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Organizational Planning

Your roadmap to sustainable and meaningful community impact. 

With the heightened concern about funding instability, now is the time to assess funding streams, organizational goals, and program offerings to plan for an uncertain future. Innovative Funding Partners (IFP) can help address these concerns for your organization. IFP is a trusted partner, contributing an impressive track record of success bringing in revenue for organizations across a variety of sectors—success due not only to our substantial knowledge of funding sources and what attracts funders but also based on our relationship-building approach. Especially considering today’s chaotic funding climate, this gives us a significant edge when supporting and planning for your organization’s long-term sustainability and growth. 

IFP offers three types of organizational planning services, each of which is an essential component within the overall planning process, serving a distinct purpose in ensuring your organization's long-term success, day-to-day functionality, and resilience by:

  • increasing funding,
  • improving program effectiveness,
  • reinforcing strong community partnerships, and
  • providing for greater organizational stability and growth.

We excel in collaborating with diverse stakeholders to create plans that define and guide organizational goals, priorities, and actions, shaping future direction. Utilizing a structured, iterative, and data-driven approach to planning, we emphasize working alongside your organization at every step to produce a comprehensive vision that is not only achievable but worth achieving. 

 

Strategic Planning

IFP’s strategic planning services guide goals, priorities, and actions over the next few years. Effective strategic planning enables efficient operations, financial sustainability, maximized impact, and adaptability in a changing environment. Through strategic planning, IFP will:

  • Review and revise (if needed) your organization’s mission, vision, values, and actions.
  • Lead community engagement and receive input through focus groups, surveys, and more.
  • Conduct PEST (political, economic, social, and technology) and SOAR (strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and results) analyses to identify factors that may influence your organization.
  • Define strategic priorities and goals for the next several years with actionable objectives and approaches.
  • Define key performance indicators/metrics to achieve strategic priorities and goals.

 

Operational Planning

IFP’s operational planning focuses on creating an actionable plan for executing strategic goals on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis. Operational planning helps to sustain impact by ensuring efficient resource allocation, program delivery, staff coordination, and financial management. Through operational planning, IFP will:

  • Conduct an analysis of organization operations and define future needs.
  • Conduct market analysis and develop financial projections.
  • Review and assess your organization’s marketing and communications plan.
  • Expand and develop key outcome/performance measures to support evaluation.
  • Provide recommendations around partnerships to support operational growth.
  • Create a comprehensive fund development plan to support growth and expansion.

 

 Sustainability Planning

Through sustainability planning, IFP will assess current fundraising activities with a focus on developing or enhancing strategies to achieve financial sustainability through diversified, strategic funding streams. Our sustainability planning ensures the long-term financial health, social impact, and operational resilience of your organization. Through sustainability planning, IFP will:

  • Assess current funding sources and provide recommendations for a healthy revenue mix.
  • Review partnerships, considering alignment with funding opportunities and needs.
  • Provide recommendations on data collection/evaluation protocols to support fund development.
  • Conduct PEST (political, economic, social, and technology) and SOAR (strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and results) analyses focused on fund development.

 

Contact us today to learn more about how we can help your organization plan for long-term success, day-to-day functionality, and resilience.

 

 

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