Stealing Smart: For-Profit Best Practices for Nonprofits

"You don't know who's going to be working there in 20 years, but you know the departments you have. So you must ask yourself what do you do now that keeps us on the path to our goals and helps build our strength to those goals," Delaney says.

It's the difference between goal setting and achieving goals. Nonprofits are often very ambitious in their goals, but many times they lack the true strategic planning to accomplish those goals.