Over 100 foundations have shared their grant application form with TAG for analysis and the results are in! To what extent are grantmakers asking similar questions in a variety of ways? What core set of questions are common? Is our commonality cause for increased streamlining or even a common application? Join this webinar interview with data scientist Kwame Porter Robinson as he shares findings from similarity analysis of the "100 Forms in 100 Days" campaign by TAG and GrantAdvisor.
Shane Ward from Candid and Michael Thatcher from Charity Navigator will join us to discuss the implications of these findings for the sector.
A conversation with:
- Shane Ward, Senior Director of Data and Solutions, Candid
- Kari Aanestad, Co-Director of Grantadvisor.org, Director of Advancement, Minnesota Council on Nonprofits
- Kwame Porter Robinson, Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Michigan
- Michael Thatcher, CEO of Charity Navigator
Facilitated by Chantal Forster, Executive Director, Technology Association of Grantmakers
About the "100 Forms in 100 Days" Campaign
From April to July, 2021, the Technology Association of Grantmakers in conjunction with GrantAdvisor requested example grant applications from funders throughout North America and beyond. Over 100 foundations participated and can be found at http://blog.grantadvisor.org/reformer-community/. TAG consultant Kwame Porter Robinson analyzed the results using Google’s Universal Sentence Encoder similarity algorithm within a custom set of scripts published at Github.
The goal of the effort is to better understand the degree of likeness of grant applications and opportunities for greater collective impact.