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(This guide was formerly titled, "Nuts and Bolts Guide to Nonprofit Strategic Planning and Facilitation.")
When members of nonprofit organizations struggle with their strategic planning process or their plans ends up not being useful at all, it is rarely because their planning process did not include state-of-the-art techniques in facilitation or the latest models in strategic planning. Rather, it is because their process did not thoroughly address all of the most critical, "core" aspects of the strategic planning process. Guidelines in this guidebook are focused on those critical aspects.
Guidelines are focused on customizing and implementing an organization- or program-wide, strategic planning process for a nonprofit organization. Guidelines will show you, step-by-step, how to conduct a very complete, simplified (not simplistic!) strategic planning process that is very realistic, flexible and suited to the nature of the typical nonprofit organization - thus, producing a strategic plan that is also very relevant to the future of your nonprofit organization.
One of the most effective approaches to ensuring a highly relevant strategic planning process and plan is to ensure a highly effective approach to facilitating the planning process itself. Therefore, this guidebook also provides complete, step-by-step procedures for facilitating every aspect of nonprofit strategic planning -- one of the few strategic planning books, if any, to include that information for facilitators.
For a complete description of this guidebook, along with a detailed Table of Contents, go to:
http://www.authenticityconsulting.com/pubs/SP_gdes/SP_pubs.htm
