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Your total guide to putting a powerful management tool to work in your organization
Why strategic planning? Because a well wrought strategic plan helps you set priorities and acquire and allocate the resources needed to achieve your goals. It provides a framework for analyzing and quickly adapting to future challenges. And it helps all board and staff members focus more clearly on your organization's priorities, while building commitment and promoting cooperation and innovation.
But to be effective, your plan will need to address the special needs of the nonprofit sector. And for more than a decade, Strategic Planning for Nonprofit Organizations has been the number-one source of guidance on all facets of strategic planning for managers at nonprofits of every size and budget.
This thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded edition arms you with the expert knowledge and tools you need to develop and implement surefire strategic plans, including tested-in-the-trenches worksheets, checklists, and tables--in print and on the companion CD-ROM--along with a book-length case study that lets you observe strategic planning in action. Packed with real-world insights and practical pointers, it shows you how to:
* Develop a clear mission, vision, and set of values
* Conduct SWOT analyses and program evaluations
* Assess client needs and determine stakeholder concerns
* Set priorities and develop core strategies, goals, and objectives
* Balance the dual bottom lines of mission and money
* Write and implement a solid strategic plan
* Develop a user-friendly annual work plan
* Establish planning cycles, gauge progress, and update strategies
Why strategic planning? Because a well wrought strategic plan helps you set priorities and acquire and allocate the resources needed to achieve your goals. It provides a framework for analyzing and quickly adapting to future challenges. And it helps all board and staff members focus more clearly on your organization's priorities, while building commitment and promoting cooperation and innovation.
But to be effective, your plan will need to address the special needs of the nonprofit sector. And for more than a decade, Strategic Planning for Nonprofit Organizations has been the number-one source of guidance on all facets of strategic planning for managers at nonprofits of every size and budget.
This thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded edition arms you with the expert knowledge and tools you need to develop and implement surefire strategic plans, including tested-in-the-trenches worksheets, checklists, and tables--in print and on the companion CD-ROM--along with a book-length case study that lets you observe strategic planning in action. Packed with real-world insights and practical pointers, it shows you how to:
* Develop a clear mission, vision, and set of values
* Conduct SWOT analyses and program evaluations
* Assess client needs and determine stakeholder concerns
* Set priorities and develop core strategies, goals, and objectives
* Balance the dual bottom lines of mission and money
* Write and implement a solid strategic plan
* Develop a user-friendly annual work plan
* Establish planning cycles, gauge progress, and update strategies
From the Publisher
This comprehensive book/disk set shows you how to create and implement an effective strategic plan using a simple, seven-phase process that covers everything from defining your mission and setting your course to initiating, monitoring, and streamlining your plan. The workbook is designed for nonprofits of all shapes, sizes, and budgets, and can be easily adapted to fit any time frame. The package comes with field-tested worksheets, checklists, and tables in both print and disk formats, plus a sample case study that demonstrates strategic planning in action from start to finish.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Practical tool,
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This review is from: Strategic Planning for Nonprofit Organizations: A Practical Guide and Workbook (Paperback)
The problem with so many books that deal with this subject matter is that they talk a lot of great theory but fall short when it comes to bringing things down to earth. This book, however, succeeds on both accounts. It offers not only a concrete step-by-step format, but solid rationales for the "why" question. Templates for the various forms that can be used with your group are an extra plus. Highly recommended!
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Strategic planning: all you need to know,
By A Customer
This review is from: Strategic Planning for Nonprofit Organizations: A Practical Guide and Workbook (Paperback)
This is an excellent guide to developing a strategic plan, from conception to execution. While emphasizing the fact that the process is messy and nonlinear, this book enables one to take the first step, plan to plan, and decide how indepth the focus needs to be. There is appropriate emphasis on the need to develop mission and vision, and detailed worksheets for every question that may be relevant to your organization's situation. The diskette provides all the templates for putting it together. Highly recommended.
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Strategic Planning 101 for Nonprofit Neophytes,
By "cbanish" (Texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Strategic Planning for Nonprofit Organizations: A Practical Guide and Workbook (Paperback)
Step-by-step advice regarding setting up a nonprofit strategic plan, mission/vision, environment assessment, and more. Good case studies compliment the strategies. Nice sections on monitoring plans. Templates included on diskette very helpful.
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