But where authorities were previously grant givers, now they are becoming community facilitators.
The standards also introduce training as mandatory for grant givers – without providing any.
Beren Aldridge, Growing Well's manager and volunteering co-ordinator, and the charity's main fundraiser, says most of his fundraising work involves bidding to trusts and grant givers.
Just as webheads demolished old business models, Pierre and Pam Omidyar strive to demolish old philanthropic models in favor of new ones that deliver on that very elusive goal of all grant givers, accountability.
Instead, the patent holder should simply publish terms and grant non-exclusive licences to everyone willing to accept them, unless it can justify to the grant-giver why exclusivity is necessary.Indeed, a backlash has already started.
The Emirates Foundation now has six simple key performance indicators and has also changed its focus from being a grant-giver to hundreds of groups across multiple areas, to focus on one core issue – youth in the United Arab Emirates – with all programmes implemented in-house.
Journals should allocate space for "uninteresting" work, and grant-givers should set aside money to pay for it.
One idea, floated by the Economist, is that "Journals should allocate space for 'uninteresting' work, and grant-givers should set aside money to pay for it".
But finally, who cares? "The War That Made America" got its financing from various foundations and grant-givers, including the National Endowment for the Humanities.
In return, all grant-givers, including the Arts Council, English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund, would be expected to spend no more than 5% of their budget on administration costs.
Though the prize money was a small part of the total needed, it came at exactly the right moment - raising staff morale and bolstering the group's credibility with other grant-givers, who have awarded some £1.5m in the past five years.
