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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The sudden onset of a crisis can pose an existential threat to your non-profit organization, especially since your reputation is your most ...

The Paso del Norte Community Foundation, Paso del Norte Health Foundation, and Fundación Paso del Norte are a family of ...

In fall of 2025, Meals on Wheels Rhode Island’s board of directors approved the organization's “Building Resilience, ...

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 ...

In June 2024, the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR) launched an ambitious strategic planning process. Now, after a year of engagement, we are proud to share our new five-year ...

Community emphasis, cost-consciousness, and planning horizon are distinguishing strategic characteristics of nonprofit and for-profit hospitals. This article appears in the July/August 2019 edition of ...