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A generic checklist tells you what to look at. A template tells you what matters, how much it matters, what good evidence looks like, and when to stop looking. The difference is the difference between a list of ingredients and a recipe.
Read articleThe specific risk with AI-generated content is not that it is poorly written. It is that it is often very well written in ways that mimic the markers of rigour without containing the substance of rigour.
Read articleThe phrase 'AI charity assessment' tends to produce one of two reactions from grant-makers. Both reactions are reasonable. Both miss the important point, which is that neither enthusiasm nor scepticism tells you how to do it.
Read articleTrustee evaluation practices vary more than most people in the sector like to admit. The question worth asking is not whether trustees are taking their responsibilities seriously, but whether the process they are using would produce the same recommendation twice.
Read articleMost grant decisions are made on incomplete evidence, and almost everyone who works in grant-making knows it. Evidence-based grant making is about using the evidence that exists systematically and being clear about what you know and do not know when you decide.
Read articleA grant assessment framework does not replace the discussion around the table. What it does is give the conversation somewhere to land, making sure that when trustees disagree about a charity, they are disagreeing about the same thing.
Read articleThe Charity Commission removed over 4,600 charities from the register in 2023 alone. In many cases, the warning signs were sitting in publicly available documents for years before the problems became visible. This checklist is a practical guide to finding them.
Read articleAssessing a charity consistently enough to compare it against others requires more than familiarity with the organisation. It requires a framework applied the same way every time. Here is what that looks like in practice.
Read articlecleargiving.io runs structured assessments for any registered UK charity, so your trustees can focus on the decision rather than the research.
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