Roman

This week our class had one of the most heated discussions thus far this year. Now we're in the nitty gritty, and we're really trying to figure how to come to terms as a class and figure out where we really want our money to go.

We came into class on Thursday with 5 organizations, which we quickly reduced to four. As a class we felt the eliminated organization did not put much emphasis on education, which is a focus of our mission statement.

As far as the other nonprofits go, we had some clear favorites, and a few organizations where only a handful of us believe should receive the grant money. However that does not mean we are done by a long shot. We still haven’t figured out how we will finally decide, and if we do decide to do a full unanimous decision, next week could really turn ugly. I just don’t want any of us to get too locked into our one set organization and ignore all other options. We can all agree that each organization that we thus far narrowed it down to has a lot of positives and we should all be pleased with however the money is divvied up.

Speaking of diving it up, Corey had an interesting idea in that we split the money and do multiple grants. This was an idea we had talked about earlier in the semester, and we ultimately decided to do one single grant. Originally I liked the single grant idea, but if we somehow can’t decide how to choose, multiple grants might not be such a bad idea, I think its something we should consider next week on Thursday if we haven’t chosen a recipient on Tuesday.