Section 3


RESOURCES

This section contains information on print resources available through the SABES library system and online resources that can help partnerships in strategic planning & strengthening and expanding their partnerships.

Strategic Planning

Online Resources

The Alliance for Nonprofit Management. http://www.allianceonline.org/FAQ/strategic_planning/ You will find many of your questions about strategic planning and answers to the following questions in this FAQ section of the Alliance for Nonprofit Management website. FAQs include “What do I need to know before I start the planning process?” and “What are the individual roles in a planning process?”

Building Communities together: A strategic planning guide. http://www.hud.gov/nofa/ez/stratpln.pdf The full text of this 85 page book is online. This Guide sets forth sound principles and alternative ways to approach the process of strategic planning. Chapter titles include “Understanding the Basics of Strategic Planning” and “Getting Down to Business—Designing the Strategic Plan.” The guide is a product of the Empowerment Zone/ Enterprise Community EZ/EC Initiative of the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, found on the web at http://www.hud.gov.

Community Tool Box: Part D. Chapters 8-12. http://ctb.ukans.edu/tools/en/tools_toc.htm#partD This area of the toolbox focuses on strategic planning. Sections include an overview of strategic planning, creating objectives, and developing an action plan. The strategies, techniques, and case studies are for and about communities and coalitions.

Education Leadership Tool Kit. http://www.nsba.org/sbot/toolkit This website, a project of the National School Boards Foundation, includes tips and pointers on strategic planning and information regarding leadership that can be valuable to a community planning coordinator.

Free Management Library. http://www.mapnp.org/library/ Hosted by the Management Assistance Program, this is a complete, highly integrated library for nonprofits and for-profits that covers 72 popular categories of topics. Of special interest is the extensive section on strategic planning. The information on all phases of strategic planning is concise, and many entries are gateways to additional information.

Government of Canada Publications. http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/. To locate specific documents for ordering or URL information you can search the catalogue. Two documents of special interest are -
Planning for Change. http://dsp-psd.communication.gc.ca/ Collection/EN1-35-3-2001E.pdf This document outlines steps and activities that partnerships can use in a strategic planning process. It also provides clear examples of goals, objectives, and mission and vision statements.

Nonprofit Genie by the California Management Assistance Project. http://search.genie.org/genie/ans_result.lasso?cat=Strategic+Planning The Strategic Planning FAQs section covers the topic beginning with “Why Plan?” and includes information on mission statements, content of strategic plans and tips to ensure a successful planning process.

Strategic Planning in Smaller Nonprofit Organizations: A Practical Guide for the Process. http://www.wmich.edu/nonprofit/guide7.htm This short guide is designed to help board members and the staff of smaller nonprofit organizations develop strategic plans that can help them strengthen and sustain their organization's achievements. This guide was developed as part of a Nonprofit Capacity Building Project funded by W.K. Kellogg Foundation Youth Initiative Partnerships.

Strategic Planning Manual. http://www.uwex.edu/li/learner/spmanual.pdf This manual from the University of Wisconsin Extension Service is a description of a model for strategic planning in Nonprofit and Public Sector Organizations. The descriptions of the seven steps in the model include worksheets, examples and the reasons for each step.


Print Resources

Allison, Michael & Jude Kaye. (1997). Strategic Planning for Nonprofit Organizations: A Practical Guide and Workbook. San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Angelica, Emil. (2001). The Wilder Nonprofit Field Guide to Crafting Effective Mission and Vision Statements. St. Paul, MN: Wilder Foundation.

Barry, Bryan. (1997). Strategic Planning Workbook for Nonprofit Organizations. St. Paul, MN: Amherst H. Wilder Foundation. Tel: (800) 274-6024.

Bryson, John & Farnum Alston. (1995). Creating and Implementing Your Strategic Plan: A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations. Revised edition. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. An updated companion to John M. Bryson's Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, this hands-on workbook is a step-by-step guide to conducting strategic planning in public and nonprofit organizations.

Chynoweth, Judith. (1994). A Guide to Community Based Collaborative Strategic Planning. Council of Governors' Policy Advisors, Danforth Foundation. [Out-of-print. ISBN 0934842639].

Hancock, T. (1994). Guide for Vision Workshops. Indianapolis, IN: Institute of Action Research for Community Health/Indiana University.

