Is Our Funding Too Short-Term?

Do your funding cycles (annual budgets, grant periods) end before your programs can demonstrate meaningful outcomes?

Are you frequently required to show 'impact' on timescales that don't match the actual pace of change in your mission area?

Do you find yourselves redesigning or pivoting programs to fit funder timelines rather than mission needs?

Does the thing you have to renew — equipment, facilities, accreditation, trained people — come due on an interval that has nothing to do with the interval on which your funding arrives?

When capital does arrive, does it tend to arrive after the point in the cycle where it was needed rather than before it?