Charities sometimes favor the work they believe to be popular with donors over the work they believe would be more useful. Specifically, I’m thinking of monitoring and evaluation. By designating money for unpopular but useful tasks, you encourage them to better fund it. Before doing this, I would talk to the organizations you’re considering funding and find out what unsexy projects they would like to fund more. Then decide if you think they’re worth funding.
Charities sometimes favor the work they believe to be popular with donors over the work they believe would be more useful. Specifically, I’m thinking of monitoring and evaluation. By designating money for unpopular but useful tasks, you encourage them to better fund it. Before doing this, I would talk to the organizations you’re considering funding and find out what unsexy projects they would like to fund more. Then decide if you think they’re worth funding.