First - a big announcement: we’re running another cohort of SciComm STEP next spring! Applications are live right now on our website (MeteorSciComm.org)! 🥳 

Articulating and providing evidence of success is reliably hard in scicomm. At the systems level, it can feel swampingly abstract. That’s why concrete examples are super useful. So, in this episode, we dissect how we articulated what success would be for the SciComm STEP program (Sparking Transitions for Experienced Professionals).  

We talk about: 

• Articulating our own metrics of success 
• Finding funders with shared values 
• Mapping our self-defined measures of success onto funders’ values (scicomm 101, really!) 
• Designing the program to track metrics we’d articulated would evidence success 
• Framing up a program, process, and perspectives on enduring funding that will be sustainable, not just a one-off…while having very clear exit strategies that leave relationships intact 
• Being flexible and responsive as we delivered the program 

Dig in for yourself: 

• Check out our report on STEP and see how we stated success and the evidence we collected to inform our assessment of STEP’s success. 
• Are you building a program? Are you pushing on a system? How have you defined success? 

Thanks for listening! Let’s holler about success, together! 📢🥳 Connect with us on BlueSky at @bgmerkle.bsky.social and @vgwschutte.bsky.social.