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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.
I am looking to assemble a small volunteer jury to review applications and select three projects. I had initially planned to select the projects myself, but I have received some applications from people whom I know personally, which raises an obvious conflict of interest. The jury will be blind — the applicants’ names and contact information will not be visible to the jury, and the jury will be anonymous until after the grant results are announced.
I expect that adjudication could be completed within a few hours, and it would need to take place between Tuesday, November 24th and Monday, December 1st. Location will be determined shortly, but will be in downtown Toronto. Compensation can be provided in the form of beer, snacks, buttons and acknowledgments on the website and in the catalogue.
If you’re interested in being on the jury, email me and tell me why. I don’t expect potential jury members to have any jury experience in particular, but I am looking for people who understand the tinygrants project and are interested in the type of work it encourages.
I look forward to hearing from you!
This entry was written by , posted on November 19, 2009 at 2:11 PM, filed under News and tagged jury, volunteers. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
