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The Nonprofit Strategic Plan Simplified Part 3: Framing Issues, Drafting Goals & Drafting Objectives

October 4, 2017
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Strategic Planning

This is the third and final post in a series started a few weeks ago on the nuts and bolts of creating a basic strategic plan. The underlying purpose of strategic planning is to come up with strategies (represented by goals and objectives) that describe how the organization will use its strengths and correct its weaknesses to pursue the opportunities for achieving its mission and avoid the threats that stand to prevent it from doing so.The series began with a…

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The Nonprofit Strategic Plan Simplified Part 2: Assessing Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (SWOTs)

September 11, 2017
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Strategic Planning

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." So said Abraham Lincoln. The quote has been borrowed for many purposes. I re-purpose it here in the context of your strategic plan and the importance of doing an environmental scan well before you begin to develop strategic priorities, goals and objectives. A scan typically includes an assessment of the internal "Strengths and Weaknesses" as well as the external "Opportunities and…

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The Nonprofit Strategic Plan Simplified Part 1: Crafting Your Mission, Vision and Values

September 4, 2017
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Management and Leadership, Strategic Planning

1. why are mission, vision, and values essential to the success of a strategic plan? Before a special joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy famously announced that "before the end of the decade, we will put a man on the moon." This was considered a very challenging technological feat at the time. Nonetheless, on July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. President Kennedy's vision…

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