Earlier this month Albert at philanthropy blog, White Courtesy Telephone, did an entry on “Four Common Funder Misconceptions About Non-profits” and made a post along the same vein later in the month.
The entries offer an interesting, if not daunting, peek into the thought processes of funders. Albert encourages them to rethink their attitudes in terms of micromanaging non-profits, seeing their role as culling out the weak organizations, encouraging charities to merge and run themselves in a more business like manner.
Albert encourages funders to give applicants some slack when it comes to grading neatness.
“There’s a kind of mental trap that some grantmakers fall into. When we’re learning the ropes, we quickly realize there’s not enough money to go around for all the worthy applicants who approach us for funding…So we devise many little tests of nonprofit worthiness
