When Senior Grantmaker Time Is the Bottleneck
For many grantmakers, the bottleneck is not the amount of funding they can give out, nor is it the state of NGOs in the space.
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Getting good enough (imperfect, but still analytically and systematically considered) answers to relevant life and philanthropy questions.
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