This classic workbook gives you practical guidance through five planning steps. Reproducible worksheets help you develop the plan, involve others in the process, and measure results. Four planning methods show how to tailor the process to fit your organization's individual needs. Also included are: critical ingredients of a sound plan; a new, more detailed sample of one nonprofit's strategic plan; and information on how multiple organizations, coalitions, and communities can use strategic planning.
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"An outstanding strategic planning guide and resource—one of the best published! Practical and straightforward." -- David Renz, Director, Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership, University of Missouri, Kansas City
"Chock full of tough-minded questions aimed at building a context for decision making... Relevant and responsive to the nonprofit sector." -- Barbara D. Kibbe, Skoll Foundation
"It will guide your steps into the future. You will be glad for such a friend on the journey." -- David L. Tiede, President, Luther Theological Seminary, St. Paul, MN
"Simply an outstanding resource. Recommended without hesitation to any nonprofit organization wishing to pursue strategic planning." -- John Bryson, Professor, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
"This new edition truly builds added value on top of a very strong original work." -- Patty Oertl, Executive Director, Center for Nonprofit Management, Southern California
"Chock full of tough-minded questions aimed at building a context for decision making... Relevant and responsive to the nonprofit sector." -- Barbara D. Kibbe, Skoll Foundation
"It will guide your steps into the future. You will be glad for such a friend on the journey." -- David L. Tiede, President, Luther Theological Seminary, St. Paul, MN
"Simply an outstanding resource. Recommended without hesitation to any nonprofit organization wishing to pursue strategic planning." -- John Bryson, Professor, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
"This new edition truly builds added value on top of a very strong original work." -- Patty Oertl, Executive Director, Center for Nonprofit Management, Southern California
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Time or budget constraints? Here's how to overcome obstacles to create a winning strategic plan! How do you reach your goals and make an impact when you're faced with funding cuts and increased competition? You'll find the answer in this practical guide. Step-by-step instructions help you develop sound, realistic plans for the future. You'll learn how to:
* Solve a web of problems that are hard to address one-by-one
* Build teamwork, improve communication, and boost managerial skills
* Influence rather than be influenced—especially in this time of new federal cutbacks
* Survive—even thrive—with fewer resources * Stimulate forward thinking and refocus your mission Written by national strategic planning expert Bryan Barry, this updated edition builds on the original and adds new sections so that you get:
* Step-by-step guidance through the five planning steps
* Four methods for developing a plan
* Critical ingredients of a sound plan
* Information on how to create a shared vision of your nonprofit's future to guide staff in making everyday choices
* Strategies to address problems and opportunities that the nonprofit sector now faces
* A new, more detailed sample of one nonprofit?s actual three-year plan including goals, strategies, staffing, financial, and implementation plans
* New suggestions on how to format your plan
* Additional tips for implementing and updating your plan
A sample 3-year plan
* Examples of how multiple organizations, coalitions, and communities can use strategic planning
* Easy-to-complete, detachable worksheets to help you develop your own plan, sell it to your colleagues, and measure results * Completed worksheet samples With the Strategic Planning Workbook you'll get a clear sense of direction that will guide your choices about which opportunities to pursue and which to avoid!
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A blueprint for planning the future,
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This review is from: Strategic Planning Workbook for Nonprofit Organizations, Revised and Updated (Paperback)
A good workhorse of a book which takes you through the steps of creating a strategic plan for your organization. A little sketchy in some areas but does provide great worksheets to action all the stages. I particularly liked the emphasis on trying to be realistic in your approach and in the resources needed.
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When our organization decided to engage in the strategic planning process, I reviewed a myriad of resources, and I believe that this workbook is the best. Not only does it explain the planning process well, but it offers a variety of paths through which to pursue planning, making it useful for any organization at any stage of growth. Plus, the worksheets are a great addition. Overall, the workbook has helped our planning process tremendously.
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In the early 1980s growing numbers of nonprofit organizations began to develop strategic plans. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
critical issues approach, home ownership opportunities, alignment approach, strategic planning workbook, critical issues for the future, scenario approach, planning retreat, appreciative inquiry Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North End, Wilder Foundation, Community Building Initiative, Rice Street, Set Direction, Get Organized, Neighborhood Housing Agenda Committee, New York, San Francisco, Neighborhood Development Center, Committee May, Dale Crossroads, Key Tasks, Staffing Plan, Support Centers of America, Committee January, Free Press, John Ongoing, Program Plans, Program Production, Summary In Step, Committee April, Harvard Business Review New!
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In the early 1980s growing numbers of nonprofit organizations began to develop strategic plans. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
critical issues approach, home ownership opportunities, alignment approach, strategic planning workbook, critical issues for the future, scenario approach, planning retreat, appreciative inquiry Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North End, Wilder Foundation, Community Building Initiative, Rice Street, Set Direction, Get Organized, Neighborhood Housing Agenda Committee, New York, San Francisco, Neighborhood Development Center, Committee May, Dale Crossroads, Key Tasks, Staffing Plan, Support Centers of America, Committee January, Free Press, John Ongoing, Program Plans, Program Production, Summary In Step, Committee April, Harvard Business Review New!
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- The Fieldstone Alliance Guide to Developing Effective Teams by Beth Gilbertsen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Appreciative Inquiry: A New Story of Positive Change for Business and World Benefit (The Appreciative Inquiry Positive Change Series) by David L. Cooperrider on page 104, and page 106
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- Coping with Cutbacks: The Nonprofit Guide to Success When Times Are Tight by Emil Angelica on page 31, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Director's Guide to Best Practices by Norma Jeanne Byrd in Front Matter, page 41, and page 62
- Nonprofit Stewardship: A Better Way to Lead Your Mission-Based Organization by Peter C. Brinckerhoff in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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