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Four Dimensions of Nonprofit Growth

By mark On May 8, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Revenue Development, Strategic Planning
In the couple of pages found in this blog post it is impossible to create an in depth exploration of nonprofits growth models. However, it is hoped that by considering the typology of growth that your nonprofit can start the conversation among your staff and board and create the foundation for what growth means to your organization. As outlined above, being clear about how your organization plans to grow will influence your options for strategy, funding and operations.
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Nonprofit Strategic Thinking & Strategic Programming

On December 7, 2011 By mark
As strategic planning models became routine and accepted as a standard of practice, those who excelled in project management and repositioning content developed an a consultant industry of strategic planners who have emerged to bring expertise to “help” organizations create high impact plans. The secret that few consultants want to admit is that strategic planning is often reduced to a cookbook that illustrated with overused "fill-in-the blank" prescriptions that result in a unimaginative plans. Quite often, strategic planning is a simplistic reordering and renaming of existing strategy and approaches. Such a focus diminishes the value of strategic planning. This premise of the declining value of traditional strategic planning was identified over a decade ago in the seminal Harvard Business Review article titled, “The Fall and Rise of Strategic Planning” by Henry Mintzberg. Mintzberg's main criticism is that strategic planning often stymies strategy.
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Continuous Improvement: A Core Nonprofit Organizational Mindset

On October 19, 2011 By mark
Performance improvement is a critical nonprofit management competency to master. The rapidly changing times demand that nonprofit organizations focus myopically on developing the highest level of organizational functioning and still reach higher...
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A Strategic Response to Threats in the Nonprofit Sector

On October 13, 2011 By mark
I was cleaning my office the other day and came across a hand-sketched overhead transparency that I used as the basis for a keynote address to a conference of youth mentoring nonprofits that I delivered some seven or eight years ago. The conference theme was nonprofit sustainability and in the presentation I referenced five “Environmental Threats” facing nonprofit organizations. The list of threats predated the last economic earthquake (and ongoing aftershocks) and it scary to see how relevant and magnified these threats continue to be...
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Ten Steps for Building an Effective Nonprofit Board: A Checklist for Action

On August 11, 2011 By mark
This blog is in response to a couple of emails I received in response to my last post about how useful the information was. One question I received was "Do you have a checklist that we could use to help us in our next board meeting?" You asked. I deliver. In this post I present "Ten Steps for Building an Effective Nonprofit Board: A Checklist for Action" This free 12-page PDF document is not designed to be an exhaustive guide to developing and staffing a board. Rather is a practice-based assessment tool
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