Build your next chapter
Having a clear sense of where you’re heading and what you want to accomplish over time, alongside a clear understanding of your culture and values, can help you make day-to-day decisions in a way that moves you forward authentically toward the organization you’re becoming.
Neighborhood listening
You might know how you view yourselves, but how does the neighborhood view you? Do you know? What opportunities for partnership are you missing, or opportunities for growth?
Community partners might have feedback that you need to hear and which might directly affect any project you are considering. Including your neighborhood or neighborhood partners from the ground up can be important in future success. By engaging a third party in neighborhood listening, individuals will speak more honestly to a third party than to one who is perceived to have potential power over an organization’s day to day.
Steps
→ Review and mapping of existing partnerships
→ Receive consent for interviews
→ Organize community meetings and/or interviews with leaders
→ Facilitate organization’s conversations with community
Deliverables
→ Understanding of community perception
→ Willingness to engage in otherwise unturned partnerships
→ Sharing of projects
→ Collaboration
Tools
→ Town hall meetings
→ Interviews
→ Surveys
Strategic planning
Using the strategic filter, and relying on your core values, we’ll work with you to develop a strategic plan. Later in the process you can hone in on the key areas for the plan, which could include:
→ Identity—how you understand yourself and how are you perceived
→ Structure—how you are organized and how you operate
→ Staffing—who is doing the work and how do they work together
→ Communications—what’s your message, who’s receiving it, when and how
→ Finance and budgeting—your approach to money and how it relates to your values and priorities
→ Fundraising and development—how you fund and sustain your community and pursue your vision
→ Partnerships—who you’re working with or might benefit from working with.
