LAUNCH Program Guide

Overview

LAUNCH is a unique strategic planning program for leaders of small nonprofits that do not have a preexisting strategic plan or they want to completely start a strategic planning process from scratch. In this program you and your team will:

  • Create a new strategic plan that will help lead to key benefits such as greater revenue, more focused programs, and a more effective board

  • Build your organizational muscle to regularly track and revise your plan

  • Benefit from one-of-a-kind strategic planning software that significantly simplifies the process of creating, measuring, and tracking the execution of your strategic plan 

  • Develop a set of valuable skills that will impact you and your organization for years

The program is backed by a money-back guarantee. 

What You Get

  • A ten-week strategic planning training program 

  • Access to a proven four-step strategic planning curriculum, including numerous videos, worksheets, and assessments

  • Four Zoom-based consulting sessions with an experienced strategic planning consultant to guide you

  • An easy-to-implement strategic plan

  • A documented process for ensuring that your plan gets executed

  • A one-year subscription to Causey strategic planning software


Fees

$2,900

 

Who is Involved

A Mission Met consultant will guide 1-3 of your organization’s leaders through a strategic planning training and plan creation program. These leaders will, in turn, use the program materials and the consultant’s guidance to lead their staff and/or board through their organization’s process for creating a new plan. 

 

Ten-Week Timeline: Overview

Weeks 1 - 2

  • Orientation

  • Championing the Overall Process

  • Setting up an Organizational Assessment

Weeks 3-4

  • Conducting an Organizational Assessment

  • Preparing to Create a Plan

Weeks 5-8

  • Creating a Draft Plan

Weeks 9-10

  • Finalizing Plan and the Process for Executing It

Ten-Week Timeline: Details

Orientation to CAPE, Understanding Roles, Conducting Assessment

Week 1

  • Get Access to Causey Software

  • Watch Brief Videos

    • Welcome and Orientation

    • The Simple Logic of Strategic Planning

    • The CAPE Cycle

    • Role of Champions

  • Create Your Planning Calendar

  • Take the Mission Met Bio Online Assessment

Week 2

  • Watch Brief Videos

    • Causey Software Overview

    • Two-part Assessment Process

  • [Meeting] Attend First Zoom Session with Consultant

    • Review orientation information

    • Q & A

  • Distribute Surveys to Staff and Board as Needed

  • Schedule Planning Meeting with Staff and Board During Week 8

Learning from Assessment and Preparing to Create Plan

Week 3

  • Watch Brief Videos

  • Interpreting Assessment Results

  • Your Two-part Plan

  • Co-champions Discuss Their Own Organizational Assessment

Week 4

Co-champions Continue to Discuss Their Own Organizational Assessment

  • Formal Assessment Process of Staff and Board Concludes

  • [Meeting] Attend Second Zoom Session with Consultant

    • Review the assessment process

    • Prepare for creating draft plan

Creating Draft Plan

Week 5

  • Review and analyze assessment results

  • Complete assessment analysis worksheet

Week 6

  • Watch Brief Videos

    • Creating Your Plan In Causey

    • Goal Setting

    • Mission and Vision Statements

  • Create draft plan in Causey

Week 7

  • [Meeting] Attend Third Zoom Session with Consultant

    • Review the draft plan

    • Prepare for presentation to staff and board

Week 8

  • Present draft plan to staff and board and get feedback

Finalizing Plan and putting Execution Process in Place

Week 9

  • Finalize plan based on staff and board feedback

  • Watch Brief Video on Executing Your Plan

Week 10

  • [Meeting] Attend Final Zoom Session with Consultant

    • Review finalized plan

    • Ensure process is in place for executing plan