Orca Climate Fund Partnership Scoring Guide

	A	B	C	D	E
1	Prospects are scored on a scale of 1-4 for the following aspects. Why score out of 4? It forces you to take a position, you're either going to have to land over or under on a scoring dimension.
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3	Alignment	Aligns perfectly with the Climate Fund's mission, objectives, and timelines creates positive benefits for both the partner and the Climate Fund, proposal/framework clear and milestones/measurables are practical, periodic, and verifiable by independent third parties	Aligns well with the Climate Fund's mission, some objectives and timelines may be a slight mismatch, creates positive benefits for both the partner and the Climate Fund, there may only be binary measurables (commit/not commit) and goals	Somewhat aligns with one or two of the mission and objectives of the Climate Fund, creates some benefit that mostly benefits the partner and only in some nebulous, unmeasurable way for the Climate Fund, framework is one-off, milestones/goals are not measurable	Probably did not bother to read the Climate Fund's mission, "partnership" mainly benefits the organization making the proposal in a monetary/exposure way, there is no clear framework for collaboration, milestone/measurables are non-existent
4	Economics	Strong value generated for the partner and the Climate Fund, partner sits at a key point that activates more of the value chain, the deeper the partnership, the greater the value/cheaper acquired benefits get. Benefits are sustainably distributed to LDCs/areas of greatest need	There are some strong immediate benefits for the Climate Fund and the partner but scaleup/flywheel is unclear. benefit fits a unique need uncovered by other Climate Fund grants or operations and costs are reasonably recovered during the partnership via benefits/economic repatriation	There's some opportunistic/event based value but little continuity. Value accrues mainly to the author of the proposal/middlemen, may require significant resources from the Climate Fund	Looking for a quick arbitrage/one time purchase, no sustainable economics, benefits are not distributed in an fair way among those impacted (example, funding development project that takes away rights to peatlands that sit on tribal lands)
5	Channels of communications/Support	Clear channels of communication up and down the chain of command, support is timely and concerns directly addressed. Dedicated avenues of access and coordination before and after joint milestone announcements and other events	extensive support documentation but shortage of answerable personnel, dedicated platform/channel of support for partners that is constantly updated and where partners can interact	Symbolic support, "communication" consists of a telegram channel with a bunch of random people most of whom never have any input	Met at a conference/event and now waiting for a grant. Difficult to get a hold of anyone in a timely manner, there seems to be no established channel for communication and no lead
6	Distribution benefits	Gives Climate Fund platform and access to a new, high value potential audience of significant consequence and high alignment, whether in the founder, philantropic, or climate communities, will continue to generate evergreen interest for a significant period of time	robust channels to a large existing audience that has at least partial alignment with the Climate Fund's mission, full access to channels and trackable follow-through progress on initial trial collaborations	One-time, event-based distribution that's difficult to follow up with, audience is narrow and niche and may be misaligned	Little to no distribution benefits, Climate Fund gets to release an update which only a few internal stakeholders will be interested in
7	Timeline of impact	Will have material and immediate impact that can be measured by objectives listed in the Climate Fund's mission statement	Has a high probability of creative positive impact as measured by mission statement objectives, turnaround is short (a week or two)	establishment/outcome of partnership is dependent on many variables which may or may not come to fruition, a two week to a few months in turnaround before all the variables are fully fleshed out	Preliminary feelers, not very urgent, not likely to reach concrete outcomes for another 6 months to a year
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