A well-documented strategic plan can provide a roadmap to your nonprofit’s success. The process itself allows your board, staff and key stakeholders to outline your organization’s most important ...

The phrase “strategic planning” can spark fear and frustration in executive directors and boards of directors – but both the process and product can be empowering for organizations that take the time ...

Jackie Jaakola is the Director of EveryCat Health Foundation, the world’s leading nonprofit focused solely on feline health research. Business leaders engage in some type of strategic planning daily.

As Time editor and film critic Richard Nelson Corliss once wrote, “Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday’s vision of the future.” Ever since the first U.S. deaths from Covid-19 a year ago, the world ...

While nonprofit and for-profit corporations operate in similar ways, there are often subtle operational differences. One significant place they differ is strategic planning. Although both use the same ...

Just because the future is unpredictable does not mean a nonprofit organization shouldn’t plan ahead, write the authors of this book. Michael Allison and Jude Kaye, both consultants with CompassPoint ...

Uncertainty is inevitable—but strategic action is a choice. Nonprofit leadership today requires navigating a world of constant change—shifting funding streams, political pressures, rising community ...

Strategic management deals with the long-term goals of a business rather than the day-to-day operations. These plans often make projections that extend three to five years out. In addition to creating ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Strategic planning is an organization’s process of defining its strategy or direction and making decisions on allocating its resources to ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In a fast-paced business world, it’s easy to fall into the trap of trying to do everything as quickly as possible. However, this can lead ...

Community emphasis, cost-consciousness, and planning horizon are distinguishing strategic characteristics of nonprofit and for-profit hospitals. This article appears in the July/August 2019 edition of ...