Strategic Planning for Nonprofit Organizations, Second Edition

Guidelines on adapting proven corporate marketing tools to the nonprofit sector

For strategic planning to be effective in the nonprofit setting, a variety of issues must be considered, including the relationship between board and staff, limited resources, and more. Packed with real-world insights, planning tips, common misperceptions, pitfalls to avoid, and other useful pointers, this Second Edition and its companion Web site make planning easy for nonprofit managers by providing a six-step approach to strategic planning, field-tested worksheets, and a real-life case study that takes readers through the entire process of successfully creating and implementing a strategic plan.

Michael Allison (San Francisco, CA) is Director of CompassPoint Nonprofit Services Consulting and Research Group. Jude Kaye (San Francisco, CA) is Senior Staff Consultant for CompassPoint Nonprofit Services.

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Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Guide to Strengthening and Sustaining Organizational Achievement, 3rd Edition

When it was first published more than sixteen years ago, John Bryson's Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations introduced a new and thoughtful strategic planning model. Since then it has become the standard reference in the field. In this completely revised third edition, Bryson updates his perennial bestseller to help today’s leaders enhance organizational effectiveness. This new edition:

• Features the Strategy Change Cycle—a proven planning process used by a large number of organizations
• Offers detailed guidance on implementing the planning process and includes specific tools and techniques to make the process work in any organization
• Introduces new material on creating public value, stakeholder analysis, strategy mapping, balanced scorecards, collaboration, and more
• Includes information about the organizational designs that will encourage strategic thought and action throughout the entire organization
• Contains a wealth of updated examples and cases

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Strategic Planning Workbook for Nonprofit Organizations, Revised and Updated

Time or budget constraints? Here's how to overcome obstacles to create a winning strategic plan!

How do you reach your goals and make an impact when you're faced with funding cuts and increased competition? You'll find the answer in this practical guide.

Step-by-step instructions help you develop sound, realistic plans for the future. You'll learn how to:
- Solve a web of problems that are hard to address one-by-one
- Build teamwork, improve communication, and boost managerial skills
- Influence rather than be influenced--especially in this time of new federal cutbacks
- Survive, even thrive, with fewer resources
- Stimulate forward thinking and refocus your mission.

Written by national strategic planning expert Bryan Barry, this updated edition builds on the original and adds new sections so that you get:
- Step-by-step guidance through the five planning steps
- Four methods for developing a plan
- Critical ingredients of a sound plan
- Information on how to create a shared vision of your nonprofit's future to guide staff in making everyday choices
- Strategies to address problems and opportunities that the nonprofit sector now faces
- A new, more detailed sample of one nonprofits actual three-year plan including goals, strategies, staffing, financial, and implementation plans
- New suggestions on how to format your plan
- Additional tips for implementing and updating your plan
- A sample 3-year plaN
- Examples of how multiple organizations, coalitions, and communities can use strategic planning
- A CD-ROM with easy-to-complete, interactive worksheets to help you develop your own plan, sell it to your colleagues, and measure results
- Completed worksheet samples.

With the Strategic Planning Workbook you'll get a clear sense of direction that will guide your choices about which opportunities to pursue and which to avoid!

Price: $34.95

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