Activities for the Prepare Stage
The following activies are pulled from the SPiN Guide and Workbook. These are ideas for you to use during the Prepare stage.
First Strategic Planning Meeting Resource
Use this resource to help you plan your first strategic planning team meeting.
Organization Origin Story Worksheet
Use this worksheet to help craft a short narrative of your nonprofit’s origin story.
SPiN Stage: Prepare
SPiN Process Overview Timeline Sample
This sample SPiN overview timeline aligns with the six process stages and is provided as a basis for discussion to ...
SPiN Timeline Sample Template
This strategic planning timeline sample template aligns with the six process stages and is provided as a basis for ...
Strategic Planning Check-In Activity
Use this activity with your strategic planning team, staff, board or volunteers as you begin the process.
Strategic Planning Team Charter Resource
Use this resource to help you create a charter for your strategic planning team.
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Additional Resources for the Prepare Stage
Review strategic plan samples to help you decide on your own strategic plan components and provide a model to work toward. Look for examples online or ask partner organizations about their strategic plans. You can find Nonprofit Association of Washington’s Strategic Plan here.
Learn more about decision-making frameworks and considerations through the following articles:
- Liberatory Decision-Making: How to Engage in a Healthy Process by Ananda Valenzuela, RVC Seattle
- Sick of Both Consensus and Hierarchical Decision-Making? There is a Third Way by Ananda Valenzuela, RVC Seattle
- The Consent Principle by Circle Forward
- Using Fair Process to Make Better Decisions by The Management Center
- MOCHA Framework: How to Assign Responsibilities by The Management Center
- Modes of Decision-Making by The Management Center