Strategy & Planning for Nonprofits and Foundations

How far could you go if everyone was rowing in the same direction?

Strategic Planning is essential to ensure that your stakeholders are aligned around a shared vision of the future and can mobilize the resources necessary to achieve your goals and objectives. We’ve partnered with 100+ organizations to create strategic plans and align internal stakeholders to accomplish their vision. PENN Creative Strategy helps organizations unlock their full potential.

Our approach to strategic planning acknowledges that we are operate in a VUCA context (Volitatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity).  Within that context, conversations about future directions evoke passionate responses - we tap into and channel the human aspirations to ensure they facilitate the development of bold strategy - strategy with soul.  Strategic planning done well, is about creating change - a new story.  Change management is a piece of strategic planning that must be intentionally addressed as part of operationalizing the plan.

We work with organizations to make explicit which voices will have what kind of influence over the planning process.  In this way, we help our clients build transparency around the process, which engenders trust in the results.

As experts in strategic planning, PENN Creative Strategy helps organizations develop actionable plans that help you amplify your mission impact to ensure your organization is well-positioned to meet the challenges of a changing world.

 

Nonprofit strategy

Strategic planning tells you where you’re going and how to get there.

Aligning people around a shared vision through strategic planning can have a significant and far-reaching impact on any organization. Organizations can identify and analyze opportunities for growth, create strategies for taking advantage of those opportunities, and create a roadmap to guide putting your ambitious plans into action right away.

Our STRATEGY & PLANNING work includes:

  • Strategic planning
  • Mergers & partnerships
  • Business planning
  • Scenario planning
  • Annual planning
  • Implementation planning
  • Strategic coaching
  • Strategy implementation
  • IDEA strategic planning
  • Theory of change
  • Fundraising strategy
  • Feasibility studies

Interested in getting training for your staff? Check out our trainings here.

Featured Articles

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What Does A Strategic Plan Cost?

by Molly Penn Strategic Planning is a term that gets used fairly frequently, but not always to refer to the same work.  As an example, lately we’ve gotten requests for strategic plans ranging from budgets of $15,000 to $150,000.   This describes a completely different scope of work.  Consulting is a time-driven business – we charge […]
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How to Create a Strategic Plan

Ever wonder what strategic planning is or how to do it? This post is for you!

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Transformational Strategic Planning

by Molly Penn What do we mean by “transformational” strategic planning? That’s a word that gets thrown around rather easily these days.  So what does it mean in the context of strategic planning?  It refers to a level of wholesale change that is deeper than just refreshing your strategy.  It speaks to an intention to […]

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