The Essential Strategic Plan

This workshop introduces the Essential Strategic Plan, a free, two-page template that helps small nonprofits complete a strategic plan with all the essentials, but only the essentials. It has four sections: 1) Guiding ideas; 2) Current assessment and critical strategic issues; 3) Strategic goals, objectives, and metrics; and 4) Business model statement. The two-page limit forces organizations to distill the plan to its essence, which is great discipline, makes that essence widely available in a form that is easy to read and review, and builds a bridge between the big picture and immediate operational needs. This workshop is for executive directors or board chairs of small and mid-sized choruses that can’t afford a full-featured strategic planning process, but know that strategic planning is essential.