Not-For-Profit Organizations
Strategy In Progress provides strategic planning, organization design and strategic facilitation services to substantive not-for-profit organizations. Distinctive from private businesses, Not-for-profit organizations often must address various dynamic factors in determining how to remain a viable service provider to its targeted audience. These factors include:
• Mission focus or mission creep
• Funding stream uncertainty and Fund development
• Role/Responsibility of Board
• Engagement/Lack thereof of Board and volunteer base
• Dynamic relationship between Senior Executive and the Board
• Extent of partnering with other Not for Profit organizations
• Community awareness/Messaging
• Attracting/retaining talent
At Strategy In Progress we have assisted many not-for-profit organizations who have dealt with some or all of the above dynamic factors facing not-for-profit organizations. An important first step in any successful strategic thinking engagement is to meet with both senior staff and Board leadership to define the planning need and develop a process that engages both Board and staff, as needed, to address the strategic issues facing the organization.
Below is a general list of the types of not-for-profit organizations to whom Strategy In Progress has provided strategic services.
• Regional convention and visitor’s bureau covering a four-county two-state area
• Bi-state economic development sales and marketing organization
• A large eastern Iowa county
• Joint planning initiative of three local chambers and bi-state economic development organization
• Eastern Iowa based social service organization for adolescent children and families with a for-profit entity
• Regional blood centers headquartered in eastern Iowa and in northwestern Illinois.
• An eastern Iowa continuing care retirement community
• Eastern Iowa community affordable housing initiative
• New regional business incubator center
• A large eastern Iowa county-wide ambulance service
• Local chambers of commerce
• Eastern Iowa area aging social services agency
• Western Illinois based social service facility for at-risk youth
• Regional community health care clinic
• Community Foundations
• The following amenity-based organizations:
o Regional heritage museum
o Regional botanical center
o Family museum o Community library
o Cultural arts center
o Regional symphony orchestra