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  "text": "---\ntitle: \"The Failure Commons\"\nnumber: 9\nstatement: \"What incentives would get charities to publish their failures, and what happens to their funding when they do?\"\nprogress: \"A shared failure registry with a meaningful sample of participating organizations, and data on their funding before and after disclosure.\"\nconditions: [\"silence-about-failure\"]\nstatus: open\nbounty: \"Unfunded. The Question Bounties program will attach prizes once it is funded.\"\n---\n\n## Why it matters\n\nThe [Silence About Failure](/diagnosis/silence-about-failure/) costs the field its most valuable data. If disclosure turns out to be rewarded, the incentive problem is smaller than people fear. If it’s punished, funders need to see that.\n\n## Where to start\n\nCharitology’s [Failure Archive](/record/failure-archive/) is the commons in seed form. Pair it with a funder pledge not to penalize honest disclosure, and measure what happens.\n",
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