4 Essential Ingredients in Strategic Planning
When you embark on a planning process, you can place parameters on what elements are up for review, such as your organization’s vision or mission statement. We believe you should look at both every cycle.
However, you can’t have an agenda. One past client’s goal for the planning process was to reduce the size of the board. This was not an outcome. We also have seen a new CEO come on board and rewrite the plan — while the board watched. Needless to say, the board did not have buy-in. Planning isn’t about one person or an agenda, but about making the best decisions for the health and success of your organization.
Looking for Jeff? You'll find him either on the lake, laughing with good friends, or helping nonprofits develop to their full potential.
Jeff believes that successful fundraising is built on a bedrock of relevant, consistent messaging; sound practices; the nurturing of relationships; and impeccable stewardship. And that organizations that adhere to those standards serve as beacons to others that aspire to them. The Bedrocks & Beacons blog will provide strategic information to help nonprofits be both.
Jeff has more than 25 years of nonprofit leadership experience and is a member of the NonProfit PRO Editorial Advisory Board.
