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Interview: Marnie Webb on NetSquared's experience with public participation in grantmaking

Eric: Why not just have experts help develop ideas and directly fund them?

Marnie: There are many people — universities, foundations, private individuals — who find experts, give them resources to develop amazing and elegant solutions and fund them. That’s a model that has been around for a long time and, like any model, it has its strengths and weaknesses.

We wanted to do something different with NetSquared.