Nonprofits

Strategic Planning Initiative

Contracted strategic planning experts work with nonprofit organization board and staff members to provide individualized strategic planning consulting services.

The most effective capacity building begins with a thorough assessment of the needs and assets of the nonprofit and the community in which it operates. Improved operations through the development of a comprehensive strategic plan, annual operating plan and a process for board monitoring of plan implementation are critical components required to enhance the capabilities of nonprofits to achieve long-term sustainable and demonstrable impact.

Consulting Overview:

Strategic organization assessment of:
- leadership structures
- operations/infrastructures
- quality of services
- fiscal responsibility
- human resources policies and practices
- marketing and community
- learning/innovation
Strategic planning process, including:
- clarity of mission and values of organization
- vision of organization
- strategies and goals charting for future of organization
- actionable plan for strategy implementation
- annual strategic cycle
- road map to build a long-term funding model
Assessment of quality and efficiency of programs/services with measurable improvement and/or growth plans
A system to collect and use outcomes information as a management/board monitoring tool

Ongoing (follow-up) technical support assists participating organizations in achieving optimum results.

The Leader’s Guide to Strategic Planning

Institute strategic planning assistance is based upon the Leader’s Guide to Strategic Planning developed by Novus, LLC. The Leader’s Guide is designed to be used with a Novus, LLC planning consultant who will provide leadership throughout the process the first time the guide is used and then in subsequent years the Executive Director of an organization will generally assume this responsibility.

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Strategic Planning Trainer

Eric Monson is the Managing Partner of Novus, LLC, and has over 20 years experience providing strategic business consulting services to nonprofit organizations and private businesses. Novus, LLC is a private, full-service strategic business consulting firm specializing in nonprofit and social services agencies that helps its clients achieve sustainable results by providing innovative, integrated and well-defined solutions to complex business problems.

Novus has a talented and experienced team of professionals who provide a wide spectrum of management services tailored to the specific needs of clients, such as developing organizational effectiveness tools, conducting organizational assessments, capacity building, sustainability, board governance and executive leadership, financial management, and fundraising. Novus’s team brings over 100 years of combined experience to this project.

In collaboration with Impact Foundation and Dakota Medical Foundation, since 2005 Novus has provided organizational assessment and strategic planning technical assistance to 35 nonprofit organizations.