Funded Proposals
Fund 7 Proposals
Contact guidelines
Email sent 4th March 2022
Dear Challenge Teams, and Fund7 projects, Catalyst has now onboarded all of the Fund7 funded projects and the first payment run is taking place soon. Each Challenge Team is being provided a contact sheet of all the funded-project teams in each Challenge cohort. Each funded project in a Challenge cohort is also BCC’d in this email so that everyone is aware of this effort. From this point, Challenge Teams should make contact with the funded projects and coordinate as per the Challenge Team deliverables, to provide a point of contact to help funded project teams and to provide an ongoing retrospective on how each challenge is performing. How Challenge Teams coordinate this is up to each group. However, a guideline framework of expectation could be:
Challenge Teams create a regular touchpoint with the Challenge funded-projects
Challenge Teams may wish to divide the cohort between them, (1 Challenge Team member per 4 projects for example)
Decide which day, hour, formats to meet and communicate (zoom, telegram, slack/huddle, discord server)
Provide more than a text chat only - for example, “office hours” to meet once a month, a chance for each project to give a short update (e.g. 4X 20 min slots per month feels right for 1 Challenge Team member working with 4 projects)
Funded projects give a short presentation of work to date and Challenge Team member feeds back. Anything they can help guide towards (KPIs for example)?
Each 1:1 meeting should be private, this intimacy will be better for sharing issues
Challenge Teams are supporting roles more like mentors, not a manager or auditor
Challenge Teams can provide a summary of outcomes to the Catalyst Community
This is up to Challenge Teams to decide the format
Town Hall presentations could be great, so could a written report, so could a video. It's up to you.
Why this approach? Well honestly, we don’t know what the best format is! This pilot will hopefully lead to lessons learned and converge on a happy-path format for future Challenge Teams to follow.
As much as possible Challenge Teams and Funded-projects should be self-sufficient
Catalyst will review the purpose of bi-weekly Coordinator meetings during this pilot.
We will be holding a Challenge Teams roundtable in the next fortnight, so we can get a sense of how the initiative is going. Please remember this is still a pilot, so things may break!
The above information has also been included in this Challenge Teams document. You can also find Challenge Team members in this Telegram chat as an additional contact option.
Best of luck on these exciting next steps of innovative collaboration together.
The Catalyst Team
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