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Strategy
Strategic planning is the process of determining the future goals of your organization and how you plan to reach them.
For some organizations, strategic planning can seem mysterious or overwhelming. At it simplest, a strategic plan helps your organization know what to say "yes" or "no" to. There is no "best" way to plan, but it is key to intentionally create a process and format that fits your organization.
A strategic plan identifies and articulates your organization’s focus and priorities; allows energy and resources to be allocated efficiently and effectively; ensures your staff, board, and volunteers are working toward common goals; establishes agreement around intended outcomes or results; and provides a frame to assess and adjust the organization's direction in a changing environment.
From time to time, all nonprofits need to revise or revisit their strategic plan and planning processes.
Strategic Planning Services
If you have a need for in-depth solutions, IntegralOrg can work alongside your organization through customized supports that assist you on your journey as a nonprofit. Organizational development services are undertaken on a fee-for-service basis.
Strategic Planning
According to David La Piana, a strategic plan is " …a coordinated set of actions designed to create and sustain a competitive advantage in achieving our mission." If you would like to create a strategic plan or re-envision your current plan in the light of emerging realities, you may wish to undertake a comprehensive strategic planning process. In a comprehensive strategic planning process, your organization will develop an understanding of current and expected capacities, determine external trends and dynamics that need to be considered in planning, figure out where you want to be in future years and what is critical for success, identify strategies, priorities, actions, and roles, and finally create evaluation and revision plans.
Scenario Planning
In scenario planning, we ask the question: “What might we need to do?” not “What will we do and how will we do it?” Scenario planning is about generating options and insight, not actions and plans. Scenario planning helps your organization envision variations of what the future may hold, identify some of the critical uncertainties it faces, and think through the possible impacts and responses to them. It is a creative, shared process that helps make sense of an uncertain future with a focus on making better decisions. Through facilitated scenario planning sessions, you can determine your organization’s focal questions, identify drivers of change and critical uncertainties, craft scenarios using a scenario matrix, and surface implications, ideas, and next steps.
Sustainability Analysis
Nonprofit sustainability encompasses both financial sustainability – the ability to generate resources to meet the needs of the present without compromising the future - and programmatic sustainability – the ability to develop, mature, and cycle out of programs in a way that is responsive to community needs.
Through a sustainability analysis, your organization will create a Matrix Map, a visual representation of your organization’s business model that details how each program contributes to both the mission impact and financial viability. This process provides a framework for reflection and discussion that will inform the future course of action for your organization
Organizational Assessment
A comprehensive survey with your board, leadership, and staff to help your organization develop a common understanding of the current state of operations, governance, programmatic factors, and strategic elements within the organization. The survey surfaces areas of organizational strength, areas that require development or discussion, and areas of critical concern that require actions to move beyond the status quo.
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