Strategic Planning | North Carolina Center for Nonprofits

A Vision for Our Future

Jeanne Tedrow, President & CEO, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits

If your vision is for a year plant wheat, if your vision is for a decade plant trees, if your vision is for a lifetime plant people. –African Proverb

Creating a vision statement guides us into the future. It helps us reflect on where we have been as we consider the path forward. The Center has been on a multi-year journey to strengthen our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion, and we’re sharing our journey as we travel this road.

How Strategic Planning Affects the Success of Your Nonprofit

David Hutchinson, President, Cause Leadership

Strategic plans identify actions that enable you to achieve your organization's goals and mission. These plans often pinpoint high-priority directions and goals. Then, they determine the steps needed for meeting these goals and indicators used to measure success and are usually established for three to five years.

In this article, we assess how a strategic plan:

Our EDI Journey Continues

Jeanne Tedrow, President & CEO, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits

Successful Executive Transitions: EDI and the Executive Search

Patti Gillenwater, CEO, Elinvar

Successful Executive Transitions: Succession Planning in a Time of Uncertainty

Jeanne C. Tedrow, President & CEO, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits

Successful Executive Transitions: The Short-Term Plan

Jeanne C. Tedrow, President & CEO, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits

Rainbow Framework to Choose Program Evaluation Approaches

The BetterEvaluation.org website offers free information and downloads about the Rainbow Framework to help your nonprofit select the correct methods and processes for designing evaluations. It seeks to provide a means to clarify the purpose of conducting an evaluation (e.g.

Successful Executive Transitions: Relationships with the Board

Jeanne C. Tedrow, President & CEO, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits

Successful Executive Transitions: A Series on Embracing the Inevitable

Jeanne C. Tedrow, President & CEO, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits

Infuse Continuity Planning into Your Next Strategic Plan

These days, many organizations are asking themselves: Could we have been better prepared? While organizations use strategic planning to prepare for opportunities and challenges and to chart a course forward, nonprofits have spent 2020 adapting and evolving, and are taking a new look at future strategic planning needs.