Strategic Planning
Reaffirms the connection between your programs, mission, vision, and values in today's world.
Designed for nonprofit organizations that want to update their strategic plan.
What you can expect from Strategic Planning
Plan the next phase of your journey with clarity.
You can’t plan for the future without a strong, shared vision. Our strategic planning service helps nonprofits, define their direction and focus as they look ahead. Like any planning process, strategic planning allows teams to see shifts in what is possible in the coming years.
Whether you’re creating a new organizational strategy or aligning existing efforts with your equity commitments, we guide you through a collaborative process that results in a clear, actionable, and inspiring plan.
We Help You:
Reaffirm your mission, vision, and values
Translate your team’s vision into measurable objectives and strategies
Engage your constituents in authentic ways
Stamey Street approaches strategic planning by centering your existing commitments while making adjustments for the current and future landscape. We value the participation of your staff, members, partners, and funders to ensure the final product reflects a shared knowledge, experience, and enthusiasm for your work.
Our approach:
Recognizes that shorter timeframes work best in uncertain times
Reviews current systems to ensure they support new or updated goals
Tests the viability of proposed new initiatives
Explores the sustainability of programs and activities
Offers a clear implementation plan for next steps
Uses equity as an organizational practice
What to expect:
Discovery Process: Understand your mission, goals, context, and scope.
Project Organization: Accessible work product, progress reports, and regular updates.
Data Gathering: Launch surveys, interviews, focus groups, and document reviews.
Analysis and Recommendations: Develop findings and identify priorities for action.
Debrief and Strategy Session: Review results together, deliver final plan.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Great question. Clients have several options when putting together a strategic planning engagement. If it's been at least 5 years since your last strategic plan, you're putting together a new one for where you are today. You can expect to spend from $35,000- $50,000 for a six to eight-month planning process. That fee includes the following:
Biweekly meetings
Project tracking and management
Staff and partner feedback
2-day planning retreat
Landscape analysis
Written plan with supporting documents
Implementation plan
Review of internal systems
This fee may increase depending on the data collection method for staff and partner feedback. For example, surveys are a lower-cost method compared to individual interviews or focus groups. In-person focus groups warrant a higher price because they are the most labor-intensive of the data collection methods Stamey Street offers.
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Our process is to meet at least 2 times a month. We do this to keep the project moving and to meet timelines for our team and the client. We schedule project meetings at the beginning of the engagement. There is always flexibility in scheduling. We recognize that everyone is working with limited time. We'll always check in before scheduled meetings. If we agree that a meeting is not needed, then we cancel. It's always easier to cancel a meeting than to schedule one at the last minute.
“We are grateful to Dr. Joanna Shoffner Scott of Stamey Street Consulting Group for understanding our needs and working with us to create tools that we hope helps shape a workplace that works for everyone.”
— J.P., a Stamey Street client
Plans and processes go together.
Let’s talk how to start your strategic planning process.