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Grant Unit Day 3: Solutions

Dr. Will Kurlinkus
University of Oklahoma
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Describe Your Problem
5 Sentence Statement of Need
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Outline a solution for me
6 Bulleted things that your program will do to solve the problem.
Try to be specific.
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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?
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Program Design: Pre-Planning
1. Good program designs are geared
towards concrete long-term goals.
Goals are descriptive long-term big
picture hopes (recruit more women
to stem, make more hospital
workplaces for women in STEM).
2. Good program designs are well-
researched.
Demonstrate what has worked in the
past, what has failed, and how you
are learning from those things.
(youre required to describe 3 other
solutions people have tried)
3. Program designs result in concrete
objectives.
Objectives are quantifiable
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).
Feasible objectives are S.M.A.R.T
Specific: Secure the closure of
wastewater injection wells that
cause earthquakes in OK.
Measurable: This adds up to the
closure of 5,000 wastewater
injection wells.
Attainable: Only wells within a
100-mile radius of areas where
more than 100 earthquakes have
originated in the last 3 years.
Relevant: Earthquakes have
increased by 8,000 annually over
the last three years.
Time Bound: Half will be shut
down by the end of 2017 and all
wells closed by the end of 2018.
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Strategies: The Things Youll
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.