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CommUnity workshop for nonprofits
Thursday, January 28 2010, 12:00pm - 2:00pm

Location: Farr Branch Regional Library. The Intentional Nonprofit.

 

The environment in which our organizations do their work is rapidly changing: new technologies, emerging best practices in management and programming, demographic shifts, innovative business models and economic booms and busts. To have maximum mission impact, the smart nonprofit intentionally develops and implements a framework of principles and priorities. This foundation enables the organization to seize opportunities and address problems proactively and objectively. Unfortunately, this framework has gotten a bad name: “strategic planning.” 

A lot of folks associate strategic planning with a lengthy process that’s contentious or simply boring, includes a painful two-day retreat, creates a lot of additional work for staff and board, results in staff being responsible for implementing hair-brained utopian dreams they had no part in shaping and produces a long, complicated document that is promptly filed and rarely used. 
It doesn’t have to be this way! In this workshop we’ll explore the real purpose of strategic planning, how a good planning process adds value beyond the plan itself, and various planning approaches and methods. 

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