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Ten Keys to Successful Strategic Planning
TCC Group's paper offers ten keys to succession strategic planning for nonprofit and foundation leaders, and how it's both remained the same and changed over the past ten years.
Strategic Planning Document - Template
Does your organization need a strategic plan or a refresh of your current plan? Use this framework for a basic strategic plan to craft a goals-based document.
Stage-based Nonprofit Lifecycles
Stage-based Nonprofit Lifecycles (based on the book Nonprofit Lifecycles: Stage-based Wisdom for Nonprofit Capacity) walks through the various stages of a nonprofit lifecyle and helps organizations determine where they fall.
Social Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
Social enterprise is about using a market-driven business model to address key social and environmental issues. Often, nonprofits apply ideas and practices from social entrepreneurship to advance their missions.
Small Business Center Network
The Small Business Center Network (SBCN) offers programs, services, and resources to start and grow a business or nonprofit organization - including guiding you through the steps of considering, planning, developing, opening, and operating the organization.
Sample Organizational Climate Survey
An organizational climate survey measures an organization's strengths and areas for improvement on several levels: pertaining to the organization, each work department, and specific jobs/roles. Adapt this sample to conduct a survey of your organization.
Sample Request for Proposal for Strategic Planning
Network 180's request for proposal for a strategic planning consultant provides a sample you can adapt for your own organization.
Request for Proposal for Executive Search Firm - Template and Example
The Center developed a request for proposal for an executive search firm while conducting its executive search for its president & CEO. Use the Center's document as an example and adapt this template for your own.
Rediagnosing “Founder’s Syndrome”
The article, Rediagnosing “Founder’s Syndrome”, diagnoses founder's syndrome and its four "symptoms", and explores how boards can address and remedy symptoms for a mission-driven focus and approach.
Nonprofit Strategy and Planning by the Numbers
Increasingly, nonprofits are turning to more flexible strategic frameworks instead of formal strategic plans to guide their board and staff. This infographic outlines the evolution and describes different strategy and planning options.
Emergency Action Plan Template
A sample outline to devise an emergency preparedness plan for your organization's personnel and facility.
Effective Meetings Toolkit
Resources to help you set the stage for meetings that are strategic, outcome-oriented, and productive.
DIY: Make a Bylaws Cheat Sheet
Abbreviating and summarizing your bylaws to ensure board members actually use and reference them.
Diversity Appreciation, Training, and Management
An in-depth look at diversity and how best you can adapt.
Ditch Your Board Composition Matrix
Read this article to learn about the traps of the board matrix and what to focus on instead.
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