Nonprofit organizational development versus strategic planning

Let's review common challenges and obstacles nonprofit teams experience when setting key results.

Too often, nonprofit strategies are viewed as binding. Leadership and staff covet them as the answer for the future, the community embraces them as such, and boards view them as a way that [...]

Gaining alignment for your nonprofit’s marketing, fundraising or strategic plan goals (which we call pillars) starts with how you structure your process to include all of your [...]

Marketing and communications are mission critical.  They’re the forces that help people understand what your nonprofit does, why it matters, and how they can get involved. Effective marketing and [...]

You may be familiar with our article, Why We May Not Respond to Your Nonprofit’s RFP. I want to address this topic specifically as it relates to strategic planning request for proposals. In [...]

Creating a successful marketing, fundraising, program or strategic plan for your nonprofit organization goes far beyond the creation of the deliverable itself. The development process is as [...]

Pillars and OKRs are the two most powerful elements at the heart of every nonprofit strategic plan, marketing plan and fundraising plan we develop. Together, they help organizations focus their [...]

A nonprofit theory of change and logic model are two distinctly different tools that work together, yet are often confused.

Authentic, effective stakeholder engagement begins with getting super clear about who your organization’s stakeholders are, and then working to understand how interested and accessible they are [...]