Begin with a clear view of current conditions
Begin free with readiness, environmental scanning, current state, and strategic goals, so your plan is grounded in reality.
Give your board and team a clear path forward through an expert-guided, 11-phase process that produces a board-ready plan; Phases 0–3 are available free.
Start your plan freeSee the 3-step processDefine the primary goals that will move your organization forward.
In this phase you will:
You bring the mission and organizational knowledge, while the Planner provides the process, prompts, and structure.
Begin free with readiness, environmental scanning, current state, and strategic goals, so your plan is grounded in reality.
Follow practical prompts, examples, and proven tools through all 11 phases, at a pace that works for your team.
Download a board-ready plan with priorities, measures, and an implementation path your organization can use.
The guided process is designed for small teams, and you can begin free before continuing at your own pace.
Explore all 11 phasesStep-by-step guidance, real examples, and built-in prompts help you build a strategic plan your team can actually use.
See how it worksFocus on your team, programs, relationships, systems, and resources.
All plans include lifetime access to the Planner and all 11 phases.
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I am Dr. David L. Harkins, an organizational development consultant and the founder of Human Works Group. After years of facilitating strategic planning processes for small nonprofits, I continued to see organizations doing critical community work without the strategic clarity their work deserved. I believe that strategic planning works best when it creates a responsive toolset that helps a nonprofit sustain itself in a dynamic marketplace.
The Nonprofit Strategic Planner makes the same OD-grounded, equity-centered, capacity-realistic process I use with clients accessible to any small nonprofit willing to do the work. A defined and useful business planning process should be available to nonprofit organizations regardless of size; that belief led me to build this Planner.
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