Nonprofit Strategic Development

Times are tough!

The current economic crisis places even more stress on the already scarce funds and resources essential for your nonprofit organization to achieve its mission. With shrinking resources, more nonprofits and even small businesses are competing for government and private foundation funds. You may not be a business, but you cannot advance your cause without a strategic plan to develop and operate your organization.

As someone who has spent thirty years in a variety of positions in the nonprofit sector, I have seen many good causes go broke, lose focus, or develop serious internal conflicts that scuttled their efforts to provide services and benefits so sorely needed.

When the going gets tough, the tough get planning.

Even if your organization is surviving or even thriving right now, you need to continue to plan and grow to meet the current challenges to develop your organization.

As a nonprofit strategic development consultant, I can help you…

  • Assess your community needs and identify strengths and challenges in your organization related to those needs
  • Seek appropriate funding sources and construct competitive, targeted proposals most likely to succeed
  • Develop a visionary, yet realistic, strategic plan with clear goals, achievable and measurable goals and systems for monitoring and evaluating your progress
  • Maximize operations to increase efficiency and effectiveness
  • Refine budget systems and priorities to use those resources you already have to greatest effect and benefit
  • Improve relationships among your board members, your stakeholders and your employees and volunteers
  • Relieve you of the burden of planning logistics and processes so that you can concentrate on the important work you have set out to do

When resources are scarce, competition increases and accountability is even more important. I can help you identify those practices honed by for-profit enterprises that will enhance your mission-driven work. I have served in more than twenty states as a consultant, a manager, a policy advocate, and a lawyer, among other roles. The impact of nonprofits is far reaching, providing services to those most in need or those who, in turn, provide essential services to others. Take every measure; make every effort to insure that your organization continues to develop whether times are easy or tough.

Contact Spegman Consulting to discuss strategic development for your nonprofit.