What to Ask and How to Ask It
Invite respondents to step into your shoes. It’s sometimes useful to ask people working in the field to help you think through funding priorities, given limited resources. As one funder observed, “The conversation changed the minute I said to them, well, what if you had only this amount of money and you had to choose? Would you equally allocate the money across those 50 things you’ve listed, or would you pick and choose among them?”
Takeaways are critical, bite-sized resources either excerpted from our guides or written by Candid Learning for Funders using the guide's research data or themes post-publication. Attribution is given if the takeaway is a quotation.
This takeaway was derived from Scanning the Landscape 2.0.
