Instructor: Maura Harrington Annual Budget
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Day 3 of a three-part series (Dec. 17, Jan. 21, Feb. 18) What does your organization need to get from a strategic planning process and how do you go about designing a plan that meets those needs? In this three-part series we will look at how strategic fundraising planning and program evaluation work together to enhance your strategic planning process. The initial session will focus on setting a strategic direction for the organization.
Participants will focus on how a well-defined strategic planning process can benefit a nonprofit organization. Participants will:
* Identify desired outcomes from your strategic planning process
* Review the major steps of a strategic planning effort
* Distinguish between strategic and operational planning
* Clarify board and staff roles
* Consider the best process for your organization and who needs to be involved The second session will take the drafts developed from the first session and add a fundraising component as well as begin to look at the development of benchmarks and indicators of success. This Strategic Fundraising session will help participants to create a realistic strategic fundraising roadmap, rooted in multi-year budget projections, organizational priorities and a fund development plan with goals and benchmarks. In addition, participants will learn how to determine appropriate and measureable benchmarks to track progress and identify when refinements to the plan might be needed. As students focus on Program Evaluation, they will learn how to plan for an evaluation and use practical evaluation methods that can feed back to the planning process for organizational efforts and program success. Topics will include:
* Evaluation jargon
* Evaluation methods
* The interplay between planning and evaluation
* Specifying evaluation objectives
* Working with a consultant Interactive, small group exercises will focus on:
* Identifying which elements of a program to evaluate
* Designing program objectives and evaluation plans
* Choosing the appropriate methods
* Data collection methods
* Making sense and use of the data once collected Instructor's Bio
Maura J. Harrington is the Director of Consulting and COO at the Center for Nonprofit Management. Maura is the former Senior Associate at Lodestar Management/Research, Inc., a firm specializing in applied social research, program planning, program evaluation and management services. She has worked successfully with managers and employees to improve operational and program effectiveness, customer satisfaction and staff performance. Pricing Policy
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