by Shelli Bischoff | Nov 13, 2019
Can you answer these questions? If you answered all the questions and you put them all together, do they make sense as a whole? How does your strategic plan relate to your marketing and communications plan, your fundraising plan, your organizational development...
by Shelli Bischoff | Jul 9, 2019
An organization is a system. When all parts of the system work in harmony, or synergy, with one another, you get a beautifully performing mission-driven organization. When there are organizational components—for example, programs, marketing, and communications, or the...
by Shelli Bischoff | Jul 3, 2019
Do you really need a business plan? When was the last time you took a critical look at all aspects of your organization—your programs or services, your members or constituents, your staffing, your systems? Are you thinking about succession issues? Are your funders...
by Shelli Bischoff | May 29, 2019
One of the most frequent requests we get from executive directors, managers, and employees is to help them set priorities. The request, on the surface, is logical. Somehow, if we just all knew, and agreed to priorities, it would solve the not-enough-time-in- the-day...
by Shelli Bischoff | Jul 24, 2018
Not all organizations can go-to-scale, but all organizations have inflection points when getting to the next level is appropriate—or even imperative. The term “next level” is generally associated with an organization’s lifecycles, moving from one stage to another like...
by Karen Buck | Nov 10, 2016
A new client asked me a great question the other day: What can my board do now to get the most out of our strategic planning process next year? Our talk reminded me that for many nonprofits there is a lag between making the decision to engage in planning and starting...
