Kate Damiral

Hi there

NCVO’s Strategy and Impact Team has just published a new introductory guide to strategic planning.

In the guide, we propose a five-stage strategic planning process:

1. Get ready – prepare by deciding on your process and timescales.
2. Clarify your organisation’s purpose – revisit vision, mission, values, outcomes, knowledge of user need.
3. Open up options and choices – look internally and out.
4. Make decisions – refining options and priorities.
5. Communicate, implement and review.

It’...

The Strategy and Impact Team at NCVO has produced an introductory guide to change management for organisations in our sector, ‘From Here to There: Managing change in third sector organisations’.

We decided to write this guide because managers in the third sector often face particular challenges such as stakeholders with very different motivations to those in the private or public sectors, as well as – of course – the need to manage short-term funding cycles and, for many, shifting...