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I thought I would make the jury process as transparent as possible and as soon as I could. Here’s how it goes:
The jury is composed of four individuals, all of whom work in or are involved in the arts in some way. They are the first four people who volunteered to be on the jury, and their professional experience is relevant to the task at hand. Their bio information will be available after the grant recipients are announced. The jury members will work independently to ’score’ each application (more on this coming up); there will be no meeting or in-person deliberations. The scores will be tallied, and the strongest projects will emerge at the top, and the top three projects will be funded.
As for the scoring: there are six criteria (that I determined in consultation with others) that will be scored out of ten for each project. They are:
These criteria are weighted according to what I feel is most important to the tinygrants project. The jury knows that the criteria are weighted, but do not know what the weight scheme is. Once I receive the scoring packages on November 30th, the math will be worked out by a bonafide math whiz (i.e., not me,) and the top projects will be established.
This scoring method is effective should I receive enough donations to be able to fund more projects — I can continue to fund projects as they are ranked without having to reconvene a jury that has already generously donated their time and effort.
I feel that this is a fair–though perhaps unconventional–process. What do you think?
As it stands, the grant recipients will be notified on Monday, December 1, 2009, announcements will follow shortly. If you’d like to hear the news as it’s published, subscribe to email announcements (subscribers will be first to hear!), add tinygrants.ca to your RSS reader, join the Facebook group or follow tinygrants on Twitter. Or, stay tuned to the website, of course.
This entry was written by , posted on November 24, 2009 at 11:44 PM, filed under Process and tagged application, deliberations, grants, jury, Projects. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Thank you to everyone who submitted an application to tinygrants! I am overwhelmed by the number of applications received. Grant results will be announced on December 1st; successful applicants will be notified via email. If you haven’t already, please consider filling out this brief and anonymous survey about the application. Your feedback is greatly appreciated.
This entry was written by , posted on November 23, 2009 at 1:40 PM, filed under Progress and tagged application, survey. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
I can’t believe how quickly the last six weeks have flown by, but here we are — the deadline for applications is TOMORROW. Applications should be submitted by email no later than 11:59 PM on Sunday, November 22, 2009. Click here to read more about applying and to download an application.
This entry was written by , posted on November 21, 2009 at 9:25 AM, filed under News and tagged application, deadline. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
