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Full disclosure at the top: I’m a grant maker for over 20 years, first on the California Arts Council and then on the Orange County, California Children and Family Council for 17 years.
The California Arts Commission involves relatively small amounts of funds allocated by the state legislature. This is the mini national endowment for art.
In comparison Orange County’s “Props 10” committee, It is well known that tens of millions of dollars in cigarette tax revenues are distributed in some way, specifically targeting the task, which is determined by the language of the voter-approved initiative, “make children 0-5 and their families healthy and Their family is healthy and ready to learn “By the time they start kindergarten.
Doge reveals over 4 million government credit cards responsible for 90 million transactions
California voters passed Proposal 10 in 1998. As a result, 20% of the funds raised were divided into 10 committees in the state and 80% were allocated to 58 county committees. 80% of the per capita distribution is per capita, so Los Angeles certainly gets the most profit, but Orange County receives a large portion of it every year.
Elon Musk leads the government’s Ministry of Efficiency and needs to target the temptation of grant makers. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Every county commission must have a majority of members of the private sector. I raised my hand to be one of the five private sector specialists on our Nine Commissions because that was real money and what I wanted to say is how to spend it.
“Work” requires a monthly meeting of $100 per meeting, no benefits or pensions. (I’m probably one of the few people under the California State University Political Practice Act, who hasn’t accumulated pensions for more than twenty years and has lost money at every meeting.) Among the great professionals, this is the old school public services.
I think at least the Orange County board did a great job – blocking and addressing public health stuff like paying for school nurses, supporting new moms with limited means, etc. We reviewed ourselves and brought Bainbridge strategic consultation over 10 years to investigate our past work and our future plans and to propose greater efficiency. The staff is very small. We hire contractors as much as possible. We track pennies.
As long as I can do math, I’m happy to stay in the commission, but I left California in 2016 for Virginia and of course quit. I’m following it from afar. It’s still doing well because it’s meant to resist three great temptations from grantmakers.
The first temptation is that once you get a grant, don’t check the effectiveness of the grant. If the results are not tracked and the performance cannot be measured, then this is a good bet they are not worth reaching. Bainbridge provides the outside world, but from day one, the focus has been on data-based results. If the program does not “work”, it disappears. The first temptation for grantmakers is to never look at the outcome of previous spending. If Doge is doing it At least that’s good.
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The second temptation is for your friends. We never got close to this line because California’s laws are very strict and self-interaction is very strict, and nine members never included any shy people. So far, it is more important: All grants are awarded at public meetings. All of this is explained in the materials provided to the public. Grant makes it never to be done in half light, let alone in the darkness.
The Governor should ask Who decides to reward money and the person watching. The EPA scandal seems to be the opposite approach. If you haven’t seen it, watch the “Top the Gold Bars from the Titanic” video by administrator Lee Zeldin. After the election, rushing to the $20 billion gate is the secret to providing flight funds to friends.
I raised my hand to be one of the five private sector specialists on our Nine Commissions because that was real money and what I wanted to say is how to spend it.
Finally, most obvious, the last temptation of grant makers is self-replenishment. Needless to say, grant makers should never donate money to themselves or their family or to the organizations they expect to work for. If Doge finds that federal grants provide the recipient with the door and the grantmaker ends up working… then Doge should call Attorney General Pam Bondi. That’s not “waste, fraud and abuse”. That could be a crime.
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The end result of Doge is hard to predict, but its shining light may hopefully play a role in grants and other discretionary funds from federal agencies. Reviewing the recipients and rules for the qualifications to ensure they understand them clearly, it is easy to explain to the applicant and to explain them transparently that they are long overdue. There is no “small grant”. Each grant granted to “A” is a grant to “B”. It sounds like almost certainly every grant is.
The man who digs deeper. Good grant makers will not need to be afraid or hide.
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