss them on the talk page first, just to check if people find them useful/understandable. It probably isn't worth adding new rows (ie types of funding requests) since the ones currently in the table probably cover 100% of possible types.
  • If you want to dramatically overhaul anything here, please discuss it on the talk page.

I'm going to fill out the table myself, but I'll probably wait a few days so my input doesn't accidentally have an anchoring effect on anybody else. Caveats: my input will be just my fast personal gut opinion, and obviously because this is just a table I won't be able to express the full nuance of everything I think, plus I might change my mind over time.

Thanks, Sue Gardner 03:52, 13 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Payment processing

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Payment processing
financial local laws spending international reporting strategy
track
record

[1]
current
controls

[2]
track
record

[3]
current
compliance

[4]
track
record

[5]
current
capacity

[6]
willing-
ness

[7]
legal
ability

[8]
track
record

[9]
willing-
ness

[10]
assessm't
of value

[11]
chapter that wants to process payments √√√ √√√√√ √√√√ √√√√√ √√√√ √√√√ √√√ √X√ √√√X √√√√ √X

Operating funds

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Operating funds
financial local laws spending international reporting strategy
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
chapter seeking more than US$500K √√ √√√√ √√√ √√√√ √√ √√√ √√√ √√√√ √√
other organization (non-chapter) seeking more than US$500K √√√ √√√ √√√ √√√ √√√ √√ √√ √√ √√√
chapter seeking less than 500K √√√√ √√ √√√√ √√√ √√√ √√√√ √√
other organization (non-chapter) seeking less than US$500K √√√ √√√ √√√ √√√ √√√ √√ √√ √√√ √√√

Funds restricted for programmatic activities

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Funds restricted for programmatic activities
financial local laws spending international reporting strategy
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
chapter seeking more than US$500K √√ √√ √√√ √√√ √√ √√√ √√√ √√
other organization (non-chapter) seeking more than US$500K √√√ √√√ √√√ √√√ √√√ √√√ √√√ √√√
individual seeking more than US$500K √√ √√
chapter seeking US$100-500K √√ √√ √√ √√
other organization (non-chapter) seeking US$100-500K √√ √√ √√ √√ √√
individual seeking US$100-500K √√ √√
chapter seeking less than US$100K √√ √√ √√
other organization (non-chapter) seeking less than US$100K √√ √√ √√ √√ √√
individual seeking less than US$100K √√ √√ √√√ √√
Color code
chapter non-chapter individual

Legend for the columns

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  1. a b c Track record for financial controls and standards
  2. a b c Current financial controls and standards
  3. a b c Track record of compliance with local laws governing your type of organization
  4. a b c Current compliance with local laws governing your type of organization
  5. a b c Track record of spending funds effectively
  6. a b c Current capacity to spend funds effectively
  7. a b c Willingness to transfer an appropriate amount of the funding to be used internationally
  8. a b c Legal ability to transfer an appropriate amount of the funding to be used internationally
  9. a b c Track record of timely reporting (on activities, financial status, spending)
  10. a b c Willingness to commit to timely reporting in future (activities, financial status, spending)
  11. a b c Assessment of the strategic value (or likely impact) of the plans, relative to other funding requests

Béria's version

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Payment processing

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Payment processing
chapter that wants to payment process
financial Track record for financial controls and standards Not OK Not OK
Current financial controls and standards OK OK
local laws Track record of compliance with local laws governing your type of organization OK OK
Current compliance with local laws governing your type of organization OK OK
spending Track record of spending funds effectively Not OK Not OK
Current capacity to spend funds effectively Not OK Not OK
international Willingness to transfer an appropriate amount of the funding to be used internationally Not OK Not OK
Legal ability to transfer an appropriate amount of the funding to be used internationally Not OK Not OK
reporting Track record of timely reporting (on activities, financial status, spending) OK OK
Willingness to commit to timely reporting in future (activities, financial status, spending) OK OK
strategy Assessment of the strategic value (or likely impact) of the plans, relative to other funding requests Not OK Not OK

Operating funds

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Operating funds
chapter seeking more than US$500K other organization (non-chapter) seeking more than US$500K chapter seeking less than US$500K other organization (non-chapter) seeking more than US$500K
financial Track record for financial controls and standards
Current financial controls and standards
local laws Track record of compliance with local laws governing your type of organization
Current compliance with local laws governing your type of organization
spending Track record of spending funds effectively
Current capacity to spend funds effectively
international Willingness to transfer an appropriate amount of the funding to be used internationally
Legal ability to transfer an appropriate amount of the funding to be used internationally
reporting Track record of timely reporting (on activities, financial status, spending)
Willingness to commit to timely reporting in future (activities, financial status, spending)
strategy Assessment of the strategic value (or likely impact) of the plans, relative to other funding requests

Funds restricted for programmatic activities

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Funds restricted for programmatic activities
chapter seeking more than US$500K other organization (non-chapter) seeking more than US$500K individual seeking more than US$500K chapter seeking US$100-500K other organization (non-chapter) seeking US$100-500K individual seeking US$100-500K chapter seeking less than US$100K other organization (non-chapter) seeking less than US$100K individual seeking less than US$100K
financial Track record for financial controls and standards
Current financial controls and standards
local laws Track record of compliance with local laws governing your type of organization
Current compliance with local laws governing your type of organization
spending Track record of spending funds effectively
Current capacity to spend funds effectively
international Willingness to transfer an appropriate amount of the funding to be used internationally
Legal ability to transfer an appropriate amount of the funding to be used internationally
reporting Track record of timely reporting (on activities, financial status, spending)
Willingness to commit to timely reporting in future (activities, financial status, spending)
strategy Assessment of the strategic value (or likely impact) of the plans, relative to other funding requests