strategic plan

  • Fortify Your Pillars of Resilience
    These six resilience tactics and strategies can help organizations prepare for any disruption or crisis
  • Planning for the Lost Horizon

    Kathy Ridge, Founder and CEO, LevRidge Resources, LLC

    We now know a single vaccine will not instantly obliterate the COVID virus. Instead, we must depend on personal behaviors, along with contact tracing and vaccines, to decrease infection rates. As organizations face an unknown future, how do we plan, prepare, and organize for the ‘lost horizon’ that is 2021 and the post-virus world?

    You don’t need a new strategic plan – you need a short-term business plan based on what you do know to get through the next 18 months and develop more resiliency.

  • The Strategic Plan: It’s Not a Destination, It’s a Journey

    Jeanne Tedrow, President & CEO, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits

  • Leading a Nonprofit Organization - Tips and Tools for Executive Directors and Team Leaders

    Leading a Nonprofit Organization: Tips and Tools for Executive Directors and Team Leaders succinctly covers leadership styles, implementing strategic plans, and increasing employee retention. It also provides a New Executive Director Checklist, tools for team and trust building, and strategies for project management.

  • Sample Emergency Succession Plan

    Nonprofit organizations can adapt this sample emergency succession plan (CompassPoint) for the process of appointing an acting executive in the event of an unplanned absence. 

     

  • Sample Executive Director Succession Policy

    Every organization will eventually experience a change in executive leadership, which is a time of both risk and opportunity. Nonprofit organizations can adapt this executive director succession policy example to create their own succession policy (Raffa, formerly TransitionGuides).

     

  • Executive Search & Transition Time Line Worksheet

    Executive transitions can be stressful for everyone involved. Transition Guides makes this transition easier with an "Executive Search & Transition Time Line Worksheet" to assist your organization in the process. (Transition Guides)

     

  • Sample Emergency Succession Plan

    Sample Emergency Succession Plan by Tim Wolfred gives a model plan with emphasis on "identifying the key leadership functions carried by the executive, identifying the agency managers best qualified to step into the executive role in an emergency, and prescribing the cross-training necessary to prepare the back-up managers to cover the leadership functions." (CompassPoint Nonprofit Services,

  • Where to Start: Priorities for a New Director

    The article, Where to Start? Priorities for a New Director, shares lessons learned about how a new executive can get off to a positive start. (North Carolina Center for Nonprofits)

     

  • Why and How to Hire an Interim Executive Director

    Research suggests that a skilled interim executive director (ED) helps nonprofits to emerge stronger, more fiscally sound, and with higher levels of optimism.  Learn how an interim ED can lay the groundwork for the next leader's success.

    © North Carolina Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Inc. From Common Ground, a publication of the N.C. Center for Nonprofits, www.ncnonprofits.org.

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