Time to raise the bar on nonprofit strategic planning and implementation

摘要

The nonprofit community faces a growing demand from stakeholders for outcome measures and proof of impact tied to a sustainable organization model. Achieving these new levels of accountability pose particular challenges for the large number of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) already struggling to meet complex missions while facing severe resource and personnel constraints. Too often, their ability to demonstrate impact on their communities is hampered by a lack of clearly defined goals and outcomes, the absence of a process for tracking progress and the lack of a system for creating and updating meaningful reports about what they are doing and why it matters.