Kari Aanestad: Equity, Honesty, and #FixTheForm
#FixTheForm is a grassroots international movement to identify and fix the worst elements of funding application forms that waste time and money. By surveying more than 500 grant seekers across 9 countries, #FixTheForm has gathered comprehensive data on the grant seeker experience.
The sixth episode of Impact Audio features Kari Aanestad, co-founder of #FixTheForm and associate director at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits. She shares insights that can help grantmakers across the philanthropic sector improve processes and make a real impact.
Listen to learn about:
- The top three pain points for grant applicants, by a landslide
- Grantadvisor.org and the origins of #FixTheForm
- Takeaways from the survey of more than 500 grant seekers (65% with at least 8 years experience)
- The potential limits of demographic data collection
- Criticisms of (and future goals for) the movement
Drawn from a longer conversation about #FixTheForm, these excerpts include great suggestions for reducing grantee burden in the service of equity. We hope you enjoy listening.
Kari Aanestad is the associate director at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, where she advances the mission and work of MCN and Minnesota’s nonprofit sector through strategic visioning, fundraising, relationship development, sector research, and education. As a member of MCN’s leadership team, Kari provides strategic direction and input on the organization’s trajectory, evolution, opportunities, and partnerships, as well as supports the development of other fundraising professionals throughout Minnesota through in-person and online trainings on program evaluation. As a nonprofit fundraising professional with nearly a decade of experience, Kari also provides leadership to GrantAdvisor.org, a strategic initiative launched in partnership between MCN, California Association of Nonprofits, and Great Nonprofits. She is a co-founder of #FixTheForm.
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