Strategic planning is crucial for your agency to have an actionable roadmap that supports your services. A strong strategic plan that includes actionable steps that are benchmarked and prioritized is necessary to maintain operations, sustain programs, and grow funding,
The MNC Strategic Plan provides a blueprint describing your agency, its services, the competitive environment, management team, financial health, and business risks. We ensure that the plan is easy to implement and follow so that it becomes a working document in support of your community efforts.
The Strategic Planning allow you to:
■Identify and describe the target client or donor profile, features, advantages and benefits of your operation, fund raising, program or service.
■Examine the board and its skill-sets, contributions, knowledge of mission and education about their roles and responsibilities.
■Formulate the agencies milestones including timelines for upcoming fund raising and services in development.
Projected plans allow you to effectively predict upcoming problems, or prevent them. The perspective gained through your Strategic Plan can make a significant contribution to your organization’s success, and help you get the funding you require. In fact, most granting institutions and private investors will not even talk to you without a solid financial plan showing the sustainability of your organization.
In addition, MNC assists nonprofits with several other planning needs, such as:
■Marketing plans, including full descriptions of targeted promotional campaigns with implementation timelines. You also get to examine market conditions, the nature of your clients or donors, as well as your competitors, penetration potential, and projected results of your marketing campaigns.
■Staffing plans, including identifying the key stakeholders, skills, attitudes and expertise needed to build the venture.
■Management plans including full descriptions of management systems and timelines for implementation.
■Financial plans including projected startup costs for individual programs, operating costs, revenue, profits, and break-even analysis for the first 3 to 5 years.
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