9 Dec
2024
9 Dec
'24
5:24 p.m.
Hey Kim,
Thanks for the update!
What kind of evaluation are you thinking about for The Trans Dimension, Tech Hub or
Resilience Web?
I ask because we do various eval stuff at fractals from more user research and service
design that’s during the design and implementation, over to evaluation, monitoring and
learning of services that are running.
Also being new I’m out the loop on the tech/services :)
Cheers,
Oliver
On Dec 9, 2024 at 4:57 PM, <Kim Foale (mailto:kim@gfsc.studio)> wrote:
Heya all,
So me and stef just met the lottery and they were really nice. Bottom line is acceptance
rate atm is about 3% so if something is not hitting all the criteria highly it's not
getting funded.
While they liked it overall, our two weaknesses were:
- Scaling plan -- they admitted they didnt really get it but also wanted far more
specifics (what groups / what areas of the country / how many people / etc)
- Impact -- this is a million quid what do we get for it? This has long been where we
struggle -- "its important that information exists" isnt quite enough for the
lottery -- they want that social impact even while acknowledging the bullshittness that
can be (again - 3% acceptance).
They also said that the growing great ideas framework we did stuff under previously was a
different CEO and a different strategy -- so including all that was prob a waste of word
count, lol. Imagine a funder sticking to a consistent strategy for more than 3 years.
Next steps are me and Stef are gonna meet next week, go through all the fieldwork notes
and think about how we can represent impact and maybe try and get some funding just to
write that all up. If anyone has a resource here to do an evaluation that would be great
-- for example, could someone do an external evaluation of The Trans Dimension, Tech Hub
or Resiliance Web?
In general it sounds like we deffo impressed them and its worth reapplying -- but we are
doing it from scratch again now. So down but not out and we will deffo be pursing it.
Kim
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