Create a winning strategic plan!

How do you reach your goals and make an impact when you're faced with funding cuts and increased competition? You'll find the answer in the Strategic Planning Workbook. With practical, step-by-step guidance and worksheets to develop your own plan, you'll learn how to:

• Solve a web of problems that are hard to address one-by-one
• Build teamwork, improve communication, and boost managerial skills
• Influence rather than be influenced--especially in this time of new federal cutbacks
• Survive--even thrive--with fewer resources
• Stimulate forward thinking and refocus your mission

You'll gain a sense of direction that will guide your choices about which opportunities to pursue and which to avoid.

New improvements make the workbook even more useful

Written by national strategic planning expert Bryan Barry, this updated edition builds on the original and adds new sections so that you get:

• Step-by-step guidance through the five planning phases and the critical ingredients of a sound plan
• Information on how to create a shared vision of your nonprofit's future to guide staff in making everyday choices
• Strategies to address problems and opportunities that the nonprofit sector now faces
• A new, more detailed sample of one nonprofit's actual three-year plan
• Tips for implementing and updating your plan
• Examples of how multiple organizations, coalitions, and communities can use strategic planning
• Easy-to-complete worksheets to help you develop your own plan, sell it to your colleagues, and measure results

In an environment of increased competition, funding cuts, and other pressures, strategic planning is a sound management tool for nonprofits. This workbook provides a guide for developing, implementing, and updating a strategic plan. Sample plan and blank worksheets are included.