PHDE656 Strategic Planning (3 cr.)

This course focuses on designing and implementing the strategic planning process. The final course project challenges students to create a plan outlining how they would implement the strategic planning process within a nonprofit organization of their choice.  

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Articulate the role of planning in a nonprofit organization.
2. Create, orient, and manage an effective strategic planning team.
3. Implement the data-gathering, visioning, critical issues, goals, objectives and evaluation steps in a strategic planning process.
4. Identify how the completed plan would be communicated to stakeholders.