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Award Relationship Map and Cultivation Plan.

Name the specific people who decide the award and plan how you build a real relationship with each before the ask, including finding a champion inside.

The first step of winning, building on the landscape map from the choosing work.

Map the deciders

From your landscape map, name the specific people who decide or influence this award, and for each: your current standing, who will carry the relationship, and the next trust-building move.

Decider

Standing (warm / cold / board connection)

Owner

Next move

Find your champion. Most public awards are won with an inside champion: a trustee who advocates, a legislator who carries your line, a community leader who anchors the coalition. Who is yours, or who could become one, and how you cultivate them?

Where a board member holds a relationship, they often carry it. The board is frequently the right face for institutional and civic relationships.

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