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1. Sample Youth Driven Programming Proposal
Purpose
Engage youth in your program to identify engaging, inspiring and meaningful programming that they want to do
this summer. For instance, have youth in your program been expressing an interest in a coding club? Or did you
offer a four-week theater arts club this school year and students expressed interest in wanting more arts
programming? This is a grant opportunity to build out a full coding or theater arts program to offer your students
this summer.
We encourage you to survey your students further about their interests and find out what students would really
like to participate in this summer. It is important that youth are invested and interested in the programming that
is available to them. For this proposal, please outline how you collected student input and clearly outline what
their programming interest is, proposed program implementation and desired outcomes for this grant proposal.
Budget Justification (for example of Theatre Arts programming)
• Direct Personnel
o Wages
▪ 3 H.S. / College staff x $20/10hr/week x 8 weeks = $4,800
▪ Guide student involvement in programming
▪ Maintain/Assess progress of programming
• BSB Curriculum – Homegrown Theatre, multiple plays
o FREE
• Supplies
o $2,000 for materials for plays, design sets, etc
▪ List Items separately
• Event—culminating events of play productions
o Printing costs for playbills, $100
o Bottled waters for attendees, $100
Total Cost: $7,000
Sample Budget
Budget Item Price for each Sample total Notes/URL
Total
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2. Sample Youth Driven Programming Proposal
Purpose
The Weikart Center partnered with the Neutral Zone‡ to develop the Youth Driven Space (YDS) project. YDS is
designed to support out of school-time programs that serve youth, implement a range of structures, and
strategies that foster 21st Century skill-building and meaningful civic engagement. Out of school time programs
that adopt the YDS model learn to utilize the actual operation of their organization as an opportunity to build
youth skills and increase participation and engagement. The time is right for an explicit and developmentally
appropriate approach to skill-building for older youth during OST given the drop off in participation that
programs face nationally as well as increasing recognition of the importance of workforce preparation
opportunities that prepare young peoplefor participation in today’s labor market.
YDS is designed to transform existing youth programs into youth driven spaces through four key areas:
1. Structural changes. A youth advisory council is established and meets regularly to make and offer
guidance on decisions about program offerings and organizational operation;
2. Changes to program design and implementation. Youth members take on facilitation and other
roles that adults typically take in a youth program, leading meetings and activities with their
peers;
3. Revisiting adult roles. Helping adults learn to build strong adult/youth partnerships is critical.
Adults in YDSdon’t simply step down and let youth lead, rather, they play an active supportive role
in helping youth be successful;
4. Building sustainability. Organizational changes are sustained by infusing YDS principles across the
organization, with attention to governance and mission statements and by establishing deliberate
supportacross administration, staff, and the broader community.
Our proposed program will address key areas 1 through 4. We foresee having steps 1-3 completed by the
fall of 2021. We also foresee our sustainability being positively impacted within one year of our project
implementation.
Source cited: http://cypq.org/yds
Budget Justification
• Direct Personnel
o Wages
▪ 3 H.S. / College staff x $10/20hr/week x 8 weeks = $4,800
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▪Guide student involvement in unit
▪Maintain/Assess progress of unit(s)
▪Assist instructors to guide student lessons / activities
• Equipment - Non-expendable
o $5,000 for materials
▪ List Items separately
• Supplies
o $4,000 for educational project materials
▪ List Items separately
• Training and Outreach
o Consult experts in fields defined by students for student and staff training
• Contract / Consulting
o List items separately
• Administrative
• Summary:
o $4,800 for 3 student leaders for 16 weeks
o $5,000 for materials and tools
o $4,000 for projects and activities
o $1,200 for consultation / planning
• Total = $15,000
Sample Budget
Budget Item Price for each Sample total Notes/URL
Total
Community Connections
• Contact your local high school and community colleges
• SkillsUSA - https://www.skillsusa.org/programs/high-school/
• Educators Rising, Nebraska http://www.educatorsrisingnebraska.org/
Educators Rising is transforming how America develops aspiring teachers. Starting with high school students,
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Educators Rising provides passionate young people with hands-on teaching experience, sustain their interest
in the profession, and help them cultivate the skills they need to be successful educators. The result is a
pipeline of accomplished teachers who are positioned to make a lasting difference — not only in the lives of
their students, but also in the field of teaching more broadly.
Resources
Neutral Zone – The grantee for this project is the Neutral Zone, Ann Arbor’s Teen Center. The Neutral Zone, Ann
Arbor Teen Center, was founded by teens in 1998 to provide a unique, youth-centered venue for needed social,
cultural, educational, leadership, and creative opportunities for Ann Arbor area high school teens. For more info
on the Neutral Zone, contact John Weiss: [email protected] OR 734.214.9995 ext. 222
The David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality – The Weikart Center’s mission is to advance the youth
development field by positioning point-of-service quality as a powerful public idea. The Center aims to build
quality accountability and improvement systems that improve professionals’ skills and change outcome
trajectories for youth.
The Community Evaluation and Research Center (CERC) - CERC is a unit of Michigan State University’s (MSU)
Office of University Outreach and Engagement. CERC acts as a hub for program evaluation activity across MSU,
providing training in evaluation and conducting formative and summative evaluations.
S|Y|N Associates LLC - is a consulting firm dedicated to expanding the frontiers of leadership which helps
leaders build more effective organizations. S|Y|N Associates is led by Stephen Nose, a former Neutral Zone
Board Member.
