After the Strategic Plan

We have written many articles about strategic planning to help boards. They cover the pre-planning phase and the creation of the plan. This article will help you lay a foundation for the successful execution of the plan.

Implementation begins immediately after the plan is written. This is when the operational changes begin. When most boards […]

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What Should the Board Do?

A while ago a nonprofit was founded on a large piece of ground. The founders hoped the nonprofit would grow and need the land. As the years passed, the nonprofit grew and shrank. Today it is serving very few people and struggling to find a path forward. It has never needed more than the modest […]

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Supporting Your Executive

Nonprofit success depends on growing your executive faster than your nonprofit is growing. […]

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Measuring the Right Things

Encourage your board to set goals that will create strategic, competitive, and long-term success. […]

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Strategy Sets the Direction

Some nonprofit boards lower their nonprofit’s sustainability through their decision-making process. […]

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Ask Strategic Questions

Strategic questions from your board members will ensure your nonprofit is ready for the future and highly sustainable. […]

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Before Starting Strategic Planning

Lay a foundation before you begin strategic planning. […]

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Hurdles to Successful Plan Implementation

Strategic plans fail to achieve the desired success for three simple reasons. […]

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The Strategic Finance Committee

Ideally, a nonprofit’s board finance committee thinks and acts strategically. However, if you never tell them how to be strategic, it is unlikely they ever will be strategic. […]

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The Board as Enablers

Success is seldom easy but it is easier when someone enables you. Enabling the staff’s success is a great thing for a nonprofit board to do. […]

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