A well-documented strategic plan can provide a roadmap to your nonprofit’s success. The process itself allows your board, staff and key stakeholders to outline your organization’s most important ...

Jackie Jaakola is the Director of EveryCat Health Foundation, the world’s leading nonprofit focused solely on feline health research. Business leaders engage in some type of strategic planning daily.

Uncertainty is inevitable—but strategic action is a choice. Nonprofit leadership today requires navigating a world of constant change—shifting funding streams, political pressures, rising community ...

As Time editor and film critic Richard Nelson Corliss once wrote, “Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday’s vision of the future.” Ever since the first U.S. deaths from Covid-19 a year ago, the world ...

Just because the future is unpredictable does not mean a nonprofit organization shouldn’t plan ahead, write the authors of this book. Michael Allison and Jude Kaye, both consultants with CompassPoint ...

PlanPerfect, the strategic planning software platform for nonprofits, today announced the release of PlanPerfect 2.0. The update builds on the company’s mission to empower nonprofits to scale their ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Jo Ann Herold As a ...

In his seminal book, “Reinventing Strategy,” Willie Pietersen says, “Strategic planning is an oxymoron.” Strategy is one thing; planning quite another, Pietersen claims. He explains that strategy ...

In the nonprofit sector, many organizations operate without a strategy or written annual plan. Even some small-to-midsize businesses (SMBs) have avoided the task of developing written plans, focusing ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Strategic planning is an organization’s process of defining its strategy or direction and making decisions on allocating its resources to ...