Strategic Planning is a comprehensive process for determining what a community, business or program should become and how to best achieve that goal. It is a systematic process that appraises the full potential of a community and explicitly links the organization or program’s objectives to the actions and resources required to achieve them.

In more than twenty-five years, the The National Center for Community Strategies’  seasoned strategic planning experts have helped many different organizations develop comprehensive, reality-based, accountable, action-oriented strategic plans across many varied industries and business situations.

• We assist communities, public and corporate leaders, stakeholders, residents and the users of community services in developing a  strategic planning process that identifies strategies that will best enable a community to advance its mission, and to serve its purpose.
• We help to start the process by identifying the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, in what is commonly called a “SWOT” analysis, by accessing external as well as internal factors that are important.
• We help to identify measurable goals, approve priorities for implementation, and also commit to revisiting the community’s strategies on an ongoing basis as internal and external environments change.
• We also help to visualize a “theory of change” and “what success will look like” – how to get there, and what resources it will take to get there.