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Description
This 3-Part Series was originally recorded in January 2026. Register for access to the webinar recordings and materials.
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
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
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
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.
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About the Speaker
Kim is an organization and management consultant who partners with nonprofits to align people, purpose and planning for impact. She is a nonprofit practitioner and educator with over twenty years of experience and leadership in building the capacity of leaders and organizations. Kim has led nonprofits planning efforts from inside and out of multiple organizations; most recently at a global grantmaking nonprofit in her role as Executive Director, and as the chair of the strategic planning committee in a leadership development and environmental restoration organization.
Kim is a skilled educator and facilitator. Her passion for teaching dates back to her time as a teacher in the Solomon Islands as a Peace Corps volunteer. Back in the U.S., Kim spent close to a decade leading outreach initiatives at a global sustainability education organization. In that role, she presented over 200 workshops and keynotes at schools and conferences around the country. More recently, Kim has designed and facilitated board retreats, workshops on meeting facilitation, and strategic planning processes.
Currently Kim provides organizational development and management consulting services to nonprofits, partnering on strategy planning, theory of change development, board development, and meeting and retreat facilitation to increase program impact and achieve results. Kim has a Master of Public Administration degree and a Certificate in International Development Policy and Management from the Evans School of Public Affairs.
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