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Tips For Getting Youth Work Funding – Hidden Gem #3

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Funding may not grow on trees, but a good case study may help make it rain

Here’s the third of our Hidden Gems – posts that you may have missed from the first time around:

Tips For Getting Youth Work Funding

There never seems to be enough funding in youth work for the programs and activities that you want to run – whether you do non-faith based youth work or youth ministry.

Donors of all kinds want to know that the money they’re giving is going to be used effectively to make a positive difference in the lives of young people. It’s all very well selling your vision, but donors often like actual evidence proving that your programs work, hence why evidence-based programming is so popular.

Another way of providing evidence is to produce a case study for existing and potential donors. This would detail what position a young person started in, what programs you provided to them and what the end result was.

For more details on how to create case studies, check out today’s Hidden Gem: Crafting an ideal youth work case study.

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Crafting An Ideal Youth Work Case Study

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How to create a youth work case studyA youth work case study can be an important part of your youth work program administration. A good youth case study provides information about the young person’s needs for being on the project, what experiences they had on the project, how they’ve changed as a result of being a part of the youth program and where they are now.

This data can be used for internal project documentation, to provide evidence proving the positive effects of the youth work program that can be used in reporting or on promotional materials. Case studies can provide excellent support for securing grant funding and providing donors with supporting evidence at the end of a project.

7 steps to an ideal youth work case study

1. Young person’s history

2. How the youth came across the project/ was introduced to the work.

3. What needs were identified?

4. How did the project meet those needs/ what experiences did the youth have?

5. When/How did the youth complete the project and move on (if they have left the program)?

6. What positive changes can be seen in the youth’s life now, particularly focusing on how the identified needs were addressed through the provision of the project?

7.  Where is the youth now – what are they doing?

Tip 1: It may help having a quote from the young person if possible and from a youth worker who has seen a change in the young person since the start of their time on the project.

Tip 2: It’s important to get permission (at least from the youth or, depending on your country’s laws, their guardian or responsible adult) to share their story/use photographs and you should not use their real name.

Question: How could a youth work case study improve your youth work administration? Let us know in the comments below.

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