Exercises — Chapter 14: Sustainability and Dissemination

Part C builds your real plans. Selected answers in the appendix.

Part A — Recall and Understand

14.1. State the threshold concept. Why is sustainability part of the "value proposition," not a box to check?

14.2. List five sustainability strategies. Which is often the strongest, and why?

14.3. What four qualities make a sustainability plan credible?

14.4. Distinguish project, organizational, and impact sustainability.

14.5. What is "active knowledge translation," and how does it differ from passive publication?

14.6. Why must dissemination/sustainability costs appear in the budget?

Part B — Apply

14.7. Fix the magical plan. Rewrite: "We are confident the program's success will attract ample future funding." (Invent realistic specifics.)

14.8. Choose strategies. For a school tutoring program, which sustainability strategies genuinely fit, and which don't? Justify.

14.9. Match the kind. For each, name the most honest kind of sustainability (project/organizational/impact): (a) a two-year research pilot; (b) a recurring after-school program; (c) a capacity-building grant to a young nonprofit.

14.10. Strengthen dissemination. A program's plan says only "we'll publish our results." Add three active-translation channels for a program meant to spread to other communities.

14.11. Begun-during. Rewrite a future-tense sustainability promise into present-tense, already-underway form (invent specifics).

Part C — Analyze and Create (your real project)

14.12. Write your sustainability plan. Choose the strategies that genuinely fit; name specific sources/partners/steps; be realistic; show work begun during the grant; back it with evidence. Run the checklist.

14.13. Name your kind of sustainability. Which kind (project/organizational/impact) does your project really offer, and which does your funder value? Frame accordingly.

14.14. Write your dissemination plan. What you'll share, with which audiences who can use it, through which channels/formats, when — emphasizing active translation.

14.15. Budget it. List the dissemination/sustainability costs your plans imply, and confirm they're in your budget (Ch 11).

14.16. Mission frame. Write one sentence framing your sustainability and one framing your dissemination in your funder's mission terms.

Part M — Mixed Review

14.17. (From Ch 1) How do sustainability and dissemination connect to the mission transaction / return on investment?

14.18. (From Ch 10) How does your evaluation relate to dissemination and to a sustainability claim?

14.19. (From Ch 13) What Chapter 13 evidence strengthens an absorption-based sustainability plan?

Reflection

14.20. Learning check-in. Did you treat these as boilerplate or genuinely engage "will my impact last and spread?" How did that mindset shape what you wrote?