Strategic planning on a budget

Strategic Planning is a necessity for all organizations, particularly small community-based initiatives. In this article, the author discussed how to develop a first-class strategic plan with a limited budget.
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Negotiating the complexities of a changing organization requires a tool that’s practical and easily administered. The strategic planning process must provide a road map, but it [...]

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The growing leadership challenge

As the nonprofit sector grows, it faces perhaps its greatest challenge in its long history of service to America – an acute leadership shortage. According to a study by the Bridgespan Group, nonprofit organizations will need 640,000 new senior leaders over the next 10 years. That’s 2.4 times today’s number. And the [...]

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Brainstorming for great ideas

When leading your staff in a brainstorming session, never stop with the first good idea. The first idea is rarely the best idea, and here’s why: because it was easy to come up with, there’s a good chance that others have already thought of it. Make sure you come out of the meeting with at [...]

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12 basic steps to strategic planning

Strategic planning is strategic thinking! It does not have to be a long, drawn-out process, costing thousands of dollars and taking months of time. Here are twelve easy steps to a winning plan. The most important starting point is to commit to the process.

Scope the process.
Identify your stakeholders.
Draft a suggested mission statement [...]

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Strategic planning in smaller nonprofit 0rganizations

The purpose of strategic planning is to help organizations do a better job. Specifically, strategic planning enables an organization to best focus its energy, to ensure that its members are working toward the same goals, and to assess and adjust the organization’s direction in response to a changing environment. Strategic planning is a disciplined effort [...]

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