Interactive Grant Workbench

Youth STEM Micro-Grant & Community Tech Camp Planner

Price a community coding sprint or six-week summer STEM cohort in seconds. Every line item enforces a mandatory 1:8 mentor safeguard, youth transit equity, and two-color zine documentation.

Cohort Cost & Staffing Calculator

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1. Participating Youth Builders 32 youth builders

2. Instructional Cadence

3. Workstation & Connectivity Provision

4. Student Transit & Meal Stipends

5. Civic Code Track

MICRO-GRANT TIER II (CHAPTER SPRINT)

$2,585

Requires co-host fiscal sponsor, loaner hardware manifest, and 1:8 mentor safeguard.

4 mentors (1:8 ratio) Minimum Mentors

$82 / youth Cost Per Youth

112 print zines Riso Print Edition

Civic Data & Climate Tracker Selected Repo

Hardware $704 Mentors $680 Zines $227 Meals $1,024

Grant Underwriting Rule

Community STEM organizers lose first-time teenage participants most often to transit barriers and uncompensated mentor burnout rather than software licensing fees. Allocate at least 30 percent of any Tier I or Tier II micro-grant to student bus passes, hot lunches, and lead mentor stipends ($85 per instructional day), while hosting code exclusively on free static web infrastructure.

Micro-Grant Tier Thresholds & Accountability Benchmarks

Grant Bracket	Budget Ceiling	Fiscal Governance	Mandatory Safeguards
Tier I: Local Seed	Up to $1,800	PTA, school club, or library Friends group	2+ background-checked mentors, offline USB backup
Tier II: Chapter Sprint	$1,801 to $6,500	501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor or municipal grant	1:8 mentor ratio, loaner hardware check-out ledger
Tier III: Regional Fellowship	Above $6,500	Multi-partner foundation or school district MOU	Stipended youth leads, bilingual zine run, open audit

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Continuity from 2019 Mobilization Grants to Local STEM Camps

During the 2019 #MarchForSisterhood campaign supported by Craig Newmark Philanthropies, local organizers requested lightweight budget sheets for turning one-day digital marches into recurring after-school coding clubs. This planner preserves that operational math as a permanent, printable worksheet.