M-T1-SP-19 · A 90-day try-out

A club plan for Community Innovation Partnerships

Use this as a starting point. Cross out what does not fit, add what is missing and make it your club's own.

Where this idea came from

Playbook entry: M-T1-SP-19 · Community Innovation Partnerships
Theme: Theme 1: Attraction & Visibility · Subtheme SP: Strategic Partnerships
Source material: Existing checked Theme 1 guide
Linked playbook entry: M-T1-SP-19 · Community Innovation Partnerships

1. Is this worth trying here?

What we hope will change: Bring residents, service organisations, technologists and decision-makers together to test a small solution to a stubborn local problem.

What is happening in our club or community now?What is the smallest useful version we could try? What will we leave out?

Board contactPerson leading the workPerson checking what happened

2. Our 90-day try-out

What our club will do for Community Innovation Partnerships
Step	What we will do	Who could lead it
1	Describe the problem and current journey with lived-experience contributors.	Community design lead
2	Generate options and select the lowest-risk test of the key assumption.	Innovation facilitator
3	Approve prototype safeguards, consent and success or stop criteria.	Pilot governance owner
4	Run the test and capture behavioural evidence plus unintended effects.	Experiment lead
5	Make an evidence-based adopt, adapt or stop decision.	Authorised sponsor

3. Checks before we start

Things our club needs to check
Question	What it means for us	Who will check	Done?
Treat lived experience as expertise; obtain consent and avoid repeatedly extracting personal stories.
Minimise data and prohibit automated or high-impact decisions without appropriate assessment.
High — experimentation with vulnerable people, data or unproven technology demands ethical and reversible design.

4. What changed?

What we will keep an eye on
What matters	Where we are now	What we hope to see	How we will check	Who
Key assumption and baseline are explicit.

After 30 days

Is it reaching the right people? Is anything unsafe, unfair or harder than expected?

After 60 days

Make one useful change based on what people have told you.

After 90 days

Compare with where you started. Decide whether to change it, continue it or stop.

Before your club says yes

Does the idea fit?

Talk with the people it is meant to serve and check that the need is real.

We have checked this

Who can say yes?

Name the person or group that can approve the work, spending and any safety arrangements.

We have checked this

Are people protected?

Check privacy, consent and safety. Collect only the information you genuinely need.

We have checked this

Can everyone take part?

Check the language, format, place, technology and cost for barriers.

We have checked this

Are the facts and permissions right?

Check names, claims, images, quotations, partner references and Rotary branding.

We have checked this

How will we learn?

Note where things stand now, check in at 30, 60 and 90 days, and decide what to do next.

We have checked this

Worksheets for your club

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Training and mentoring guide

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Workflow and minimum-data register

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Partnership and stakeholder map

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