PHDE656 Strategic Planning (3 cr.)

This course focuses on designing and implementing the strategic planning process for a nonprofit organization. Students learn about the key elements of strategic planning including data gathering, setting goals and objectives, evaluating progress against the plan and securing resources to fund the plan.  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.    
5. Define the importance and process of creating a plan to secure gifts in support of the plan.