A funding landscape that lists funders who once expressed interest is a wish list. WorldbyFlow lists only funders with documented activity, amounts verbatim or marked undisclosed, and treats authorized-but-unfunded as a first-class status, so the landscape you bring to the board shows where the money actually is.
Written for Makes grants and monitors a funding landscape at a foundation.·Runs in the Policy domain
A program officer manages a portfolio and reads a landscape at the same time. The scans here are for the landscape: who is funding the field and how much is disclosed, how the public money is structured and where it is in the cycle, who the players are in a funding area, a dossier on the agency that co-funds your grantees, and the issue itself read before the theory of change.
Every funder with documented activity, amounts verbatim or marked undisclosed, and authorized-but-unfunded as its own status. The landscape, kept to what is on the record.
A public program's money tagged by status through the cycle. Where the government side of your field is really funded and where it is only authorized.
Who holds leverage in a funding area, drawn from documented positions and activity. The map before the convening.
The agency that co-funds or regulates your field: authority, people, documented positions, calendar.
The problem read before the theory of change: how it is measured, who it falls on, what is known and disputed about its causes.
The order matters. The first read gives you the structure; the next ones fill the parts that are hardest to source by hand.
You know this landscape. Check whether it lists only funders with documented activity and marks the undisclosed amounts as undisclosed.
Where the government money is in the cycle. Authorized-but-unfunded is the status that changes a strategy.
Who holds leverage in the field, from the record. The seating chart with sources.
Export the landscape as a PDF for the docket, or share it as a page trustees can open ahead of the meeting.
Every figure and quote links to where it came from. A claim the scan could not source is marked as such rather than dressed up.
Export the landscape as a PDF for the board docket, or share it as a page grantees and trustees can open with every amount sourced.
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