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Strategic Planning

Strategic planning is a management tool used to help an organization do a better job. Strategic planning can help an organization to focus its vision and to ensure that members of the organization are working toward the same goals.

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Overview and Guides to Strategic Planning
The Management Assistance Program for Nonprofits offers links to strategic planning resources at the Free Management Library(SM). Links include information about strategic planning and even a model template for a strategic planning document.
http://www.managementhelp.org/plan_dec/str_plan/str_plan.htm

Idealist.org offers an overview of strategic planning and how it can be useful for nonprofits.
http://www.idealist.org/if/idealist/en/FAQ/QuestionViewer/default?section=03&item=22

Strategic Planning: Some Lessons Learned about What Does and Doesn't Work
This two page article by TCC Group covers what a strategic plan is and what it is not and discusses some of the questions and issues to think about when starting a strategic planning process. This is a great short article for board members who are embarking on strategic planning.
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Strategic Planning in Smaller Nonprofit Organization: A Practical Guide for the Process byJan W. Lyddon, Ph.D. of Western Michigan University is designed to help board members and the staff of smaller nonprofit organizations develop strategic plans that can help them strengthen and sustain their organization's achievements. The guide offers an overview as well as detailed instructions on a structured strategic planning process.
http://www.wmich.edu/nonprofit/Guide/guide7.htm

The Strategic Planning Manual
The Strategic Planning Manual by Frank Martinelli offers an overview and process for strategic planning.

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Home Grown Knowledge
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Learning Organizations
Marty Jacobs of Systems in Sync is writing a seven-part series on organizational learning. On her website, Ms. Jacobs writes, "To paraphrase Peter Senge from The Fifth Discipline, the learning organization is an organization that deliberately plans to learn and establishes systems and processes to capture and use learning to continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire. It is a place where people are continually learning how to learn together, and it creates a culture which embraces systems thinking, the fifth discipline. Learning organizations also embrace the other four disciplines: Personal mastery, Mental models, Buidling shared vision and Team learning"

The articles are available online.

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