Sow, Grow, Lead: Strategic Planning for Nonprofit Executives
Schedule
Thu Jun 06 2024 at 11:30 am to 01:30 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Ukiah Valley Conference Center | Ukiah, CA
About this Event
Are you excited about the thought of strategic planning–or are you dreading the process, wary of the time and energy it will take and skeptical of the results it will produce? Nonprofit organizations spend thousands of dollars and countless hours of board and staff time to produce strategic plans that can be stale, uninspiring, and hard to implement. When you feel the pressure to plan a retreat and produce the end document you may be tempted to rush through the early steps of the process. But when you don’t gather the necessary information about the internal functioning of your organization and the external environment in which you operate, you risk producing a plan that fails to inspire staff, set your organization apart from its competitors, or adequately respond to a rapidly changing environment. Learn how to get strategic planning right from the start by conducting internal and external scans that are streamlined, inclusive, and thought-provoking.
This interactive workshop will help you prepare for your own planning process and can be even more powerful when attended by multiple members of a team or committee. Join us to discover how taking a careful, sequential approach can make the strategic planning process faster, more powerful, more fun, and easier to translate into concrete action steps that are embraced at every level of your organization.
Christine Rodrigues has more than twenty-five years of experience in nonprofit and corporate management, strategic planning, and program development. As the CEO of R&P Associates LLC, she provides a variety of strategy, marketing, and executive support services to nonprofit organizations.
In 2019 Christine partnered with the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability to facilitate an 11-month planning process for the City of San Francisco’s Department of Disability and Adult Services to assess the needs and desires of local people with disabilities and provide a road map for how the city will choose partners and develop programming for the nation’s first city-run center devoted to disability culture. You can find the final report on the city’s website at https://www.sfhsa.org/file/10046.
Christine has facilitated successful strategic planning processes for other nonprofits that include Side by Side, The Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability, The Grateful Garment Project, Friends of Ruwenzori Foundation, Warriors at Ease, the Ukiah Garden Club, and the Health Leadership Network of Lake County. Before starting her consulting business, Christine was the Director of SparkPoint Marin, a United Way-funded financial empowerment program for low-income people in the Bay Area. In addition to quadrupling the size of the Marin location in just three years, she co-developed the training and certification program for SparkPoint partner staff throughout the seven-county region.
Christine has also served as Director of Development for three large non-profit organizations, where she developed a track record for integrating brand messaging with individual fundraising campaigns and developing the back-end technology and operational systems to ensure sustained giving. Christine earned an MBA from the Anderson School of Business at University of California, Los Angeles, and a BA in Communications from The Pennsylvania State University, University Park. She is currently a member of the Ukiah Natural Foods Co-Op Board of Directors and was formerly the Board President of Development Executives Roundtable in San Francisco.
Where is it happening?
Ukiah Valley Conference Center, 200 South School Street, Ukiah, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 15.00
