Beyond the Rubric: Designing Grant Panels for Democratic Consensus with the Jerome Foundation
When grant review panels overly rely on numerical scores, the selection process devolves into a math exercise rather than evaluating true mission alignment.
Join Andrea Brown, Grants and Operations Manager at the Jerome Foundation, as she shares her experience creating a review framework that prioritizes democratic consensus over the numbers game. You’ll learn how to overhaul your review panel process to remove administrative noise, front-load hard decisions, and foster more meaningful dialogue and values-driven decision-making.
Andrea Brown joined the Jerome Foundation in 2016, where she is now Grants and Operations Manager. She came to the Jerome Foundation after five years at the Walker Art Center, where she was Associate Director of Strategic Marketing. She worked in the New York office of the American Academy in Berlin before taking a 7-year detour into software at Marketing Bridge/Gage Marketing where she was Lead Account Supervisor. Andrea has a B.A. in American Studies from Smith College.
Natalya Taylor is the Director of Product Marketing at Submittable. She leads go-to-market strategy, messaging, and execution for multiple segments across the product suite and helps ensure the thousands of Submittable customers stay informed, get a ton of value, and meet their goals. She received her BA in History from the University of California, Berkeley. Originally from Oakland, California, Natalya currently lives in Missoula, Montana, where she loves spending time in the mountains and in her garden.