Strategic Planning Workbook for Nonprofit Organizations

By Bryan W. Barry

Book Overview

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 the Strategic Planning Workbook. With practical, step-by-step guidance and worksheets to develop your own plan, 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

You'll gain a sense of direction that will guide your choices about which opportunities to pursue and which to avoid.

New improvements make the workbook even more useful

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 phases and the 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 nonprofit's actual three-year plan Tips for implementing and updating your plan Examples of how multiple organizations, coalitions, and communities can use strategic planning Easy-to-complete worksheets to help you develop your own plan, sell it to your colleagues, and measure results

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0940069075
• ISBN13: 9780940069077
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Fieldstone Alliance
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.9" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Excellent, Easy-to-Use Workbook for Organizations Engaged in Strategic Planning Process

When our organization decided to engage in the strategic planning process, I reviewed a myriad of resources, and I believe that this workbook is the best. Not only does it explain the planning process well, but it offers a variety of paths through which to pursue planning, making it useful for any organization at any stage of growth. Plus, the worksheets are a great addition. Overall, the workbook has helped our planning process tremendously.

A blueprint for planning the future

A good workhorse of a book which takes you through the steps of creating a strategic plan for your organization. A little sketchy in some areas but does provide great worksheets to action all the stages. I particularly liked the emphasis on trying to be realistic in your approach and in the resources needed.