1. STRATEGIC PLANNING or If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going You’re Bound to End Up Someplace Else

2. DUTIES OF A BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Duty of Care ▪ Perform responsibilities in good faith ▪ Adopt policies for effective oversight ▪ Attend board meetings ▪ Act in an independent manner ▪ Exercise independent judgment ▪ Accordance with exempt purpose

3. DUTIES OF A BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Duty of Loyalty ▪ Act in the best interest of the program ▪ Benefit the program (not the directors) ▪ Refrain from conflict of interest ▪ Have and follow a conflict of interest policy

4. DUTY OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Duty of Obedience ▪ Faithful to the mission ▪ Honor public trust ▪ Behave and act in a manner consistent with goals

5. Strategic Planning for Board of Directors ▪ Key Roles of a Board ▪ Sets organizational direction ▪ Provides oversight ▪ Ensures necessary resources ▪ Prepares a plan to secure financial base ▪ Develops goals ▪ Assesses needs to meet goals

6. IN PLACE FIRST………………………..

7. CORE VALUES those things important to the organization glue what we stand for

8. VISION ▪ Compatible with the Core Values ▪ Inspirational ▪ Tells us where we want to go ▪ Framework for strategic planning

9. MISSION ▪ Reason for existence ▪ Tells who we serve and how we serve the who ▪ Essence of the organization ▪ Written by the stakeholders in their own language

10. What’s Wrong with this : ▪ Core Values- good things, nice things, kind things ▪ Vision- to do good things ▪ Mission- help kids who don’t have good things ▪ LRP- to do even more good things ▪ SP- get money and help

11. BLUE SKY GREEN VALLEY CASA LIST THE CORE VALUES WRITE A VISION STATEMENT COMPOSE A MISSION STATEMENT DEVELOP A LONG RANGE PLAN CREATE A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR FIVE YEARS

12. Strategic Planning ▪ Alice: Which way should I go? ▪ Cheshire Cat: That depends on where you are going. ▪ Alice: I don’t know where I’m going. ▪ Cheshire Cat: Then it doesn’t matter which way you go. Lewis Carroll 1892 ▪ Through the Looking Glass

13. What is it…..a Strategic Plan ▪ Written form of a process that sets out the agreement relative to a desired outcome. ▪ It is (for CASA organizations) issues-based. ▪ It helps the organization respond appropriately to a dynamic (not static) organizational environment within the framework of its own resources.

14. Why…………do organizations have SP ▪ A Strategic Plan allows an organization to initiate activities and initiate influence. ▪ It allows the organization to be proactive rather than reactive. ▪ It allows the organization to be in charge of its own destiny.

15. What it Ain’t…… ▪ Not forecasting ▪ Not a simple application of quantitative techniques ▪ Not just good intentions ▪ Not a way to eliminate risk ▪ Not a one person job ▪ Not written in stone but cast in sculptured sand

16. Elements of a SP ▪ Measureable goals ▪ Prioritized objectives ▪ Plan of action with Timeframes

17. Your SP needs to….. ▪ Articulate your organization’s GOALS ▪ Set forth the necessary actions (Plan of Action) that are practical and sustainable ▪ Reflect a method of assessment

18. AUDIT AND ANALYSIS Audit First…. Use the S W O T exercise Analyze Last…. Are we on Target. Do we adapt to change. Quarterly or Semi Annual Written Reports Quarterly Meetings with Scorecard Discussion

19. Long Range Plan versus Strategic Planning ▪ Long Range: Looks well into the future (10+); assumes present knowledge over future needs and conditions; builds for the future. ▪ Strategic: Structured to shorter term (1-5); assumes ability to respond to changing environment; creative process; can be transformed into an operating plan.

20. STRATEGIC INITIATIVE I: Financial Support and Development ▪ GOAL: to develop and increase a broad band of financial support through individual and community- based groups, private grant and foundation resources, endowments, federal and state grants leading to financial independence and maintenance of financial stability of Blue Sky and Green Valley.

21. SI Financial Goal: Objectives ▪ Determine the cost per child per day for services provided ▪ Research, select and retain independent audit firm ▪ Develop financial plan to eliminate reliance on state or federal funding ▪ Develop financial plan to reduce reliance on state or federal funding

22. SI Financial Goal continued ▪ Establish an investment account and manager ▪ Establish a funds development committee ▪ Increase grant money by 25% each year ▪ Develop and implement an annual donor “ask” letter ▪ Design and execute an annual “signature” event ▪ Hire a part time business manager

23. SI Financial Goal continued Plan of Action ▪ Pick one of the 3 Objectives below: ▪ Research, select and retain an audit firm ▪ Establish a funds development committee ▪ Develop and implement an annual ask letter ▪ Write a Plan of Action (the detailed steps) that will accomplish the Objective

24. Sharing of Plans of Action: Group Exercise ▪ Clearly Stated ▪ Make Sense ▪ Time Frame Achievable ▪ Do-able (Resources available)

25. The End