Strategic Planning For The Nonprofit Organization

This course discusses how to overcome the challenges to effective strategic planning in a nonprofit organization.

What you'll learn
Recognize why strategic planning goals are typically not met – by most organizations, but particularly nonprofits.
Identify how to engage the right mix of collaborators to ensure the plan has relevant input and broad acceptance by those who will implement it.
Recognize how to effectively employ 5 tools for changing the outcome of the next plan you help build.
Discover the 5 components that must be part of every successful strategic planning process.
Discover how to write, in collaboration with others, a strategic plan that will have clear goals, measurable milestones, and accountability for taking appropriate and timely action.
Requirements
Prerequisite: Exposure to organizational strategy and the material will be most meaningful if you have served or currently serve on a nonprofit board or on the management team. This is particularly true for small to mid-sized organizations whose planning culture has not been fully developed, i.e., the organization has no strategic plan or has one but doesn’t manage to it effectively.
Advanced Preparation: None
Description
In this course we discuss how to overcome the challenges to effective strategic planning in a nonprofit organization, in order to enable the executive team and board of directors to appropriately and effectively guide the organization’s future direction.We start by discussing why strategic planning seems to be so difficult for nonprofit boards and management teams. Then we cover Issues like the board’s role, staff/board collaboration challenges, visionary thinking, risk taking and the relationship between strategic plans and day-to-day operations.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction to Strategic Planning for an NPO

Lecture 2 Why Do Organizations Plan?

Lecture 3 5 Changes to Make First

Lecture 4 Strategic Plan Framework

Lecture 5 Strategic Plan Sections

Lecture 6 How To Manage The Plan

Section 2: Supporting Materials

Lecture 7 Slides: Strategic Planning for the Nonprofit Organization

Lecture 8 Strategic Planning for the Nonprofit Organization Glossary/Index

Section 3: Review and Test

Anyone interested in Accounting, Finance, Business Management, Strategic Planning or related fields.