Nonprofit Business Plan
Assessment & Planning
Evaluate
Napoleon said that there were three things needed to fight a war. The first is money. The second is money. And the third is money. That may be true for war, but it’s not true for the non-profit organization. There you need four things. You need a plan. You need marketing. You need people. And you need money.
-- Peter Drucker
Process Overview
Strategic Planning For Nonprofits
Plan
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I would spend six sharpening my ax.
-- Abraham Lincoln
Process Overview
- Review Mission, Vision, and Values Statements and revise and refine as appropriate.
- Assess the current situation by gathering and analyzing information from both internal and external sources, relative to the organization and the environment in which it operates.
- Discuss and build agreement about strategic priorities.
- Draft the Strategic Plan.
- Adopt the plan, along with protocols for monitoring and evaluating it.
Anticipated Outcomes
Organizational Assessment
Assess
The fundamental choices we make are these:
We choose between Maintenance and Greatness.
We choose between Caution and Courage.
We choose between Dependency and Autonomy.
-- Peter Block
Process Overview
