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[Word Wise] Does Your Strategic Plan Have These Elements?
March 28, 2013

Word Wise Newsletter

Helping You and Your Organization Get Powerful Results With Words

Volume 9, Number 3 ... ISSN: 1933-9690

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FEATURE: Does Your Strategic Plan Have These Elements?
A nonprofit strategic plan is a map that helps you make decisions for your organization. It answers these 3 key questions:
  1. Where are we now?
  2. Where are we going?
  3. How will we get there?
Your strategic plan is an ongoing work-in-progress … a map that you continue to hone, add to, and refine over time as you discover what programming works and what doesn’t in fulfilling your mission.

Make sure your map includes these four key elements:

  • Element #1: Vision, mission, and values
    What will you do (in the future – your vision)? What do you do now (mission)? What principles guide you as you do it (values)?
  • Element #2: Analysis
    What’s the problem that your organization works to solve? How does your organization uniquely solve that problem? In other words, would your presence be missed if you were not around?
  • Element #3: Strategy
    What activities do you undertake to fix the problem? What kind of budget do you need to do so … and how do you raise and sustain that budget?
  • Element #4: Evaluation
    What data funnel do you have in place to gather reliable outcomes? What process do you use to evaluate outcomes to see if they were effective?
Your leadership team should revisit your strategic plan anytime you make program or staffing decisions, and at pre-designated intervals for evaluation and reporting. Read more details about each of these elements and how to put them into practice here.

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Nonprofit Copywriter Freebie Roundup

We are always on the lookout for no-cost resources. And we love to pass them along to you, whether it’s webinars, downloads, ebooks, or courses. Here are the latest freebies posted recently on Nonprofit Copywriter.

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Finally . . . A Wise Word

"Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning."
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
American inventor

Read more wise words about work ethic for copywriters and nonprofit leaders.


That’s it for now. See you next time

Until then ... happy writing!






Kathy with Nonprofit Copywriter
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