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Funding Partnership Fit Map

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About This MicroSim

Four needs, four approaches, and they are not interchangeable.

The mapping is mostly one-to-one, which is itself informative: a fiscal sponsor solves a very specific problem -- a grant that requires 501(c)(3) status the club does not have -- and solves nothing else. Vendor discount negotiation does not raise money at all; it makes the money already raised go further on things the club buys anyway.

One-time equipment or space is the exception, with two approaches converging on it. A local company and a strategic partner can both fill a one-off gap, but through different relationships: the company gives because supporting the community is part of what it does, while a university club or library trades because each side has something the other needs. Which route to take depends on what the club can offer back, and only one of the two requires having anything to offer.

Reading the map the other way is also useful: if a club's need is ongoing and recurring, only one approach here addresses it, and grants -- covered separately in this chapter -- are the other place to look.

How to Use

  • Click any need or approach to see what it covers.
  • Follow the two arrows out of One-Time Equipment or Space -- the only need with more than one approach.
  • Reset restores the layout.

Lesson Plan

Bloom level: Analyze (L4) -- examine

Learning objective: Given a specific club funding need, the learner examines which partnership or negotiation approach from this chapter best addresses it.

Before the sim (5 min). Ask what the club needs money for right now. Push past "more money" to a specific need -- recurring, one-off, grant-blocked, or cost-of-purchases.

With the sim (10 min). Trace each need to its approach. Then ask what a strategic partner would want back, which is the question that decides whether that route is open to this club.

After the sim (15 min). Pick the club's most pressing need and draft the opening ask for the approach the map points to.

Check for understanding. Ask: "A funder will only give to a registered nonprofit and the club is not one. What now?" Fiscal sponsorship -- and knowing that no other approach on the map unblocks that is the examination this objective wants.

Embedding This MicroSim

Paste this into any page of the book, adjusting the relative path to docs/sims/ for the page's depth:

<iframe src="../../sims/funding-partnership-fit-map/main.html" width="100%" height="642px" scrolling="no"></iframe>

Specification

The full specification below is extracted from Chapter 30: Budgeting, Fundraising, and Grant Writing.

Type: graph-model
**sim-id:** funding-partnership-fit-map<br/>
**Library:** vis-network<br/>
**Status:** Specified

Purpose: Let a leader see, in one view, which partnership or negotiation approach from this chapter addresses which kind of funding need, and notice where a single approach solves more than one need at once.

Bloom Taxonomy: Analyze (L4)
Bloom Taxonomy Verb: examine

Learning objective: Given a specific club funding need, the learner examines which partnership or negotiation approach from this chapter best addresses it.

Node types:
1. Need nodes (4, amber circles, left column): "Ongoing Recurring Support," "One-Time Equipment or Space," "Access to a Grant Requiring 501(c)(3) Status," "Lower Cost on Regular Purchases"
2. Fix nodes (4, sky-blue squares, right column): "Local Company Partnership," "Strategic Partnership Building," "Nonprofit Fiscal Sponsorship," "Vendor Discount Negotiation"

Edges (ADDRESSED_BY, directional arrows from need to fix):
- Ongoing Recurring Support -> Local Company Partnership
- One-Time Equipment or Space -> Strategic Partnership Building
- One-Time Equipment or Space -> Local Company Partnership
- Access to a Grant Requiring 501(c)(3) Status -> Nonprofit Fiscal Sponsorship
- Lower Cost on Regular Purchases -> Vendor Discount Negotiation

Sample data note: "One-Time Equipment or Space" has two outgoing edges, the only need addressed by more than one fix -- surfacing that a strategic partner (like a university club) and a local company partner can both solve a one-time equipment gap, just through different relationships.

Layout: Hierarchical left-to-right, needs in the left column, fixes in the right column

Interactive features:
- Hover a need node: show a one-line plain-language description of the funding need
- Click a need node: highlight all connected fix nodes and dim the rest; open a side-panel infobox with the need's definition and its worked-example figure from this chapter
- Click a fix node: highlight every need it addresses
- Zoom: mouse wheel; Pan: click-and-drag background

Visual styling: amber circles for needs, sky-blue squares for fixes, constant arrow thickness, label text directly on each node

Legend: need color/shape versus fix color/shape, plus a note that arrow direction always reads "need is addressed by fix"

Implementation: vis-network JavaScript library rendering a small fixed dataset (4 need nodes, 4 fix nodes, 5 edges) defined in a data.json file; canvas width is responsive, height fixed to match the iframe.

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