Developing an Integrated Financial Strategy
This is the second in a two-part series. Click here to read part one. Financial strategies meet organizations where they are (i.e. their strategic financial position on the Continuum of …
What is Your Strategic Financial Position?
Board members, Executive Directors, and senior nonprofit leaders have many responsibilities, but perhaps none is more important or pressing than financial management. Unfortunately, responsibility for managing the organization’s finances is …
Applying the Integrated Strategy: Part 3 – Capacity
This series of posts provides an overview of how A New Integrated Strategy for Success and Sustainability: The Impact Model applies to the unique issues and challenges of land trusts engaged in …
Applying the Integrated Strategy: Part 2 – Constituents
In my first post we explored how the first core component of the The Integrated Strategy for Success and Sustainability: The Impact Model – identity – applies to the unique issues and …
Applying the Integrated Strategy: Part 1 – Identity
Some portion of land trusts have always focused on working lands – such as active farmland or forests – because it is part of their mission and conservation strategy. However, …
Planning is not Strategy
Planning is Comfortable. Strategy isn’t. I am a big fan of the Harvard Business Review. Sometimes its articles make me feel cynical; others make me exclaim in delight. But “The …
The Meaning of Strategic
I am always amazed how frequently the word “strategic” is used – especially when it is used to describe plans, decisions, and actions that actually aren’t very strategic! In part, this happens …
Making your Strategic Plan Stick
Call it the post-planning let down. The excitement fades after the thrill and rush of the planning process. There’s another grant application to write, a board member with a great …
Be SMART to Get Where You Want to Go
If you don’t know where you’re going it’s not only hard to get there, it’s nearly impossible to know when (or if) you’ve arrived. When you boil it down, there …
Strategic Planning Simplified
The process associated with strategic planning often overshadows and undermines the usefulness of strategic planning as a tool. Overemphasizing process has led many to forget that effective strategic planning can help an organization: …