Beyond Strategic Planning: Planning for Community Impact!

Beyond Strategic Planning: Planning for Community Impact!
Tuesday, May 23 | 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Interactive Webinar

Presented by: Hildy Gottlieb, Co-Founder & Chief Boundary Pusher, Creating the Future

Offered in Partnership with: Creating the Future

Planning should help your organization create what is possible for your community.

But traditional strategic planning was never intended for that. In fact, traditional strategic planning is based on a model developed by the military, designed for gaining strategic advantage over an enemy to create short-term gains (e.g., win a battle – or, in business terms, increase profits). This is actually the opposite of what is needed to create long-term, systemic, community change.

So, how do we…

• Get beyond 2-year plans aimed at incremental change?
• Get our community engaged in creating what is possible?
• Link arms with other organizations doing similar work, to accomplish something that none of us can do on our own?

This is what Community Impact Planning is all about!

Whether your work focuses on the arts, the environment, economic justice, racial equity, housing, education, mental health, or other areas of community benefit, this is the planning process that will finally move the needle. It is designed intentionally for creating the most powerful, long-term, systemic community improvement possible. Indeed, that is why most of our organizations exist in the first place!

If you’re ready for a new way of planning, join PANO and Creating the Future for this unique learning opportunity that will help us create the sweeping, visionary community change that so many of us dream of.

Together, let’s go beyond strategic planning!

What You’ll Learn:

• How to respond to your community’s current needs while simultaneously taking steps towards long-term systemic change
• Steps you can take to avoid unintended circumstances
• Who to include in your planning – to make your planning as inclusive as possible
• When to gather data (hint: it’s NOT at the start of the plan!)
• How to ensure your plans are strengths-based (and why traditional strategic planning is weakness-based)
• How to budget and fund your plan
• How to move beyond incremental reactive plans (decreasing X by 5%) to plans that create a step-by-step path towards what is possible
• Why planning to overcome obstacles actually creates obstacles (and what to do instead)
• How to ensure there is capacity to implement the plan
• How to create a roadmap connecting today’s actions to the healthy, humane, equitable future you envision
• How to move beyond vision as a warm-up exercise, to establish your vision for your community as the achievable goal of the plan – turning your long-term vision for your community into short-term goals and objectives
• And much more!

How It Works and What You’ll Get:

How It Works

This program is set up as a “flipped classroom”. This means that all content will be provided in advance so that you will have time to absorb the material at your own pace and can join the live session prepared with questions, ideas for practical application, and items for discussion.

What You’ll Get

• About 90 minutes of video classes (to be viewed before the live session on May 23)
• Study guide with worksheets and thought-starters to help embed your learning
• Copies of key slides from the videos
• Additional readings
• 2 hours of live Q&A/discussion (this is what will happen on May 23)
• A recording of the Q&A in both video and audio-only formats (so you can listen while you drive, work out, cook dinner, etc!)
• The ability to ask quick questions of the faculty at Creating the Future FOREVER (applies to questions that can be answered in just a few minutes)

Registration Fees:
 

Single Login Ticket:

$45 per person for PANO Members | $90 per person for Not-Yet Members

Group Screening Ticket (4-10 individuals):
$145 per group for PANO Members | $290 per group for Not-Yet Members

This option makes the most sense when you have 4-10 individuals interested in viewing the webinar. For fewer than 4 attendees, a single login ticket for each person is the most cost-effective option. For more than 10 attendees, please email Christina at christina@pano.org to discuss options.

Materials & Login/Call-In Instructions:
Materials (PowerPoint and other handouts), along with instructions on how to login and call-in, will be emailed to attendees a few days prior to the date of the webinar. PANO uses Zoom as our webinar platform; you can familiarize yourself with Zoom and/or join a test meeting prior to these sessions.

Can’t attend? All registrants will receive a recording of the webinar following the live session!

About Creating the Future:

Creating the Future is a collection of people around the world, supporting each other in a grand experiment in systems change. CTF is on a mission to create systems change, so that the systems we encounter every day are creating conditions that advance everyone’s ability to thrive – creating a future that is different from our past, a world that works for everyone. Learn more here.

About the Facilitator:

Hildy Gottlieb, Co-Founder & Chief Boundary Pusher, Creating the Future

Hildy is a social scientist and asker of powerful questions. She is the co-founder and Chief Boundary Pusher at Creating the Future, the creator of the Catalytic Thinking Framework, and a strong advocate for the power we all have to change the systems we find ourselves in, by changing the questions we ask.