National Civic League. (1996). The Community Visioning and Strategic Handbook. This handbook describes the rationale behind the community visioning process and ways to go about doing it. Contact the National Civic League, 1445 Market Street, Suite 300, Denver, CO 80202; Tel: (800) 223-6004.

Strengthening & Expanding Partnerships

Online Resources

Community Partners, Inc. http://www.compartners.org/
Community Partners, Inc.’s “Community Solutions” online resources include a list of coalition building tip sheets for programs interested in developing and sustaining community-based partnerships. The tip sheets offer advice for groups at different stages of the coalition building process, including the principles of coalition success, stages of development in community coalitions, sustainability and evaluation of coalitions, barriers to coalition-building and the “care and feeding of coalition leaders.”

Community Toolbox. http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu
The Community Toolbox is a comprehensive guide to community planning and development prepared by the University of Kansas Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development. In its over 5,000 pages, the Community Toolbox offers advice in sections on promoting interest and participation, developing a strategic plan, leadership, implementing promising community interventions, generating and managing resources for the initiative and many more.

Community Partnerships for Adult Learning. Office of Vocational and Adult Education, USDOE. http://www.c-pal.net/index.html This website is designed to provide information, announcements and new resources to foster successful community partnerships. It includes “how to guides”, and links to reports, journals and websites. Holyoke JUNTOS will be featured, among 12 model partnerships nationally, under Partnership Profiles.
Leader to Leader Institute (formerly the Drucker Foundation). http://www.pfdf.org/ Of special interest on this website is Meeting the Collaboration Challenge: Developing Strategic Alliances Between Nonprofit Organizations and Businesses. http://www.pfdf.org/collaboration/challenge/ordering-options.html The workbook, which can be read online or downloaded, suggests planning your work in four phases and includes worksheets to chart your course during each phase.

National Adult Literacy Database of Canada. Partnership Manual. http://www.nald.ca/clr/partner/contents.htm This section of the National Adult Literacy Database of Canada, while specifically targeting family literacy, is a valuable resource for information about building and maintaining partnerships. The objective of this manual is to establish a context for community partnerships, in order to provide an understanding of the benefits, issues, and challenges that are attached to forming partnerships. It also contains practical, useful information on building community partnerships from the ground up.


Print Resources

Austin, James. (2000). The Collaboration Challenge: How Nonprofits and Businesses Succeed through Strategic Alliances. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Avery, M., Auvine, B., Streibel, B., Weiss, L. (1999). Building United Judgment: a Handbook for Consensus Decision Making. Madison, WI: Center for Conflict Resolution.

Ayre, Darvin, Gruffie Clough, & Tyler Norris. Facilitating Community Change. Contact: Grove Consultants Int’l, P.O. Box 29391, San Francisco, CA 94129-0391. [http://www.grove.com] This book contains exercises and checklists for partnership development and includes tools for creating a community vision and developing action plans.

Berkowitz, William. (1999). The Spirit of the Coalition. Amherst, MA: AHEC/Community Partners. Includes sections on starting, promoting, supporting coalitions, and maintaining coalitions. Case studies are based on the experience of Massachusetts coalitions. From the Ground Up! By Gillian Kaye and Tom Wolff is the companion workbook to The Spirit of the Coalition. Contact: Community Partners, Inc., 24 South Prospect St, Amherst, MA 01002. Tel: (413) 253-4283. Email: http://www.compartners.org/.

Fujishin, Randy. (1997). Discovering the Leader Within: Running Small Groups Successfully. San Francisco, CA: Acada Books.

Kaner, Sam, Lenny Lind, Catherine Toldi, & Sarah Fisk. (1996). Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making. Stony Creek, CT: New Society Publishers, Ltd.

Lippincott, Sharon. (1999). Meetings: Do’s, Don’ts and Donuts: The Complete Handbook for Successful Meetings. [2nd edition, rev.]. Pittsburgh, PA: Lighthouse Point Press.

Moore, Allen & Feldt, James. (1993). Facilitating Community and Decision-Making Groups (Professional Practices in Adult Education and Human Resource Development). Melbourne, Florida: Krieger Publishing.

RoAne, Susan. (1988). How to Work a Room: Learning the Strategies of Savvy Socializing for Business and Personal Success. New York: Warner Books.

Stout, Linda & Howard Zinn. (1997). Bridging the Class Divide and Other Lessons for Grassroots Organizing. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.