NESC helps nonprofits create business and strategic plans to sharpen focus and establish intermediate and long-range goals. Effective strategic plans set priorities, allocate resources, identify new opportunities, and establish action plans with timetables for reaching each strategic objective.
All nonprofits should have strategic plans and review them often to determine how objectives are being reached (or not). These reviews provide occasions for feedback from various stakeholders, including donors, clients, management and staff.
- For a New York arts organization concerned that it was lacking direction, the NESC team of veteran strategic planners assisted in designing a plan that established a vision, set goals and subsequently served as a basis for board development and fundraising.
- For a Manhattan-based national family services organization seeking help in adjusting to a new operating environment, NESC specialists thoroughly reviewed the group's history and operations, and then helped to craft a plan with a strong marketing component, adapting the group's classic mission to today's realities.
- For a Rockland County conservancy faced with rising costs and facilities in need of major renovation, NESC analyzed recent trends and projections for the future of educational and adventure camping for inner-city youth, concluding that the future importance of the camping experience for this age group was sufficiently strong to warrant investing in major capital improvements.
- For a New Jersey-based national healthcare educational institute for medical professionals, NESC developed a business plan focusing on a potential new service/revenue area that its client had piloted in several venues. NESC helped research the market, developed a pro forma budget, analyzed the implementation issues and recommended an implementation plan.
- For a Long Island service agency, NESC devised a business plan to develop a new and consistent income stream which would capitalize on the unique capabilities of the agency's IT consulting services.
- For a Connecticut environmental education organization seeking to ensure its long-term viability, NESC offered to assist the client to achieve its short- and long-term goals through a process of strategic planning and board retreat.
