Thanks for the input @auryn ! A clarifying question:
When you say designing and experimenting with solutions, do you mean own the implementation of the strategy? Do you see it as solely owning the strategy? For example, are members in the community development council proposing initiatives such as region specific community growth and executing, but not opening proposals to the wider community? Feel free to utilize your own examples. I’m trying to understand how you are differentiating away from the “grants committee” model.
For clarity on the current design: Councils receive a budget cap and strategy definition. They have flexibility for creating initiatives for getting contributions, but also responsible for the success of those initiatives. For example, they can create initiatives in the form of a set of RFPs in which case they are doing both the design and reviewing proposals like “a grants committee”, and/or design an incubator program that they are running.