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Strategy
The goals of your organisation will be set by the interplay between the services and products you are equipped to provide and the needs of the community you serve.
When starting a not-for-profit organisation, you should always conduct an assessment of your community and its needs to make sure the work you want to do is needed and that it will work. This assessment shouldn't only happen once though, and not-for-profit organisations should be regularly ensuring that the work they are doing is both needed and will make an impact.
This page hosts tools and resources to help you develop and update your strategy.
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All help sheets
Experiment tracker
In not-for-profit governance, bold ideas often rise and fall on enthusiasm alone. A charismatic…
Feasibility analysis help sheet
One of the most exciting aspects of leading a social enterprise is coming up with innovative new…
Helpsheet: Supporting staff to deliver strategy
CEOs are regularly presented with new ideas, opportunities, projects and partnership proposals.…
Helpsheet: Using a shared decision-making framework
Boards and leadership teams are often required to make decisions where there are competing…
Helpsheet: Using the three horizons framework as a CEO
The three horizons framework helps leaders balance immediate organisational needs with long term…
Mergers: A Primer for the Not-for-Profit Sector
The public worries about not-for-profit inefficiencies, and especially about teeth-to-tail ratios –…
Ten questions every board director should ask about change management
Change is something to embrace when we have chosen it ourselves. However when change has been…
Tools
Membership changes reflection tool
Over the (hopefully) long life of an organisation, the nature and size of the membership is likely…
Shared decision making framework
Empowering community boards and committees to make better, fairer decisions Decision-making in…
All checklists
Members Only
10 key areas to renew, review and refresh
It's easy to carry on doing the same thing 'because that's the way we do it'. To avoid the pitfalls…