Many organizations seeking donor investments make the mistake of only focusing on one type of revenue source – special event fundraising. Event fundraising most often is staff-draining, time-consuming, and lacks…
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Who ever heard of maximizing your strategic planning process by leveraging social media? Exactly! This is why your company should be doing just that. With minimal cost, your company can…
Your strategic plan should be your company’s living blueprint guiding today, tomorrow, and the foreseeable future – not a shelf ornament. Rather than a passive and difficult-to-digest document, a vibrant…
So, you’re embarking on your organization’s strategic planning process, leading the charge, and feeling far, far behind. You know you need to hire some outside help. But where do you…
An action-oriented strategic plan includes basic ingredients: The organization’s vision, mission, a succinct summary of external forces shaping competitive threats, an unvarnished assessment of the organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and…
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As a board member, this was the worst strategic planning session I had ever attended. At a fancy hotel conference room, a well-meaning facilitator started off a half-day strategic planning…
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One of the joys of my professional life is gathering leaders to share collective wisdom from lessons learned, whether it’s at a community symposium or in one of my Arizona…