Online: Strategic Planning in Nonprofits Series
Actionable steps to help shape a process right-sized for your organization
Online via Zoom
* Registration open until 6/1/27 at 12:00 PM (PDT)
Strategic planning can be a powerful process to guide the future of your nonprofit. There are many ways to approach strategic planning and there is no one-size-fits-all template. As you think about beginning a strategic planning process, you may have many questions about how to get started or how to improve upon past processes.
Pulling from a variety of strategic planning approaches and resources, Strategic Planning in Nonprofits (SPiN) is here to provide actionable information, tools, and activities to help you shape a process right-sized for your nonprofit. The 3-part SPiN webinar series will cover the six stages of a strategic planning process: Prepare, Listen, Envision, Plan, Implement, and Evaluate. You will leave with the tools and confidence to develop a strategic plan for your organization.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the value of strategic planning
- Become familiar with the SPiN process and work through the six stages
- Gain resources to assess the current state of your organization
- Assess the strength of your mission statement and know how to improve it
- Identify at least two next steps toward developing a strategic plan
- Access resources, templates, and activities to complete a strategic plan
Course Outline
Part 1: Getting Started with Strategic Planning – Introduction, Prepare, and Listen
Tuesday, June 01, 2027 | 12:00PM – 1:30PM PT
Understanding the what and why of strategic planning lays the groundwork for the six planning stages explored through SPiN. In Part 1, we will focus on the first two stages – Prepare and Listen. Through this session, you will articulate what you hope a strategic plan will accomplish for your organization, identify key planning questions, and think about who will be involved throughout your planning process.
Part 2: Your North Star – Envision and Plan
Tuesday, June 08, 2027 | 12:00PM – 1:30PM PT
Serving as an organization’s north star, the mission, vision, and values guide and inspire your work. Taking time to assess and affirm, or potentially revise, these key components is an essential part of strategic planning. During Part 2, we will focus on the Envision and Plan stages. You will be prepared to assess your nonprofit’s mission and vision statements, craft strategic priorities and objectives, and think about how your strategic plan may come together to best guide your organization.
Part 3: Rolling Up Your Sleeves – Implement and Evaluate
Tuesday, June 15, 2027 | 12:00PM – 1:30PM PT
Nobody wants a strategic plan that sits on a shelf or gets archived never to be referenced again. In Part 3, we will cover the Implement and Evaluate stages. To help bring your plan to life, you will learn about navigating change, aligning resources, and correcting course if needed. You will also gain information to support establishing an evaluation approach to monitor, assess, and learn across the life of your nonprofit’s new strategic plan.
Thanks to Our Partners
Presented by Nonprofit Association of Washington and the Washington Office of the Secretary of State.
Online: Strategic Planning in Nonprofits Series
Tuesday, June 01, 2027 | 12:00PM – 1:30PM PT
Part 1: Getting Started with Strategic Planning – Introduction, Prepare, and Listen
Tuesday, June 08, 2027 | 12:00PM – 1:30PM PT
Part 2: Your North Star – Envision and Plan
Tuesday, June 15, 2027 | 12:00PM – 1:30PM PT
Part 3: Rolling Up Your Sleeves – Implement and Evaluate
Online via Zoom- These webinars will be recorded
Cost
The complete 3 Part Series is:
$0 (Free!) for Members of Nonprofit Association of Washington
$30 for Not-yet-Members (Curious about NAWA membership? Get more info here!)
Cost should not be a barrier to participate. Please contact us to request a scholarship.
Who Should Attend
This workshop is aimed at Board Members, Executive Directors, and other nonprofit staff involved in the strategic planning process.
Recording
Each part of this series will be recorded. The recordings will be emailed to all registrants a few days after the conclusion of each webinar.
Breakout rooms will not be included in recordings.
Accessibility
Captioning: We will have automated captioning enabled.
Interpretation: Please indicate during registration if you have an interpretation request. Typically, we need at least two weeks in order to schedule an interpreter.
Visual Descriptions: Presenters will include visual descriptions of themselves and the slides to give a person who is low-vision, blind, or calling in without video a sense of space and place.
If you have additional accessibility requests, please let us know when you register.
Registration Options
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NAWA Members Only Registration
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Not-Yet- NAWA Members Registration
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Kim Rakow Bernier, MPA
Kim is an organizational development consultant and certified professional coach who partners with nonprofits to align people, purpose, and planning for impact. She co-developed and has led workshops on the Nonprofit Association of Washington's strategic planning workshop for almost a decade. She has led strategic planning, board, team and leadership development work with organizations across the country. With over thirty years in the social impact sector, as an executive director, board chair, facilitator, and coach, Kim brings both hands-on experience and a genuine curiosity about what helps each organization she works with grow into its next chapter. She holds an MPA from the University of Washington's Evans School of Public Affairs and an ACC from the International Coaching Federation.
Questions?
(855) 299-2922 x108