Map and assess strategic risks
When your board asks about the top risks to your strategy, you don't have a structured or comprehensive answer.
What you'll achieve
We help you identify potential threats to your goals--external, operational, or reputational--and assess their likelihood and impact.
How a Nonprofit Builder consultant helps
- Identify the strategic risks most relevant to your context, assess their likelihood and impact with your leadership and board, and build a practical framework for monitoring and response.
Key deliverables
- Strategic risk register, risk assessment workshop, prioritised mitigation actions, risk heatmap, guidance on review and board reporting.
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Free tools and guides to get started
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Scenario Planning for Nonprofits
A worksheet toolkit that helps nonprofit leaders plan under uncertainty. Teams first agree guiding principles, then work through 4 steps: identify key drivers of programmes, operations and funding at risk; build best, moderate and worst-case scenarios and model their effect on revenue; create a portfolio of actions with costs or savings; and set measurable trigger points that tell them when to act. Leadership teams fill it in together.
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Strategic planning: a toolkit for small NGOs
A short, step-by-step strategic planning toolkit for small NGOs, including those that fund partners and those that work directly with communities. It is one of 5 toolkits from INTRAC's Strengthening Small Organisations with Big Ambitions project (2021 to 2022), funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. It comes as a PDF and as a lighter online version for low-bandwidth and mobile users. It is licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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