Once a month, we sit down at Chive Charities for a difficult meeting. The task ahead of us is to narrow the field of potential grant recipients down from 45 to 15. The next two hours is as painful as it is exhilarating. The prospect of changing so many lives is palpable in the room, but the thought of saying “sorry not this time” looms equally as large. We only have the money and bandwidth to help 15 recipients. And so we dive in.
The first hour we spend getting the list down to about 20. The second hour is “the bubble,” in which we must make some hard decisions. No matter the outcome, I’m always conflicted. Did we get it right? Did we miss an outlier in the group who deserved it and didn’t get in this round? The answer has to be yes, I tell myself, we are not perfect. You can only take all the information at hand and call the play.
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