{"id":442,"date":"2018-12-05T10:25:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T10:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/impact.mcf.org.uk\/2018\/?p=442"},"modified":"2018-12-07T16:34:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T16:34:25","slug":"johns-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impact.mcf.org.uk\/2018\/2018\/12\/johns-story\/","title":{"rendered":"John\u2019s story"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\u201cThe MCF Community Awards provided a unique opportunity for us to devise a new way to engage directly with our supporters by giving them a real say in where to distribute grants to charities supporting their local communities.<\/h3>\n<p>As a grant-maker we sometimes have to make assumptions about what freemasons would want us to do on their behalf, and I\u2019m confident we usually get that right, but to put the decision-making in the hands of local freemasons when asking them to choose the charities took this a step further.<\/p>\n<p>We then took it further still by giving the general public the final decision for which charity received a particular sized grant.\u00a0 I remember unexpectedly being asked by our Chairman how many votes I thought we would get, and boldly claimed an optimistic 50,000 although I had no idea.\u00a0 In the end, we received 177,801 votes from people across England and Wales \u2013 87% of which were from members of the public. 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