NPCA Looks to the Future with Strategic Plan - 2009 - 2011 - Phase III - A Plan for the Future
Read and comment on the Strategic Plan for the NPCA presented at the Board of Directors meeting on January 31 and endorsed by the Board on February 1. The Plan emphasizes improving what NPCA offers its members and strengthening NPCA's relationship with its group affiliates. PCOL will have an interview with NPCA President Kevin Quigley in our next issue that addresses each of the elements of the Strategic Plan in more detail. For now, read the plan and leave your comments below at:
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NPCA presents Strategic Plan
2009 - 2011 - Phase III - A Plan for the Future - Goals
Goals
Aggressively taking advantage of 50th anniversary milestone to strengthen the NPCA value proposition
2009 - 2011 - Phase III - A Plan for the Future - Programs
Programs
Service-help identify and scale best practice programs
Global Education-"go to resource"
Advocacy-delivering results that matter on PC community issues
2009 - 2011 - Phase III - A Plan for the Future - Development
Development
Generate resources needed to support more robust NPCA
Active and public capital campaign
Extensive planned giving
2009 - 2011 - Phase III - A Plan for the Future - Events
Events:
Director’s Circle Weekends, DC-March 2009, 2010, 2011
Regional Conference-Spring 2010
Salute To Service-September 22, 2009, 2010, 2011
50th Anniversary Events beginning in 2010
2009 - 2011 - Phase III - A Plan for the Future - Projections
By 2011--Budget: $5 million
Staff: 20 FTE
Membership: 21,000
Background on Strategic Planning and on the Strategic Plan for the NPCA
A Strategic plan is document used by an organization to align its organization and budget structure with organizational priorities, missions, and objectives. Astrategic plan should include a mission statement, a description of the agency's long-term goals and objectives, and strategies or means the agency plans to use to achieve these general goals and objectives. The strategic plan may also identify external factors that could affect achievement of long-term goals.
There are a variety of perspectives, models and approaches used in strategic planning. The way that a strategic plan is developed depends on the nature of the organization's leadership, culture of the organization, complexity of the organization's environment, size of the organization, expertise of planners, etc. For example, there are a variety of strategic planning models, including goals-based, issues-based, organic, scenario (some would assert that scenario planning is more a technique than model), etc.
Goals-based planning is probably the most common and starts with focus on the organization's mission (and vision and/or values), goals to work toward the mission, strategies to achieve the goals, and action planning (who will do what and by when).
Issues-based strategic planning often starts by examining issues facing the organization, strategies to address those issues, and action plans.
Organic strategic planning might start by articulating the organization's vision and values and then action plans to achieve the vision while adhering to those values.
In addition, the focus of the planning activities is often different between for-profits and nonprofits. Nonprofits tend to focus more on matters of board development, fundraising and volunteer management. For-profits tend to focus more on activities to maximize profit.
More information on Strategic Planning is available at:
The NPCA Board has endorsed this Strategic Action Plan for 2004-2011. This plan, which is available in Power Point format here, places particular emphasis on improving what NPCA offers its members and strengthening NPCA's relationship with its group affiliates. The plan is designed in three phases:
Phase I: 2004, a plan for stabilization;
Phase II: 2005-2008, a plan for growth;
Phase III: 2009-2011, a plan for the future (leveraging the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Peace Corps community.
The Strategic Action Plan will be revised and updated as needed, with regular reporting on the progress being made. Individuals wishing to offer comments on the plan are welcome to send them to NPCA President Kevin Quigley at mailto:president@rpcv.org or leave your comments below.
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