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Strategic Planning for Not-for-Profit Organizations
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Strategic Planning for Not-for-Profit Organizations

by Robert E Stevens, David L Loudon, R Migliore, Stanley G Williamson
June 2013
Beginner
212 pages
4h 14m
English
Routledge
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Chapter 4

Situation Analysis and Assumptions

You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke

English Statesman

A well-defined mission serves as a constant reminder of the need to look outside the organization not only for “customers” but also for measures of success.

Peter Drucker

Management Expert

We can no longer assume we know what our various constituencies need and want.

Sunshine Janda Overkamp

Senior Vice President, United Way of America

If you think what exists today is permanent and forever true, you inevitably get your head handed to you.

John Reed

Chairman, Citicorp

This chapter discusses the need to analyze the situation confronting the not-for-profit and to identify any assumptions on which the strategic plan will be based. ...

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