Strategic plans look into the future three to five years, setting up the goal posts your organization wants to hit by the end of the plan. We’ve talked before about inspirational versus practical planning and about journey versus route, but here’s a quick reminder. When it comes to nonprofit organizational planning, the inspirational view –…
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Strengths and Weaknesses as part of a nonprofit SWOT analysis
SWOT Analyses are a common way of evaluating where an organization stands, what are its greatest attributes and greatest areas of improvement. SWOT stands for Strengths – Weaknesses – Opportunities – Threats. As we touched on before, strengths and weaknesses are internal and opportunities and threats are external. Today, we look at strengths and weaknesses….
SWOT Analysis for nonprofits
SWOT Analyses happen in both for-profit and non-profit worlds. They are a common way of evaluating where an organization stands, what are its greatest attributes and greatest areas of improvement. SWOT stands for Strengths – Weaknesses – Opportunities – Threats. Over the next few days we will be looking at each area more in-depth but…
Internal Communications Plans
Introduction Communications plans help to guide conversation and larger communication throughout an organization for efficient and effective decision making and messaging. As an organization transitions to a formal communications plan, it is important to remember to have patience and understanding, recognizing that questions and comments may not be immediately validated or responded to. A communications…
Board Meetings: Discussion & Timing
We are wrapping up our section on board meetings today by focusing on the discussions you have and the time you take at a board meeting. First, one quick question: Do you already use board packets? If so, great! If not, you may want to refer to our article on Agendas & Board Packets. The…