Funding Challenges: Navigating Impact vs. Numbers in Micro Organizations

Navigating funding applications, especially as a micro organization, evokes a love-hate dynamic. Is anyone else in a similar headspace?!

One challenge is meeting funders' expectations—demonstrating responsible use of funds but often confined to their terms. While quantitative data reports dominate, they fall short of portraying the real impact. 📊

Numbers can't capture the profound stories or small life shifts. They don't showcase how offering a young person a weekly safe space for 12 weeks fosters nervous system regulation, builds healthy adult-child relationships, and more.

Funders often prefer quantity, like 12 individuals having one session each for 12 weeks, prioritizing a higher impact count over deep, sustainable change in a single person.

Despite life's uncontrollable factors affecting young people, we're stuck in a numbers game with their lives. 🌱

How do we offer a high-quality accessible therapy service for young people when we’re so focused on getting numerical results?

For small organizations, the struggle is real—demonstrating authentic impact amidst a numbers-centric system, especially when larger entities may manipulate data (more on this later) 👀

Why force an inherently human experience into a digitalized system? 🤖

At Wired Therapy, we persist in prioritizing quality over quantity, advocating for young people to receive an authentic therapeutic service. 🤎

We’ll continue to find a balance of offering creative therapy options in a sustainable and ethical way for the youth community!