The questions we ask are data points that many funders look for when determining whether to fund a program and how effective it has been in a community. It’s how we tell the impact of the work you do with entrepreneurs. There are a lot of discussions happening in the field [...]
No. Survey questions are currently fixed for the purposes of standardization in our impact measurement efforts. If you need additional information gathered, we recommend asking those questions on your application.
You can use whatever application you want for your programs. If you don't have one, CO.STARTERS provides an editable Google form version you are welcome to copy and edit to meet your needs.
The data is used to help you understand how your local programs are working, as well as integrated with everyone else’s data to give us a pulse of the CO.STARTERS community as a whole. We are committed to privacy and do not share individual data or results. Aggregate data and themes drawn [...]
You will know who is in your programs and how you’ve helped them. You’ll know how CO.STARTERS programs are being effective in your community. You’ll have the concrete data on both activities and outcomes that you need to secure funding. You’ll be able to identify gaps so that you can address them. [...]
The system works best for all of us if everyone uses it. We strongly recommend using it because it will help you: know who is in your programs and how you've helped them. know how CO.STARTERS programs are being effective in your community. have the concrete data on both activities and outcomes [...]
The more priority and support you give this, the better the information we’ll be able to provide. We count on you to remind, encourage, and incentivize your participants to complete the surveys. You may even want to devote session time the first and last week to ensure complete participation.
Sometimes our members want to focus a cohort on a specific type of business or entrepreneur—food, arts, women-owned—and ask how they can best contextualize the program. CO.STARTERS was designed to be able to address any of these sufficiently and without modification. We encourage doing the contextualization in your recruiting (who you [...]
The typical per participant price falls between $25-$75, with an average of $50. Take a couple things into consideration when you set your price. If you want to do nothing other than recoup the cost of the workshop toolkit, you’ll need to price it higher than $17.50 and make sure you have [...]
Absolutely! In fact, we encourage you to use the Get Started Workshop as a teaser to help recruit participants for CO.STARTERS Core. Since it minimally covers some of the same information (like the Canvas), it gives a great preview to what the full program has to offer.