A no-cost STEM programme, written so a funder can assess it.

NextGen DouglasProgram Strategy & Grant Development

Grant readiness checklist

The challenge

ASSAP is described as a no-cost after-school and summer STEM and AI programme, covering mathematics, coding, robotics, data literacy, responsible AI and family support activities.

A programme like that is straightforward to describe and difficult to fund, because a funder does not buy the activity list. It funds a plan it can assess: what will be delivered, who is accountable, how it continues after the grant period, and how anyone will know whether it worked.

What we did and delivered

Work performed

  • Grant and programme-support materials.
  • Funding applications.
  • Sustainability planning for the period after initial funding.
  • Implementation planning.
  • Governance and risk management.
  • Measurement design.

Deliverables

  • An activity-to-outcome framework linking each programme activity to what it is intended to change.
  • An implementation roadmap with responsibilities.
  • Governance and risk material.
  • Application content for the funding routes pursued.

The outcome

We designed how the programme would be run, governed and measured, and wrote the applications to fund it.

That is a plan for measurement, not a set of student results. Those belong to ASSAP, and they will come from running the programme rather than from us.

Evidence: Our project records and the scope NextGen gave us. No student identities, no private programme records.

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