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Tobias -It's not a penasalt sight for me to watch the bottom 50% of every leaderboard either. But there are other, brighter angles from which to see the phenomenon:1. We've done something like 18 open challenges since 2008. The % of orgs with no donations at the end has never changed (from 55-65%). It's probably a hard-wired fact of human nature.Why? Because I've talked to the folks at NANOWRIMO.ORG (my all time favorite organization as a beneficiary ). Their analytics gal finds the same thing! The percentage of writers that are losers each year in the sense they promise to write a book in one month and fail to write a single word is about the same as orgs that try to get their first donation. Setting intentions is like that. (Especially astounding when any of these orgs could give themselves one donation to move into the top 50%, and anyone can log just 1 word in nanowrimo but they don't!)2. I'm amazed as I travel East Africa at the number of people from organizations that never even make it into an open challenge, that remain dedicated and committed to one day winning. And I've met plenty that believe they have put in 3 hours a day for 2 weeks in a challenge and gotten nothing. They remain positive, but also baffled by their lack of success. It invariably turns out that putting in the hours during the challenge isn't the same as simply asking friends how have you been? when they aren't trying to cash-in, so to speak. Building relationships (and trust) is a 365-days a year activity. We need NGOs run by people who take the time to think about friends all year long. The surprise successes I've met are people who have a knack for caring about others and showing it not just caring about the cause of whatever the NGO is trying to do.3. As a teacher and a scientist, I believe that feedback is learning. Failing a test teaches you more. We are all better off struggling from time to time. Tough (behavior change) lessons come only through meeting challenges.