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Free Program Maturity Check Template

Score your program across governance, planning, delivery, impact measurement and sustainability, and get an AI report showing which stage each dimension is stuck at.

5 dimensions
~8 min
stage diagnosis
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Use it to find where a program actually stalls: five dimensions — governance, planning, delivery, impact measurement and sustainability — scored against staged criteria, with the report naming the level each one sits at so improvement money follows the stall.

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About this template

Programs don't fail everywhere at once — they stall in one or two dimensions while the rest look fine. This self-assessment scores five dimensions (governance, planning, delivery, impact measurement and sustainability) against staged criteria, and the AI report names which level each dimension actually sits at — startup, growing, institutional — so improvement money goes where the stall is, not where the story is.

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Sample form and report preview — live and ready to fill in.

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Sample AI report with scoring visuals and recommendations, printable as a PDF.
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What's Included

Everything you need to run this template.

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Staged criteria

Each dimension defines what level 1 through 5 looks like — self-deception has nowhere to sit.

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Radar over scores

Five dimensions visible as a shape, not a single misleading total.

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Evidence prompts

Every rating asks for the artifact that proves it.

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Stage report

The AI summary names startup / growing / institutional per dimension.

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How It Works

From copy to deliverable in four steps.

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Use this template

Copy it in; adjust dimensions to your program's reality.

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Score honestly

Answer as a team — the gap between roles is the data.

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Read the report

The AI summary pins the stuck stage per dimension.

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Plan the level-up

Fund one dimension per quarter, then re-score.

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Who Is This For

Pick your role — see how it fits your workflow.

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Executive directors

Bring evidence, not optimism, to board strategy nights.

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Program managers

See which dimension caps the whole system.

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Funders and coaches

Anchor capacity support in a shared, dated baseline.

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Key Features

What makes this template work as a professional deliverable.

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Sample Questions Inside

A preview of the real questions in this form — exactly what respondents see.

  1. Decision records exist and are dated (1–5)
  2. Program design traces to identified need (1–5)
  3. Delivery is documented and repeatable (1–5)
  4. We measure outcomes, not just attendance (1–5)
  5. Funding and key roles survive turnover (1–5)
  6. What is our strongest dimension? Prove it (open)
  7. What would level up the weakest? (open)
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Frequently Asked Questions

When should a program pause to measure its own maturity?
Before scaling, after losing key staff, and once a year at planning — moments when the shape of the operation silently changes.
How is this different from the impact assessment?
Impact asks what changed for beneficiaries; maturity asks whether your organization is built to keep delivering it. One rates the result, the other the machine.
Who should answer — director or team?
Everyone who runs the program; the report's most useful output is often the disagreement between roles.
Is it free to use?
Yes. Copy it into your FormLM workspace; each completed round generates a printable AI stage report.
What if all scores look mid?
Mid everywhere usually means evidence prompts went unanswered — re-check the ones without an artifact named.
How often to re-run?
Quarterly during rebuilds, annually otherwise; dimension-level movement is the story, totals are noise.

Find the dimension holding the ceiling

Five staged ratings, evidence under each, an AI report naming where you're stuck.