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Thank you for taking the time to submit a review. The experiences and ideas you share will contribute to a healthy dialogue and a better understanding of the challenges facing social impact organisations and philanthropy.

Please choose one experience or interaction with this funder to review. (If you have multiple experiences with this funder that you would like to review, please submit a separate review for each.)

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What is your relationship with the funder for this experience?**

Current or former grantee

Applied and not funded

Grant currently pending

Did not apply

If you were funded, tell us the outcome (for current/former grantees)*

Funded for amount requested

Funded for greater amount

Funded for lesser amount

Other

What year was this experience?**

Advice to a colleague**

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How many hours did your grant application take?*

How much funding did you apply for in total? This will help us better understand if the length and detail of the application process is fair.

How would you rate this funder's accessibility?**

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When answering this question please think about the following: Was it easy to get in contact with the grantmaker? Are the funder's guidelines or processes easily understood or appreciated? If there is an online application process, is it easy to use and does it provide appropriate options to describe your organisation?

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How successfully do you think this funder is accomplishing its goals as a funder?

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Tell us one thing that this funder does really well

If you had one piece of advice to give to this funder (about grantmaking or anything else), what would it be?

How was your relationship with the funder overall?

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Negative relationship phrases

Inadvertently exerts negative influence in the field

Doesn't understand nonprofits and issues

Difficult to work with

Culturally incompetent

Bureaucratic

Risk averse

Unresponsive

Unfriendly

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Is there anything else that'd be useful for others to know to understand this funder?

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