Work with Nicole: Strategic Planning

Organizational sustainability is more than about funding. When an organization finds itself faced with burnout, low capacity, high turnover rates, weak organizational or programmatic memory, it leads to overwhelm and lack of consistency.

Is your organization a great place for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), women, and gender expansive people to work? Is your board’s composition reflective of the diversity of your staff and the communities you serve?

Can your program survive tomorrow if it were to lose major funding? What will your program look like years from now? How does your programming fit into the overall organization goals? What aspects of your program have been most effective and critical to the promotion of raising your voice for women, girls and gender expansive youth of color? Which programming components can be sustained with minimal or maximum financial and human resources?

Whether it’s organization-wide or program-specific, having a strategic plan is a proactive solution for sustainability, regardless of what funding streams come in (or stop).

Creating an organization-wide or program-specific sustainability plan is more than possible, and with expert guidance by Nicole Clark Consulting, your organization will turn its vision from words on paper to a plan that comes to life.

With Nicole Clark Consulting, your organization can:

  • Establishes a direction for your organization and programming

  • Ensure values alignment across all aspects of your organization, including processes, policies, or programs

  • Establish accountability measures for keeping staff recruitment, stakeholder engagement, programs values aligned 

  • Identify a process for establishing anti-racist decision-making policies and practices

  • Establish monitoring, evaluation, and data dissemination processes

Choose from four customizable formats

  • Client Relationship (You hire Nicole to lead project development and activity implementation)

  • Partnership (You want to bid on a project with Nicole, your proposal won and you want Nicole to co-lead, or you’ve developed a project and want Nicole to co-lead)

  • Capacity Building (You want to build staff capacity to implement your process. Your staff will be responsible for activity implementation)

  • Office hours (You already have the key components of your project developed, and want Nicole to review and provide expedited, actionable feedback)

Sample Strategic Planning Services

  • Kick-off meeting with leadership + key stakeholders

  • Current strategic planning or program curriculum document analysis + action planning

  • Stakeholder visioning facilitation

  • SOAR analysis and findings facilitation

  • Strategic planning or program design retreat facilitation

  • Data sense making facilitation

  • Strategic plan or program design report development

  • Staff or stakeholder feedback analysis

  • Strategic plan or program design final reporting

To hire Nicole for your strategic planning or program sustainability process, please fill out the client/partner request form.