Strategic Planning for Nonprofit Organizations: A Practical Guide for Dynamic Times, 3rd Edition

Acknowledgments

The origins of this book were the worksheets Jude created for a training at the National Minority AIDS Coalition in the early 1990s. Although the ideas and presentation of the strategic planning process have been put to paper by the two of us, we gratefully acknowledge our debt to the many other consultants, writers, and friends who have kept us sane and contributed to our learning and to the field of planning over the past many years.

We think of all of our colleagues through the many years we both worked at CompassPoint as contributors to this book. We especially thank Jan Masaoka, long-time executive director for her creativity and innovative thinking about nonprofit management.

We are grateful to be able to share a series of cartoons, alternately ironic, playful or fanciful, from a collection titled “Planet 501c3; Tales from the Nonprofit Galaxy.” These cartoons were created by a now deceased very dear colleague, Miriam Engleberg.

A big thank you to Richard Fowler who created the new artwork for the planning framework and planning process.

Julia Wilson, executive director at OneJustice, gave us many, many hours over a period of months to make a major contribution to this edition by helping us draft the unfolding of the case study in the worksheets.

We acknowledge and appreciate the generosity of The Evelyn and Walter, Jr. Haas Fund for allowing us to share their Leadership Assessment Tool.

We thank Jennifer Chapman and Todd Manza, who provided invaluable ...