Strategic Planning

  • Tip of the Month: Strategic Planning
    Each month, we’ll share a focused, practical tip to help you strengthen your organization, engage your community, and achieve your mission.
  • Take 10: Resume and Thrive Strategies

    Initially published as organizations began to re-open and return in-person to workplaces after the COVID-19 pandemic, the considerations in Nonprofit Risk Management Center's article, Take 10: Resume and Thrive Strategies, can help any organization reasses its business strategies and reinitatie its programs and services after an abrupt change, closure, or crisis.

  • A Nonprofit's Guide to Risk Management & Insurance

    A Nonprofit's Guide to Risk Management & Insurance - "Risk management can play a critical role in a nonprofit's success or failure.

  • 501(c)ast - Podcast

    The 501(c)ast Series is a "facilitated web-series of interviews brings together seasoned experts to help nonprofits succeed" started in 2020 by NonprofitResources.us. Webcast topics in the series have included: nonprofit staffing models, strategic development, mental health in the workplace, generational changes in the workforce, and nonprofit overhead.

     

  • Nonprofit Mergers and Acquisitions: More Than a Tool for Tough Times

    Mergers and acquisitions are much more common in the nonprofit sector than most would think. Nonprofit mergers often come about through default – due to financial distress or leadership vacuums. At the same time, relatively few nonprofits are using it strategically – as a way to strengthen organizations' effectiveness, spread best practices, expand reach, and to do all of this more cost-effectively.

  • Infuse Continuity Planning into Your Next Strategic Plan

    These days, many organizations are asking themselves: Could we have been better prepared? While organizations use strategic planning to prepare for opportunities and challenges and to chart a course forward, nonprofits have spent 2020 adapting and evolving, and are taking a new look at future strategic planning needs.

  • Creating a Fundraising Plan: Step-by-Step Guidebook

    This Nonprofit Learning Lab* resource entitled, Creating a Fundraising Plan: Step-by-Step Guidebook, offers an in depth review of the process to create a fundraising plan, fundraising strategies, details on how to draft a plan and sample templates. This guidebook also includes activities and worksheets to help staff, board members, and fundraising committee members with developing their fundraising plan. 

     

     

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

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

  • Nonprofit Strategic Technology Planning Guide

    Nonprofit Strategic Technology Planning Guide offers a step-by-step approach to designing a long-term technology plan for your nonprofit. It identifies specific meetings you would need to have with your technology steering committee and other stakeholders in each phase, deliverables to achieve at each step of the strategic planning process, and tools for needs such as calculating Total Cost of Ownership.

  • The Nonprofit Leader's Guide to Hiring and Engaging Consultants

    The Nonprofit Leader's Guide to Hiring and Engaging Consultants seeks to help you "understand where and how consultants can add value; assess your organization's readiness to retain a consultant; prepare for a consulting project; identify prospective consultants; solicit proposals; screen prospects and choose a consultant; formalize the consulting arrangement; and get your engagement off to a strong start." (

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