by John Fulwider | Jul 1, 2015 | Strategic Planning
A good nonprofit strategic planning process includes three components. If your organization skips or poorly executes one of these components, it is unlikely to get results from its strategic plan. There are huge costs associated with an incomplete planning process:...
by John Fulwider | Jun 20, 2015 | Strategic Planning
Boring meetings that don’t engage board members’ minds are a prime reason for board disengagement. You can de-boring (!) your board meetings with a strategic thinking calendar. A strategic thinking calendar is a list, published at the beginning of the...
by John Fulwider | Jun 6, 2015 | Strategic Planning
Use the quick exercise below to take a first stab at identifying your nonprofit’s business model, then get input from all the people who care about your organization to zero in on the best answer. For-profit executives use business models—such as “low-cost...
by John Fulwider | Jun 6, 2015 | Strategic Planning
Developing a useful strategy that holds everyone accountable to producing results requires an effective process that follows four guidelines: Trust the organization. An effective process doesn’t employ outside consultants to write the strategy—that’s a...
by John Fulwider | Jun 1, 2015 | Nonprofits
This: As a colleague of mine says, “When you don’t give a salary range, you’re saying that you’re only going to hire people who are married to people with professional salaries, young folks still supported by well-off parents, and the independently wealthy. The rest...
