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Committee debates fairness of scoring; proposes clearer budgets and applicant guidance
Summary
Committee members flagged a potential bias toward well-resourced organizations and proposed process changes — including bottoms-up budgets, clearer accomplishment statements, and reduced use of abbreviations — to make future scoring more equitable.
During the Buncombe County Strategic Partnerships grant discussion, several reviewers said professionally written applications benefited from clearer presentation and that the committee should adjust application guidance and scoring tools to compensate.
A recurring concern was whether reviewers should consider an applicant’s overall financial position when scoring a single-project request. Anne Flynn explicitly said she voted…
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