Nonprofit Strategy Now

This post is part of our “Nonprofit Strategy Now” series: reflections on nonprofit strategy development in 2020 by Jenny Kramm, Collectivity Senior Consultant

Reflections on nonprofit strategy development in 2020 

You might be coming up on your strategic planning cycle, or have put it off because you’ve been dealing with a pandemic and the pain in our community related to George Floyd’s murder.

You need a plan, but it’s hard to know where to start. 

We developed this blog series for nonprofit organizations in Minnesota that are making strategic choices about their organization’s future while advancing their organization's racial equity journey.  The following posts will delve into two key questions, and five key choice points that you may be encountering as a nonprofit organization today making strategic choices.  

1. What do we know to be true, and what is the essence of our mission?

2. What are we noticing about our organization in light of the response to the murder of George Floyd?

3. What are the choices that we need to make now? What are the choices we could be making now? Choice points: 

   1. Programs and Services

   2. Finances

   3. Governance

   4. Strategic alliances

   5. Operations and technology

Our team of Collectivity facilitators can help you prioritize and make decisions about the strategic choices facing your nonprofit today. 

Thank you to the thought leaders that have informed our thinking on this topic:

Gordon Goodwin, Race Forward 

Beverly Bushyhead, Bushyhead Consulting 

Robin Stacia, Sage Consulting Network

Vernetta Walker, Vernetta Walker & Associates Consulting, Inc. 

Jamie Millard, Pollen

Dr. Kathleen Allen, Leading from the Roots

Steph Jacobs, Trailblazer Leadership 

Jamie Schumaker, LISC 

Kate Barr, Propel Nonprofits