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Grant Unit Day 3: Solutions

Dr. Will Kurlinkus
University of Oklahoma
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Program Design: Pre-Planning
1. Good program
designs are geared
towards local
assets/resources.
 Who will your workers
be? Who already wants
to help?
 What resources (space,
people, money, time,
equipment) do you
already have for free
that you can contribute
to the project?
 What experts do you
have that can work with
you?
 Who are your
collaborators?
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Program Design: Pre-Planning
1. Good program designs are geared
towards concrete long-term goals.
Feasible objectives are S.M.A.R.T
 Goals are descriptive long-term big
picture hopes (recruit more women  Specific: Local, nuanced, related to our
to stem, make more hospital specific environ
workplaces for women in STEM).
 Measurable: where are we now? Where
2. Good program designs are well- will we be after your intervention. What
researched. can be quantified?
 Demonstrate what has worked in the
past, what has failed, and how you  Attainable: Why will this work? Show me
are learning from those things. it will work before you do the program.
(you’re required to map 4 solutions
people have tried)  Relevant: kairos, timely, newsworthy

3. Program designs result in concrete  Time Bound: what is the timeline of

objectives. measurable outcomes? When will you
 Objectives are quantifiable start, when will you conclude?
outcomes that you hope to reach by
the end of your program. (We hope
to give classroom presentations to
every public school in Norman. We
hope to have a 5% increase in local
female applicants to OU by 2020).
Objectives also are spread
throughout your timeline.
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Strategies: The Things You’ll
Actually Do
 Look at your pre-planning stages (especially your resources and
objectives).
 What will you need to do to actually do to result in these changes?
 Strategies usually have plans (big steps like giving classroom
presentations on women in STEM) and sub-plans (Who will give the
presentations? What will the content/activities be? Who will plan the
presentations? How long will they be?)
o What other sub-planning questions could we ask about planning
a classroom presentation?

 Good strategies are based in proven research (things that have

been shown to work in the past).

 Remember to make sure you keep a running list or resources

(the things that you need to accomplish your activity) in
order to use it in your budget.