Event Details
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
9:00AM – 3:00PM PT
Walla Walla Airport Terminal Conference Room
Walla Walla, WA
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 full-day SPiN workshop 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.
You will leave ready to…
- Work through the six stages of a strategic planning process
- Assess the current state of your organization
- Assess and refine your mission statement
- Name at least one strategic priority for your organization
- Identify at least two next steps toward developing a strategic plan
- Access resources, templates, and activities to complete a strategic plan
A light lunch will be provided.
Cost
This workshop if free to attend, thanks to a partnership with Sherwood Trust.
Who Should Attend
Board members, executive directors, and other nonprofit staff or volunteers involved in strategic planning.
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 or blind a sense of space and place.
If you have additional accessibility requests, please let us know when you register.
About the Speaker
Gabriel Cruden
Whether you are a board member, staff member, or volunteer, Gabriel Cruden, Connections Consulting, wants your time and effort to be valued and to make a difference towards your mission. Gabriel has worked in the nonprofit, economic development, community development, education, and communications sectors. He has served as volunteer, staff member, executive director, grant writer, grant reviewer, and board member. Gabriel currently owns and publishes a regional magazine and sits on several boards, including the Leadership Council for the Innovia Foundation. He is passionate about connecting people and causes to the resources they need, especially in rural northeastern Washington.
Important Information about Safety and Health
To ensure the health and safety of attendees at our in-person events, NAWA will follow guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and local health authorities regarding infectious diseases such as COVID-19. These regulations may change rapidly, so please check current government guidelines for the event location before attending. Please do not attend an in-person event if you feel sick or are showing symptoms known to be associated with COVID-19 or another infectious disease. NAWA will provide masks at all in-person events and anyone attending should feel comfortable requesting or wearing one.
Thanks to Our Partner
Presented by Nonprofit Association of Washington in partnership with
Questions? Check out the event FAQ page or contact Nonprofit Association of Washington
Phone: (855) 299-2922 x108
Email: [email protected]