Rod Love on LinkedIn: #nonprofit #nonprofits #nonprofitleadership (original) (raw)
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CEO at CSG Tech Solutions ★ President, Florida Economic Consortium (Not-For-Profit) ★ Former Orange County Commissioner ★ Legislative Government Affairs Consultant ★ Radio Host
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Nonprofits can’t thrive without fair evaluations. Recently, Florida's 5th largest local government introduced a new RFP process to evaluate nonprofits for the Youth Offender Re-Entry Program, through the Orange County Citizens' Commission for Children. But why are some applicants missing out on crucial scores? For instance, Business A is working tirelessly to help socially, and economically at-risk youth become tomorrow's leaders. However, due to inconsistencies in the evaluation process, they received scores based on varying numbers of reviewers. This isn’t just a minor oversight—it’s a systemic issue within the Orange County Citizens' Commission for Children's evaluation framework. This is the difference between securing funding and missing out. It’s the difference between expanding their impact or scaling back. How can this be fair? When an organization like Business A is judged, every score counts. Yet, their efforts are being overshadowed by a process that allows some applicants to have more reviewers than others. Here's why this is a big problem: • Without consistent evaluations, nonprofits miss crucial funding. • An uneven number of reviewers doesn’t reflect the full impact of their work. • Nonprofits can’t improve if they aren’t fairly assessed. Nonprofits working in youth re-entry and education are already stretched thin. They lack the time and resources to fight for a fair, unbiased evaluation. When they don’t get that, the youth they serve lose out. Think about this: • A youth re-entry program can’t thrive without funding. • An education program can’t expand without full evaluations. • A nonprofit can’t grow if its efforts aren’t accurately measured. The stakes are too high for these organizations to be left in the dark. Inconsistent scores mean missing opportunities for the youth who need them the most. How do we fix this? Here’s what we need: Stricter Guidelines: ↳Ensure every applicant is fully and fairly evaluated, with a consistent number of reviewers. Accountability: ↳The Orange County Citizens' Commission for Children should ensure that the system is set up for fairness and consistency in scoring. Transparency: ↳Organizations should know how many reviewers evaluated them and understand any discrepancies in the process. If we don’t address these gaps, nonprofits will continue to miss out on the funding they need. And that hurts everyone—the organizations, the communities, and the youth they serve. It's time for change. Nonprofits can’t thrive when their evaluations are incomplete. Youth programs can’t grow when funding is missed. We need to ensure every organization gets a full and fair assessment, free from technicalities or oversight. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤? Rod Love, CEO of CSG Tech Solutions President of Florida Economic Consortium #nonprofit #nonprofits #nonprofitleadership
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