Full-Service Nonprofit Strategic Planning
Your Strategic Planning Partner, From Research Through Rollout
With full-service strategic planning, you’ll partner with our expert team to build your most effective strategic plan ever, from research through implementation, grounded in the priorities of your stakeholders and based on the Shared Power™ philosophy.
Strategic planning is too important to leave to chance. With this strategic planning pathway, Prosper’s expert advisors Alyssa Conrardy and Lindsay Mullen manage every aspect of the process, bringing together stakeholder perspectives, research, facilitation expertise, and proven planning tools to help your organization build a clear, actionable roadmap for the next three to five years.
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When the stakes are high, you need a strategic planning partner to ensure you develop the most effective plan possible.
Prosper Strategies’ full-service strategic planning engagements are built for nonprofits that want a trusted, expert partner to go deep with their organization and lead a stakeholder-centered strategic planning process end-to-end. We lead the research. We design and lead stakeholder engagement. We facilitate the retreat. We help you build the plan, the OKRs, and the implementation systems, and we stay with you through rollout. Your team is fully involved throughout, but you don’t have to manage the process. We do. And we ensure that every decision you make is in the best interest of the people and communities you serve.
Full-service strategic planning starts at $70,000.
Who Is Full-Service Strategic Planning For?
Full-service strategic planning is designed for large, growing, or complex nonprofits that want a comprehensive, deeply collaborative, stakeholder-centered planning process and an advisor who will lead it with them from beginning to end.
This is the right fit if your organization:
- Wants a trusted partner to lead the process so your team can focus on participation, not management.
- Is ready to invest in a rigorous, research-grounded, community-centered planning process.
- Wants deep expertise in Shared Power™ strategic planning applied to your specific organizational context.
- Is seeking a plan that is not just well-crafted, but genuinely informed by the people you serve.
- Needs a plan that is built to be implemented and get results.
Best for complex planning moments
Full-service strategic planning is especially useful when your organization is growing, navigating change, managing a complex stakeholder ecosystem, preparing for a major shift, or trying to align board, staff, funders, partners, and community around a shared direction.
It is also the right fit when the stakes are high and your team needs expert advisors to design, facilitate, synthesize, document, and support implementation of the full process.
How Full-Service Shared Power™ Strategic Planning Works
Full-service is our most comprehensive engagement, and our most collaborative. Every step of the process is grounded in our Shared Power™ philosophy: boards governing, staff leading on expertise, funders enabling the mission, and the people you exist to serve at the center of every decision.
We do not hand you a plan at the end. We build one with you, based on the priorities of your stakeholders, and we build it in a way that your whole organization can own, implement, and be accountable to.
What's Included
In full-service strategic planning engagements, we lead every element of the strategic planning process while your team collaborates with our guidance to make critical decisions and finalize its strategic plan. This includes:
Typical investment: Starting at $70,000, depending on organizational size, stakeholder complexity, geographic footprint, research scope, and implementation needs.
Why Shared Power™ Strategic Planning Works
Most strategic planning fails not because organizations lack ambition, but because the planning process does not involve the right people in the right ways. Boards and funders drive the priorities. Staff implement a plan they did not shape. The people the organization exists to serve are consulted only at the onset of the process, if at all.
Shared Power™ Strategic Planning is built on a different premise: that the people most affected by your mission should help shape the strategy. When stakeholders are involved meaningfully before, during, and after planning (not just surveyed at the beginning) they become advocates for the plan, not bystanders to it.
Implementation becomes a shared commitment rather than a leadership directive. And most importantly, your nonprofit begins truly making a meaningful difference for the people you serve, showing up for them where they need you most.
That is what we build in a full-service strategic planning engagement. It is why our clients’ plans do not just get implemented. They meaningfully move missions forward.
Ready to build a strategic plan your whole organization can own?
If your nonprofit needs a comprehensive, stakeholder-centered planning process led by experienced nonprofit strategy consultants, start with a discovery call.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Full-Service Strategic Planning
What is Shared Power™ Strategic Planning?
Shared Power™ Strategic Planning is Prosper Strategies' proprietary approach to nonprofit strategic planning. It rebalances power in the planning process so that the people and communities your nonprofit exists to serve have meaningful influence over your strategy, not just token representation.
It gets everyone into the right roles: boards governing, staff leading on expertise, funders enabling the mission, and constituents at the center. The result is a plan your whole organization can own and implement to make a difference where it’s needed most for the people you serve.
How long does full-service strategic planning take?
Most full-service engagements run four to six months from kickoff through implementation planning, depending on the scope of stakeholder engagement and the organization's timeline.
What's the difference between full-service and facilitation-only?
In full-service engagements, Prosper Strategies leads the stakeholder engagement process and manages every aspect of the planning process end to end. In facilitation-only, your team conducts stakeholder interviews and surveys with our guidance and develops aspects of the strategic plan on your own. We focus our work on the retreat and key planning sessions.
Full-service is right for organizations that want a deep partner to lead every aspect of the planning process. Facilitation-only is right for organizations with strong internal capacity who want to own more of the process themselves.
Do you work with nonprofits outside of your local area?
Yes. We work with nonprofits nationwide, and occasionally internationally. Virtual engagements are available across all service tiers. In-person retreat facilitation is available for full-service and facilitation-only engagements.
How do I know if full-service is the right fit?
The best way to find out is a discovery call. We'll talk through your organization's size, goals, timeline, and budget and help you identify which planning option — Toolbox, workshops, facilitation-only, or full-service — is the right fit. No pressure, just a real conversation.
Who from Prosper will be on my strategic planning team?
Your strategic planning process will be led by one of our founders and principals, Alyssa Conrardy or Lindsay Mullen (sometimes both). We've been doing this work for over a decade and understand what it takes to build an effective, stakeholder-centered strategic plan better than anyone in the industry. On occasion, we may also bring in one or more of our trusted consulting partners for specific subject matter expertise, identity alignment with the people you serve, or both. We have a bench of trusted partners with expertise in everything from financial management to HR.