Exciting, energizing, engaging… Would you guess this describes strategy work? Learn how to get you, your board, and your staff aligned about what matters most: Your organization’s future.

In an effort to get you as a nonprofit leaders to face “worst case scenarios,” here’s a template you can use to think through challenges that could befall your organization.

Template: People, Narrative

This Quick Win is designed to help you introduce a basic program evaluation into your nonprofit.

Quick Win: Programs

The members of the Village have been asking for me to help to clarify the distinctions between these things for some time.

Course: Strategy

Analyze your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Ask these questions and then dig on the answers that are unclear, too vague, or aren’t really getting to the heart of the matter.

Quick Win: People

In this masterclass, Kathleen Kelly Janus shares her “theory-of-change” playbook for nonprofit organizations based on an amazing five-year research project interviewing hundreds of top performing social innovators.

Course: Strategy

In this Masterclass, Lindsay Hoffman teaches us how (and why) to create and use a Logic Model diagram for a program.

Course: Programs, Strategy

A funder has an idea. It comes with a check. This resource is intended to give you the tools you need to figure out if you should say “yes” or “no.”

Resource: Programs

An 9-part mini-course that will walk you step-by-step through an effective strategic planning process even if your resources are very limited.

Course: Strategy

This guide is the checklist you probably don’t want to download. But please do so anyway. It’s like buying insurance. You hope it was a waste of money and you never use it. But you should buy it all the same.

Template: People, Narrative