Posts Tagged ‘agency capacity’
Using a Strategic Plan for Capacity Development
. This post is one of a continuing series on strategic planning and is based on my work facilitating strategic planning with nonprofit agencies. In strategic planning one of my initial conversations with an agency executive director will invariably include a discussion about the use of the strategic plan following its ...Read More
Facilitating Beyond the Crisis in Thinking
. Typically, my posts try to capture original thoughts related to facilitation and process. This week, however, has been one of rich discovery and learning from the words of others. In this post, I am lacing together the knowledge of others in a synthesis of ideas to reinforce my practice foundation ...Read More
Facilitating a Capacity Building Process
. The economic downturn that occurred in the last couple of years has been unquestionably harsh on most nonprofit agencies. The increases in service demand, coupled with the decreases in revenues have created organizational strains and fractures that will linger for years to come. If there is any silver lining to ...Read More
Advancing Capacity of Organizations: A Strategic Conversation
. In one of the early posts to this blog I offered a taxonomy to help nonprofits think about organizational capacity, resource development planning and fundraising. In that post I described capacity development as the practice of developing and maintaining staff skills, organizational systems and intellectual and physical resources required to ...Read More
Strategic Planning: Defining the Strategic Agenda
. The first post in this series outlined the importance of aligning the culture of your organization with the framework used for strategic planning. In this post I want to discuss the importance of clarity of purpose and agenda before embarking on a strategic planning process. Without a clear focus at ...Read More
Four Board Membership Conversations
. I have outlined board frameworks elsewhere and this blog is a more practical companion. . While there are literally dozens of books, websites and blogs devoted solely to the topic of nonprofit boards it is still a common phenomenon for nonprofits to struggle to identify the strategic composition and functioning ...Read More
Data Drives Everything
. In addition to facilitation and process the recurring themes of this blog also include discussions of performance, measurement and agency capacity, with a focus on the government and nonprofit sector. Recently I was in a conversation with a colleague where we were discussing the keys to sustainable nonprofit growth. ...Read More
Agency Capcity, Resource Development Planning & Fundraising
. A few years back, I directed a larger national training project that worked extensively with non-profits on fundraising, capacity building, and resource development planning. One of the challenges of this work was that there was a surprising lack of a common vocabulary describing the the differences between the three terms. ...Read More
Board Development Strategy
. One of the common challenges that face many nonprofit agencies is creating a board that helps the organization grow and thrive. On the surface, the primary responsibilities of a nonprofit board are to provide oversight and governance to the agency. Generally agreed upon, governance includes: 1) planning and ...Read More