Can you elaborate on last month's article and help me understand the relationship between the fundraising plan and strategic plan? In an article entitled "How Fundraising Flows from Strategic Planning" it states: "The key to raising money is control, which...
More and more I am witnessing the power that leveraging our strengths has in the nonprofit sector. This approach, which identifies what is working well within any given system or organization and builds upon this knowledge, is at the heart...
The value in planning is not in creating strategy but in implementing it. The purpose of planning includes seeing the positive, tangible results accruing to the organization by instituting and achieving strategic change. Yet too many organizations see their planning...
In challenging times, not-for-profit organization boards and staff need to resist reactive-thinking and remember the basics of good governance and management. This starts with remembering what management-guru Peter Drucker identified as a leading quality of not-for-profits that sets the sector...
Last month, CharityVillage readers were invited to complete a three-question online survey about their planning levels in 2010. In this article, we will review the survey findings* and then discuss the trend of incorporating social media in planning (strategic or...
Sound familiar? There is a strategic issue that needs a solution, but discussion is bogged down with minutiae. People can't seem to come to consensus. Someone finally suggests an action and everyone, to their great relief, agrees. A few months...
In the 1960s, Albert Humphrey of Stanford University developed the SWOT analysis technique as a strategic planning tool. The concept is simple and easy to apply: You identify the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) of a particular organization, an...
What would it take to make your organization fail? What conditions could precipitate and sustain “the spiral of death”? What would complete financial collapse really look like? These are grisly questions to consider, but sometimes we need to envision complete...
“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” When said like that, it's pretty cut and dried. But the reality for many nonprofit organizations is quite different. While they understand the importance of strategic planning they run up against...
Introduction Throughout our work at ABARIS Consulting Inc. in helping organizations develop, implement and manage their strategy, we have made a few observations that are worthwhile sharing. When it come to strategic planning in the nonprofit sector we've noticed two...
