Funding Request
Please find below the procedure for acquiring funding from the Round Table of Durban.
Step 1:
An initial stage to vet the basics of the organisation requiring funding. This is done via the below link
Step 2:
This is a detailed summary of the organisation which is requiring funding. This form is only to be completed by candidates that have successfully completed step 1 above and have been asked to proceed to step 2.
Step 3:
All successful round 2 applicants will progress to an interview with a Round Table Panel. They will be sent an email with a google calendar invite to a Round Table panel interview. The general questions we will seek to answer are:
- What does the organization do?
- How many different kinds of programs does it run?
- For each of these programs, what exactly is it that the organisation does?
- If it runs more than one program, why is that?
- How cost effective is each program area?
- Is the charity focused on the most important causes? Round Table Durban 2
- How cost effective does the evidence suggest the program could be?
- How robust is the evidence behind the program?
- What is the evidence behind the programs that the charity runs?
- Are there trails showing that the program is effective?
- Does the charity rigorously monitor and evaluate the success of its programs?
- How well is each program implemented?
- Do the leaders of the organization have demonstrated success in other areas?
- Is the charity highly transparent?
- Does it acknowledge mistakes that it has made in the past?
- What are the alternative charities to give to?
- Are there good reasons for supposing that this charity is better than others?
- Does the charity need additional funds?
- What would additional funding be used to do?
- Why haven’t other donors already funded the charity to the point it can use extramoney?