Field Guide to Nonprofit Strategic Planning and Facilitation

Why Should You Buy This Strategic Planning Book? There are many books that tell you what content should end up being in your strategic plan. However, there are few books that also tell you how to get that content in your strategic plan. Our book tells you how to facilitate a group of planners to customize the right content for the nature and needs of your organization. (Book review by Jane Garthson) Focus of Guidebook When members of nonprofit organizations struggle with their strategic planning process or their plan ends up not being useful at all, it is rarely because their planning process did not include state-of-the-art techniques in facilitation or the latest models in strategic planning. Rather, it is because their process 1) did not completely suit the nature and needs of the nonprofit and 2) did not thoroughly address all of the most critical, "core" aspects of strategic planning. Guidelines in this guidebook are focused on customizing and implementing an organization- or prog