Driving Strategic Planning: A Nonprofit Executive's Guide

Only nonprofits that plan ahead will succeed in the emerging economy Create the ideal framework for your board and staff to focus energy and resources toward common goals. BoardSource's newly updated Driving Strategic Planning: A Nonprofit Executive's Guide, Second Edition provides insight into the process to help you clarify where your organization is going, how it's going to get there, and how it will know when it's arrived. The book will help you steer your organization's key stakeholders in the same direction with respect to priorities and long- and short-term objectives. Driving Strategic Planning will help you - successfully obtain board support and participation - engage the right stakeholders at the right times - identify and manage the various phases in the process After reading this book, you will have - clarity about what strategic planning is and is not - an understanding of why it is important