What does the future look like for your work and programs?
Are you looking for ways to slow the fundraising treadmill?
How can you create a strong, sustainable future?
JVA’s planning services can help you define the vision and create the plans to get you there. From an organizational strategic plan for realizing new opportunities to a business plan for developing an infrastructure to support these opportunities, JVA will work with you to design, lead and support a planning process that meets your needs. JVA will help you:
- Explore your current reality and understand its implications for your future
- Articulate your vision for success
- Determine short and long-term goals and objectives
- Create practical implementation plans to execute your strategy
- Develop strategic alliances and mergers to support your work
We will create a customized approach to get the results you need. Because of our work in the areas of planning, fundraising, implementing and evaluating, we have a thorough understanding of how to help you achieve your goals. We will work with you to utilize research, assessments and other information to support informed and strategic decision-making. Our facilitative consulting approach successfully brings together stakeholders and builds consensus. JVA will not simply record your process, but will bring our expertise, experience and industry best practices to support you in developing a meaningful strategy.
Our specific services include:
- Strategic planning: see above
- Business planning services: JVA will lead your organization through a process to explore, develop and support a new social enterprise opportunity or refine a current earned income venture. We will partner with you to:
- Assess your organization and its potential for success
- Map your assets and strengths
- Conduct a feasibility study for new ideas
- Explore and articulate your business and collaboration opportunity(ies)
- Research markets, best practices, national models and competitors
- Develop a comprehensive business plan including budgets and financial projections
- Create a marketing plan for your venture
- Update past business plans to represent your current environment
- Strategic alliances and mergers: Are you thinking about joining forces with another nonprofit, but are concerned about community buy-in and long-term consequences? Whether you want to collaborate, join programs or undertake a formal merger, JVA will work with you and your strategic partners to develop a non-threatening, safe process within which you can explore the possibilities and opportunities available to you. Our exploration process allows interested parties to hold discussions based on mutual interests rather than personal positions; easing tensions for everyone involved.
- The National Center for Social Entrepreneurs (NCSE) social enterprise training: As a partner with The National Center for Social Entrepreneurs, JVA offers social enterprise training to nonprofits in Colorado and the intermountain west. Through support from grantmakers, philanthropists and socially responsible businesses, nonprofits develop a self-created business plan and gain the knowledge of how to market and run their enterprise. This comprehensive, eight-to-ten month process enables nonprofits to move to a whole new level of sustainability and self-sufficiency while concurrently reducing their overall levels of dependence on donors.
Contact JVA today to start planning a successful future.
