Setting the Right Course: Planning Strategies for Dynamic Times will be offered in Jan 26 & Feb 2, 2011. Click here to register for that session .

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Instructor: Maura Harrington, PhD MBA & Belinda Madrid Teitel

Course Description
2 Day Series: October 25th & November 1st from 9:30am to 3:30pm
(Offered again January 25th and February 2nd)

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 two-day 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, Ph.D., MBA 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. She conducts workshops on participatory and self-evaluation methods to small nonprofit organizations. She received her doctorate from Claremont Graduate School in Applied Research in the Department of Psychology and her MBA from the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management. She is an active member of the American Evaluation Association and a Eureka Foundation Fellow.

Belinda Madrid Teitel brings skills from the nonprofit, business and governmental sector. She offers expertise in board development, fundraising and grantsmanship, training and organizational development, marketing and strategic planning.

Ms. Teitel is a capacity building consultant and trainer on a range of topics, including raising funds for foundations and corporations. Most recently, she was Vice President at Draper Consulting Group, a nationally recognized firm that serves both grantmaker and nonprofit institutions.

Prior to joining Draper Consulting Group in 1998, Ms. Teitel served as Southern California Director for Earth Share of California, a nonprofit federation of 90 premier local, state and national environmental organizations. During her seven year tenure, Ms. Teitel established Earth Share's presence in the Southern California region by recruiting, training and mobilizing volunteer board members, cultivating relationships with socially-conscious employers and initiating and participating in hundreds of employee charitable giving campaigns. During her career, Ms. Teitel formed extensive alliances in the nonprofit, business and governmental sectors throughout Southern California.