Nonprofits Evolution: Overcoming Barriers
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008Do you want to changed the business environment of your organization? Try the outline below.
- List Your Barriers and Challenges
- Evolution of the Non-Profit Business Environment (Supporters Working Together) List supporters.
- Donors
- Foundations
- State
- Federal
- City/Town
- Community
- Individuals
- Your Organizations Assets
- Successful Approaches and Innovative Strategies
- Strategic Planning (Why do you exist? Whom do you not serve? Why do you not serve them? Why do you do things the way you do? Whom do you consider a competitor? When was the last time you asked a person you served what’s missing?)
- Whom do you serve: Geography, community, age and service type. Who shows up in the Service Plan?
- Day Job Syndrome (What is the organization’s capacity to change, evolve, develop vs. the day to day job)
- Maximizing Assets (Review your people, organization, effort, space, allocation of costs, labeling, cost allocation plan, assignment of job function, etc)
- Systematic Evaluation at Intake (How is it done thorough out the organization?)
- Cross Pollination of Expertise
- Continuous Quality Improvement
- Thinking Out of the Box
- Defining Outcomes
- Branding
- Co-location of Programs
