The 10-Step Process to Facilitate Strategic Planning for Nonprofits
You’ve started to get prepared in the past, but you always get caught up in 24/7 virtual fires.
Nonprofit Strategic Planning is a process you’ve heard before, but you aren’t sure exactly what it means.
What and how do you actually do set a process for strategic plans for nonprofits?
That’s why I am going to go over a process to set up your annual planning via a step-by-step outline.
However, if you want the full breakdown to learn the process in a comprehensive way, including tons of downloadables, then you may want to check out the Nonprofit Strategic Planning Master Course!
Who is the strategic planning process for?
Nonprofit Leaders: This is for you if:
- You are burned out of the same old fundraisers
- You always miss the deadline for that ‘perfect’ grant
- You are overwhelmed of putting out virtual fires everyday instead of focusing on GROWTH for your nonprofit
Freelance Consultants: This is for you if:
- You are a consultant and want an easy-to-learn and easy-to-customize service to help those nonprofits get more funding
- You want multiple streams of income
- You want to learn clear action steps in a simple way that will make you the expert
Most nonprofits just do not set time aside for a planning process.
That is a huge flaw as Benjamin Franklin said,
“Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail.”
However, I get it. You don’t even know where to start.
Maybe you scrape together a few YouTube videos and a variety of downloadables and have a 200-page manual you might just get around to. Of course, we know that leads to overwhelm, confusion, and lack of true direction.
In this article you are going to learn:
- what all to include in your strategic planning,
- how to roll it out, and h
- ow it can benefit your nonprofit (or in the case of a freelance grant writer, the nonprofits you serve).
An Annual Strategic Planning Process helps to:
- eliminate overwhelm,
- burnout,
- and straying from mission.
It also helps to:
- increase sustainable income streams,
- advances mission,
- and in the case of freelance consultants adds another stream of income to your salary!