What We Do
Community Currency
brings your target community into the grantmaking process to support the evaluation, selection, and monitoring of the best grantees
In one simple package
How it works
Over 6 - 8 weeks our team will,
Recruit
Recruit community members with direct experience of your relevant problem
Prepare
Prepare them on process of evaluating prospective grantees
Evaluate
Facilitate information, presentations, and discussions to inform the community’s evaluation and selection of the best grantee.
Community Insights
Prepare actionable insights for future programming
Monitor
Facilitate community monitoring of selected grantee post-award
Leading to grantees that are driving greater impact while aligning with community needs.
Recruit
We work with your team to define your “target community” including,
Problem
Geography
Demographics
We source a representative group of 15 - 20 community members with direct experience of the relevant problem based on the above definition.
Prepare
We facilitate 3 sessions over 3 weeks. The first is our introduction and preparation session.
During the session we will prepare participants on,
The grant making process
Your evaluation criteria
How to review the grantee’s information effectively
Practice evaluating sample grantees
Evaluate
During our second session, our team will facilitate information, presentations, and discussions to inform the community’s evaluation including,
Symptoms and causes of the problem
Current evidence on approaches
Grantee information
Expert Q&A
Grantee presentations and Q&A
Open discussion and deliberation
Initial evaluations
Generate Community Insights
Throughout the sessions, our team will be capturing insights from the open discussions and the final evaluations including,
Community needs
Priorities for future programming
Insights from evaluations of all grantees
Feedback on evaluation criteria and approach
Much more!
Select
In our third session, our team will facilitate the final evaluation and selection of the grantee including,
Facilitated discussion about key takeaways from previous session
Opportunity to update and finalize evaluations / scoring
Submit their expectations for progress in 6 months
Next steps for monitoring
Closing
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Your first time using our service is at cost!
No labor or overhead costs.
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Monitor
If desired, you can request a final monitoring session ~6-months after the award.
In it participants will,
Review their expectations for the grantee’s progress
Review early reporting from the awardee
Hear directly from the awardee on progress
Discuss the progress against expectations
Submit a final evaluation and satisfaction rating of the grantee’s progress