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Strategy & strategic planning

Mid-term strategy review for nonprofits

Signs you need a mid-term review

You are halfway through your strategic period but have no structured way to assess whether you are on track or need to course-correct.

What you'll achieve

An honest, evidence-based assessment of where you stand against your strategy, with clear recommendations for the second half.

How a Nonprofit Builder consultant helps

  • Review your results data, interview key stakeholders, and facilitate a reflective session with leadership to agree on adjustments.

Key deliverables

  • Mid-term review report, progress scorecard, recommendations memo, updated priorities for the remaining period.

From the resource library

Free tools and guides to get started

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    Agile Strategy Canvas

    A one-page canvas that holds an organisation's whole strategy in 3 layers. Strategic Direction covers vision, mission, core strategic insight, a big hairy audacious goal, economic drivers and values. Strategic Signals records internal insights and external opportunities and threats. Strategic Sprints lists an ideas backlog, active time-boxed sprints and completed sprints with what was learned. Teams update it every quarter as conditions change.

    EmergingTool or templateFreeNonprofit Builder tool
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    The Matrix Map

    An article setting out a 4-step method for judging programmes and fundraising activities on both mission impact and profitability. Teams list every business line, score impact on a 1 to 4 scale, work out whether each line makes a surplus or needs a subsidy, then plot the results on a grid. The 4 quadrants, Stars, Hearts, Money Trees and Stop Signs, guide what to grow, contain, nurture or close.

    ClassicTool or templateFree